A Special Blessing

We had a great Sunday school lesson on Sunday. Half way through, Will leans over to me and says "That's Steve Young." (Yes, the Steve Young was teaching our Sunday school class.) (Yes, Steve Young, the quarterback for the 49ers). I think Will was slightly star struck. Before class they asked if there were any visitors and we stood up and explained why were visiting. After the lesson Steve and his wife, Barb, came and asked us how our baby was doing. While conversing Will mentioned we were planning on giving him a blessing with the missionaries later in the evening and invited him to participate. We figured he would be too busy and didn't really expect much. Will wanted to bring our camera in case he did show up so we could get a picture of Lincoln with Steve Young. I informed him that would be terribly tacky. He only fought a little and then conceded that it was probably just a little inappropriate.

Around 6:15 I told Will he probably should go call the missionaries and make sure they were still coming, since we had said we wanted to do the blessing at 6 and they weren't there yet. I expected Will to come back with the missionaries and instead he comes back with Steve Young. The missionaries had gotten held up in the ICU visiting someone else, so Steve helped us do the blessing. Besides thinking that we have a really awesome story to tell Lincoln some day, we were really touched that he took the time to come and see our baby having four of his own children at home. He is a really great guy.

The test from this morning showed that Lincoln's white blood cell count came down from 20 to 15, so that is great (Normal is under 20). They are still not sure when they will do his surgery. We are thinking they don't want to give us anymore dates because then they have to recant what they tell us if it doesn't work out. As long as Lincoln is doing well we are happy.

We finally got the disposable camera developed that Will took with him on the plane. (This was from the Saturday before last.)