Hot days without water

It was hot when our church was here and I didn't thing that it would get much hotter, but it has. Over the past two weeks it has been in the 100's several days. It wouldn't be so bad if we had air conditioning, but we don't so it has been miserable. The past few days have cooled down (normally that doesn't happen until it rains) and only been in the high 80's to low 90's. Rainy season was supposed to start in the middle of May, but so far nothing where we live. Outside of the capital city they have had rain for a week and a half. We are anxiously awaiting the start of the rain.

For those of you who don't know, we live in a big house on a dirt road. At the end of our road is several mechanic shops. To say our area is a dust bowl is a mild exaggeration. When the rain starts I will be able to take down all of the curtains and wash them. Right now you can see the dust on them. I would wash them now, but we have not been getting much water.

We have an underground cistern that holds 1,500 gallons of water. That will last us quite a while if I am not doing lots of laundry. Yesterday we had to buy water again. We have not gotten any water from the city for a week and a half. Today we are going to try to go and report it to the water department. To report no water you must take your monthly bill that has been paid to the main office. Yesterday we tried, but there was a protest out front and we couldn't get in.

We also have to go to the phone company today. They shut off our phone for not paying our bill. We hadn't gotten the bill yet, but I guess that doesn't matter. We had to go to the main office and request our bill and then paid it, but they haven't turned the phone on yet.

On a happier note, we have Baptism Sunday this coming Sunday. We have two people at this time who want to be baptized. One of our men from church called us yesterday and told us that someone threw a dead dog into the pond where we normally baptize. We are not sure what to do. We are going to try and clean it up, but if that doesn't work, we will have to find another place to baptize. If they get a really good rain it will wash everything down stream. We are praying for that.

Life is never boring in Honduras.