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Good news: I finally took a shower. After four full days of no shower, I am clean again. Baby wipes definitely help but..it’s just not the same. I’m going with the braids again, wish I could pull off having dreads, but I don’t want to shave it all off when I get tired of them, so I will just stick to braids. It’s been freezing here the past few days. It rains a ton and it’s chilly since we’re up in the mountains, so we’ve been pretty cold. It’s weird to hear that at home its in the upper nineties…its probably sixties here, we’re pulling out the jackets and everything! Katy the Canadian laughs at Andi and me all bundled up, but…I mean, we can see our breath here!
Anywho, the past couple of days have been pretty busy, thank goodness. I was worried that with no teams here we wouldn’t have anything to do, but we have stayed busy. Thursday we went to the clinic downtown and drowned lots more pills. We were there pretty much ALL DAY LONG. We had lots to finish up, plus Tom forgot about us and we couldn’t get in touch with anyone to come get us. It was slightly annoying. Andi was sick pretty much all day Thursday with stomach stuff, but after a lot of rest she is feeling much better.
Friday we had the breakfast at the Mary Magdalena house. Each week more and more people are coming, some hungry for food and some just hungry for teaching. It’s awesome, because there is lady name Jeanette who speaks English, she has been an alcoholic for quite some time now but hasn’t been drinking the past few weeks and is taking a lot better care of herself. Keep praying for her!
We got a package yesterday from Paige and Jeremy full of….cookies! We baked some peanut butter ones last night and they were muy bueno. We even have some of the chocolate chip variety, which makes me oh so happy.
“Consider it pure joy, brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.” –James 1:2-3
I was reading this verse yesterday, and thinking about how being here in Guatemala has been a lot different than I thought. For me going into this, it sounded like an adventure, as well as a neat opportunity to minister to the people here. While it has been both of those, I wasn’t expecting for it to be hard. Maybe that was unrealistic of me, but I just didn’t think it would be. I realize now that Satan tries to get us down in times when we are trying the hardest to serve God. So for me, this verse has a lot of meaning…it says that this testing that has been constantly happening over the past 4 and ½ weeks has been to develop perseverance in my faith. And to consider it “pure joy” when this happens, which is something that I ask God daily to give me, even if I feel like crap. Anyways, just wanted to share.
The team of 19 from Atlanta just got here yesterday. Our house is now full of crazy people. We have one bathroom to share among 13 women…woohoo! It should be a really great week.
HAPPY FATHERS DAY DAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
