Day 34

Service has been so interesting here. The day after tent preaching, we went to all the schools where people are living who's houses are flooded. I saw a few people crying when we talked to them, some people have lost everything. They don't have beds or enough clothes and don't know when they will be able to go home again. Also, I talked to a man who had a stroke and couldn't move very well. I read Isaiah 33:24 and talked to him a little. At the end he grabbed my hand and either said "thanks for visiting me" or "when are you coming to visit me again?" (My Spanish still needs work haha). But either way it was very touching.

Also, it hasn't rained very much in the past week and that's our source of washing and bathing water. We really needed to wash our clothes and so we went with a bunch of brothers and sisters to a small lake to wash our clothes haha. Definitely a first for me. We stood in the water and filled a bucket with lake water and then added the laundry soap and washed with hands :) Then I rinsed the soapy clothes in the lake and hung them up to air dry. The water was brown and there were tons of floating weeds and garbage (yuck) but it was better to wash them in that than not at all. Also, there were tons of people washing their clothes there, all lined up along the edge, it was like a normal outing or something.

Since it hasn't rained much in the past week, the sun has been out a ton, and when the sun is out, it is HOT. Today we are at a swimming pool which feels so fantastic!