As I think back over the past few days while busily cutting out fish for tomorrow's lessons. I begin to wonder if my life will ever be normal again. It is not that anything major has happened, it is just as if the theme of this term on the mission field is to be, Expect the Unexpected. Thankfully these unexpected occurrences have been mostly good. This week, however, seems to be one curve ball after another.
Sunday afternoon while I was taking people home from church, Jason took some of the men to a Homiletics class being taught in Bro. Alan Jackson's church. Bro. Marcos Melindez was going to teach it in our church, but since Bro. Alan had some people that he wanted to hear it they moved the class to his church. While on the way to Bro. Alan's church the men stopped on the side of the road for some food. Unfortunately Jason ate some of it. What he ate was Papusas (an very good and safe to eat El Salvadorian food) and Repollo (shredded cabbage). Needless to say, the cabbage was not washed in bleach water. Jason has spend the past three days with Amoebas (if you have ever had it you will know what that means). Thankfully today he got some medicine. Hopefully tomorrow he will be feeling better.
Monday, we had Edwin over to fix our fridge. Thankfully all went well, except for the mess I had to clean up afterward. The repair job seems to have worked as the fridge has not frozen over yet.
Tuesday, Jordan decided that it would be fun to shut his finger in one of his drawers. By the time I got to him he had blood everywhere. Thankfully it was just a slight cut. To bad, though, that it had to bleed like he had cut his finger off. He tried to get out of doing his homework because of it, but he finally got it done.
Tonight, Joey was playing and dropped a drawer on his toe. It was pretty bloody and painful for him. I couldn't get the bleeding to stop so I just wrapped it in gauze and taped it up. It looked like the toenail was almost completely off. Thankfully after we got the bleeding stopped and I re wrapped his toe, we saw that the toenail is still intact. It is pulled away from the skin on only one side of his toe. We re wrapped it with gauze and tape and he is able to walk on it slightly. He was so funny when I was cleaning it the second time. He told me to clean his toenail as it was dirty (it is all bruised underneath). I assured him that it was not dirty, but I rinsed it with warm water anyway. After he had the gauze on it he let us know that he needed a band aid. So he now has a big toe wrapped in gauze and taped with a band aid around it. It is amazing how band aids make a kid feel better.
So much has been happening that it has been impossible to tell everything. We had a church donate money for shoes for all of the kids in our church. We told the kids that we needed to trace their feet for a craft we were going to be doing on Children's Day (Dia del Nino). We then took these traced feet and bought 38 pairs of shoes this past week (one for every faithful Sunday School kid). We found a store that gave us a great deal, but buying that many shoes is a lot of work. Now I have to wrap them for Sunday which is when we will celebrate Dia Del Nino. The actual holiday was on September 10th.
Please pray for our Dia Del Nino party that the kids will be well behaved, thankful, and learn something.
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