Water Rationing

Since moving to Honduras almost three years ago we have learned never to take water for granted. In the colonia (neighborhood) where we live, we normally get water every other day. The colonia where we used to live got water only two days a week. That was hard. Even though we had a huge tank for water storage, it had something wrong with it and would run out of water after just two days. We had to wait until the middle of the night for the water to start coming in to do our wash. We love getting water every other day instead of two times a week. We do not drink the water from the city (we would get very sick with amoebas) so the rationing only means that we don't take long showers and try not to do laundry. In this house we have never had our tank run dry and that is a huge blessing.

This week has been extra great for us. We have received water every day. What a huge blessing that has been. When we have water coming in from the city and not from our tank there is great water pressure. When we are running on tank water the pressure is poor and if I have to do wash, it takes me over 30 minutes to fill the washer with water. This week, I have been able to get my wash done so quickly.

They are giving us water every day because it is Holy Week. Holy Week in Honduras is also known as "Go to the Beach week". Almost everyone that has a car is at the beach or other vacation spots. This means less people using water which is why the water company leaves it on for the whole city. It is a ghost town here, but that is nice because it is a very quick trip to get anywhere. It does make for low church attendance, but praise the Lord for the 13 we had in church last night.