Living Water

The plumber finally came yesterday, valve, ladder, and tools in hand (how does he carry so much on his bike?). He crawled into our attic, pounded on a few things, and voila we had 30-50 psi flowing through our African pipes. Never having had that much pressure put on them, a leak was sprung, sometime in the middle of the night, and water was freely flowing onto our bathroom floor. When we woke up, Tom assessed the situation, said that it would be an easy problem to fix, and “soon” we would be back in business. I’m tired of the word soon, I hear it too much around these parts. What exactly does it mean? To me it means anywhere from 5 min to 24 hours, but there is an entirely different definition in Kisumu. Soon can mean any time frame between 2 days and 2 years, but I have come to realize it is NEVER measured in hours.

We are getting the hang of school and are starting to enjoy ourselves. Today was a light day as I had Bible study, so that really was nice. Tomorrow it’s back to our regular schedule, I hope to shorten our days a bit, right now we start at 8:30 a.m. and finish around 4:00 p.m.. I need to be able to do some fun activities with the kids during the day (they keep asking about PE). But I have so many things to get through I wonder how we are ever going to fit PE in.

Our work permits were approved and we will probably be flying to Nairobi next week to go and pick them up. This is a huge answer to prayer as we have heard of people waiting an entire year to get their permits, we were able to get ours in 3 months! While we are in Nairboi we are going to stay a few days and do some car shopping. I hope that this trip will prove more successful than the last one.

I made tacos tonight, everyone loved them. They don’t have tortillas here so I decided to use chapattis instead, and they were a big hit with the family. I decided to include this bit of news so that you would all see that I am starting to get more creative.

I hope to have Internet tomorrow so that I can get caught up on my e-mailing. Our Internet has been doing really well for the past few hours and I am hoping that the worst is behind us. I love reading your comments, they make my day. Thank you for praying for me, I feel like I’m doing better this week. I think school has been a good distraction for all of us!