This
week’s been pretty awesome.
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This
Wednesday, we went to the market for the last time, and literally got more
donations than we’ve ever received in the past fifteen weeks. It was unreal.
Starting out, I had a really bad attitude, cus I was with the same group for
the billionth time, and the Mexican men were being incredibly grocero (whistling and trying to get my
attention with words that are borderline inappropriate), and I was just not
having any desire to be there. I kept praying for patience and tolerance, and
things got a little better, but I was still grumpy, haha. I think we eventually
winded up with 5 huge boxes of mangos, and every time we went to drop off
another load in the mini bus, I would stuff myself with bananas or mangos or
litches or carrots. #healthyoverindulging. There was one instance where it only
took literally less than ten minutes to fill our whole cart and return back to
the bus with yet another load. At the end, we had to cram three people to a
seat cus the rest of the mini was full to the gills. As we waited for our
driver to get back from his last run, we gorged ourselves on wine-soaked
cheese, regular cheese, avocados, bananas, and whatever else we were hungry
for. It was glorious, except that I felt so bloated I couldn’t move. And then
Richie, our driver, returned with tortillas to make avocado tacos, and I
decided I could fit in three of those. #youknowyoureinLaViñawhen…
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On
Monday, we had our Extreme Challenge, which originally was sposed to be an
eight-hour hike to the “Paso de Cortes” (a spot inbetween Mt Popo and the
Sleeping Lady, the two volcanos), except here’s the thing: the volcano is like
two seconds from exploding apparently, along with spouting as much ash as a
truck driver would spout swear words after blowing a tire. So that got nixed
real fast. Instead, we had to walk 16 miles with 20 pounds on our backs, with 8
of those miles including mildly-to-wildly inclined terrain. Basically we left
EV, walked to and climbed the dead baby volcano, walked back down it, walked a
million miles to another big, never-ending baby mountain, conquered it, then
walked all the way back to EV. 8 AM to 3 AM. The last four miles, my feet were
practically splitting from the endless trekking. So after eating lunch, all of
us slept until supper, which was quite well-deserved.
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Three
groups are here this week, from the States, and it’s been nice to chat with
them at random intervals. I had the blessing to help translate with a
mini-eye-clinic that one group was running, and talk to guys my dad’s age about
their ministry. One guy from another group, Jonathan Gibson, has been holding
night classes with us, and last night during his question-and-answer session, I
randomly turned around to look out the window and literally saw the most glorious cloudscape I’ve ever
witnessed. It was literally like the glory of God manifested in the clouds-
absolutely, supernaturally wondrous.
Those are all
the big things I’ve got for this week. Of course, there’s much more going on,
and I’d write about it, except for I don’t have a lot of time to (hehe) and
other things should just be kept to
ourselves. But it is evident God is working in us, bringing our bad
characteristics to light so we can deal with them and let go of them and
transform. Sometimes it’s a rough process, but always with the purpose to
better us and grow us closer together.
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