Odds and Ends.

Hello all,

The team has arrived….and they brought M&M’s!!! Woot Woot!!! Probably not what I should be snacking on prior to sleeping but whatever! We are so happy to have Robin and Gord here with us! We’ll take good care of them Christine!

So, there’s really not too much that’s all that exciting to blog about this evening (other than the team arriving) so I thought that we would write all the things that we’ve meant to tell you about before but have forgotten.

First, Chad forgotten to mention in his blog about his day with Christoph and his family that in the middle of the day he was offered a shower (a bucket with a bar of soap). The whole family participated…don’t worry, not at the same time! Everyone’s dignity was protected :) Chad said it was one of the highlights of an awesome day. I would have been nervous about peepers…but not Chad, nothing like a shower in the great outdoors!

Second, we forgot to tell you about the goat and the cement mixer. Chad was out with some of the guys watching them while they were trying to get the cement mixer up and running. Apparently the cement mixer has a pull cord like what you’d see on a lawn mower. Unfortunately the pull cord was missing and the guys were in need of some type of rope. Thankfully, there happened to be a goat, attached to a rope nearby. The boys went and fetched the rope…AND the goat, and attached them to the cement mixer. One can only imagine the whiplash that the poor goat endured as the rope was pulled to start the cement mixer. By the third tug, I’m sure the goat was in need of some intense message therapy! Anyway, the cement mixer is still not working. Hopefully while Gord is here he can get it up and running.

I think that’s it for forgotten “stuff.”

Now that I think of it, there was a rather interesting event this evening. Tonight was church. Chad went while I stayed back in our room and played with Dublin. We’ve found that it’s easier if we take turns going to service. Dublin is far too wiggly to hold for an entire service. While Dublin and I were playing we had an incident – we’re both safe and neither of us are injured, and I know that it is because people are praying.

What happened - The city power came on and the generator turned off meaning that I had to restart our air conditioner. As I was putting it to the correct setting I was suddenly surrounded by sparks – our air conditioner is now out of commission. The reason that this whole incident was rather scary is that we have a re-bar shelving unit that is sitting right next to the air-conditioner. It was an exposed wire from the air-conditioner that touched the re-bar and caused the unit to blow. Had Dublin been playing by the shelving unit, or touching it he might have been electrocuted. He also may have been hit by flying sparks. So, we thank you again for your prayers.

Anyway, I think I’ll sign off. We’re going to head off to bed in the next few minutes. Dublin and Chad both seem to be fighting colds so please remember to pray for them.

Lots of love.

Kelly.