Today

Many days are normal and occur without incident. Today, however was not one of them. We woke up this morning to 10 minutes of electricity. Normally my first half an hour is spent reading my Bible and praying. So in those few short minutes that we had, I didn't get my clothes ironed or my hair done. Normally I try to iron clothes the night before, but last night I was tired and had clothes to fold. After that I decided to be lazy and iron in the morning. That probably won't happen again.

For those of you who don't know me really well, my hair is very thin and fine. Being without a curling iron is a scary occurrence. I did have some pretty bobby pins that I used to secure my bangs back so I didn't look too scary.

The doctor thinks that I have gestational diabetes, but they don't test for it here. Because of this I cannot eat cereal or anything sweet. I don't feel well afterwards if I do. I usually have a bowl of rice, or toast and an egg for breakfast. Both of those meals require cooking so they were not an option today. Since there were no curling irons or electrical appliances to take up our time we were ready early for church. Jason took us to Burger King for breakfast. This is only a few blocks from our house and wouldn't take much time. We didn't realize though that all of Honduras didn't have electricity either and they were also at Burger King. We did get breakfast, but it took about 45 minutes. If I hadn't been pregnant we would not have waited, but I am so glad we did.

Thankfully this didn't make us late. We got to church on time and had a good attendance. We had 44 kids in attendance. This is good because there is a Medical Brigade going on in Ojojona today and that normally steals a lot of people from church. When we were picking up one girl on the way into church her mom and a visitor were with her. We were excited as her mom rarely comes to church. We had almost gotten to the church when her mom signaled for us to stop and she got out with her visitor. Her mom just used us for a ride so she could go the medical brigade. She tried to get her daughter to come with her to the brigade, but Alison told her mom that she would come after church got out. I have never been so proud of someone. Alison is only 12 years old, but she showed us how much she has grown in the Lord lately.

We have been having trouble with some of the kids we pick up for Sunday School. They have been coming faithful, but we can't keep them in the church for the adult service. Today all but one was quite and sat still the whole time. The one who was not so obedient only tried to run away once. I caught him by the shirt as he rushed past me to the door. It was during the preaching so I whispered in his ear "it is time to sit down now" and he went and sat down quietly for the rest of the service. It was a MIRACLE.

While today was full of incidents, we are so thankful for the miraculous ones that God brought our way.