More Updates & Lots of Cleaning!!!
I just spent three hours in the kitchen, doing a few dishes, washing the washing machine that was FILLED with black mildew and cleaning the kitchen walls that were CAKED with sticky grease. I honestly don't think this place has been cleaned in years… the walls that were once black are now white. My hands and fingers are all wrinkled up! My kitchen is still not finished. I have some more walls to clean and the floor to do, but with no air conditioning and hot water boiling on the stove that I use to clean with, I'm about to burn up, not to mention I'm dead tired. I’ll try to finish the kitchen tomorrow. I guess writing 'homemaker' wasn't so untrue after all!!! I think the Father is getting me used to doing dishes and warming water on the stove so that when I return home I won't mind as much… it definitely will not be as complicated!
Sunday was a great day. I was reminded of the horrible driving that goes on here in EA. A van picked us up to take us to the hotel for our meeting. He was backing up and not watching and ran dead smack into a pole. It was directly behind where I was sitting! We laughed saying that if he had hit it any harder I would have flown into the front seat. Everyone was okay; he just wasn't watching where he was going at all!!! Then on the way to the hotel, our driver decided to pull around a line of stopped card into oncoming traffic. I guess he thought he was smaller than he was, I'm not really sure! The big dump truck was headed towards us and we were headed towards them until they both stopped about 3 inches from one another… they are crazy, crazy drivers! We finally made it to the hotel and we were all in one piece… I think!
At 10:30, all of us foreigners met together at a hotel (we rent a conference room there each week for two hours). We sang and shared the ways that our Father provided for us over the summer and in coming here. Then we shared a meal at KFC. Yummy!!! They have a fried chicken wrap that has some salsa in it… I think it is the closest thing to Mexican food that I can get here! I will definitely be back to get that again! Sunday evening I went to a meeting with about fifteen students. We met at an American's home. I have never heard singing like I did last night… it was awesome! If only we Americans sang like that each Sunday: such passion, not a care in this world, straight from the heart. It was too cool. After the singing, each person went around and shared what they were thankful for and many of them said that they were thankful for the ‘family’ that was gathered there. Many of the students are on their own; their parents do not support their beliefs. They were so thankful that after the summer that they could all be back together once again. Wow! What are we thankful for?
The rest of the week will be filled with some meetings and A LOT more cleaning!
Sunday was a great day. I was reminded of the horrible driving that goes on here in EA. A van picked us up to take us to the hotel for our meeting. He was backing up and not watching and ran dead smack into a pole. It was directly behind where I was sitting! We laughed saying that if he had hit it any harder I would have flown into the front seat. Everyone was okay; he just wasn't watching where he was going at all!!! Then on the way to the hotel, our driver decided to pull around a line of stopped card into oncoming traffic. I guess he thought he was smaller than he was, I'm not really sure! The big dump truck was headed towards us and we were headed towards them until they both stopped about 3 inches from one another… they are crazy, crazy drivers! We finally made it to the hotel and we were all in one piece… I think!
At 10:30, all of us foreigners met together at a hotel (we rent a conference room there each week for two hours). We sang and shared the ways that our Father provided for us over the summer and in coming here. Then we shared a meal at KFC. Yummy!!! They have a fried chicken wrap that has some salsa in it… I think it is the closest thing to Mexican food that I can get here! I will definitely be back to get that again! Sunday evening I went to a meeting with about fifteen students. We met at an American's home. I have never heard singing like I did last night… it was awesome! If only we Americans sang like that each Sunday: such passion, not a care in this world, straight from the heart. It was too cool. After the singing, each person went around and shared what they were thankful for and many of them said that they were thankful for the ‘family’ that was gathered there. Many of the students are on their own; their parents do not support their beliefs. They were so thankful that after the summer that they could all be back together once again. Wow! What are we thankful for?
The rest of the week will be filled with some meetings and A LOT more cleaning!
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