Today we were privileged to witness God’s showers of blessings =) A tropical rain is something! – a great display of God’s majesty and strength! The rain season here is supposed to be over but, I guess, it decided to come back - may be just for us =). The words “rain”, “shower” or even “pouring” – do not cover it! The wind is so hard you can’t take a breath, the water makes a wall, lightning, thunder – we couldn’t hear each other in the house. I stepped out for a second on the porch – it’s quite spacious – and I was wet through only with the splashes from the ground and the sides. The rain (nobody calls it “a storm” here) cut down two trees near the missionaries’ house and many more in the village and on the road. Pastor Pavel and Sasha were travelling at this time and got stuck on the road – I hope he’ll get to share his impressions soon himself. But for people here rain is not a big event – the rain season lasts 6 months – so the people just continue doing whatever needs to be done.
This day started with us visiting the local secondary school. The school building is a concrete box with holes for windows, often no ceiling, just the roof, most classrooms are grey, not painted, with very dented floor. They would very much like to make the ceiling in classrooms because without it snakes often fall on the children from the roof. When we came, they stopped all the classes and wanted us to introduce ourselves. The children were very animated and friendly.
Then we took a 15 minute walk to another village where I was supposed to start teaching Bible lessons to first-graders. But their teacher who is supposed to translate for me happened to have a business in town so he was away and we couldn’t start today.
Just now the lights went out and we are doing the dishes and washing floors with candle lights.
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