Nathan and Jayving went to Juan's house to work this morning. He is helping with odd jobs around his house that need to be done. Like picking up sticks, digging a trench, hauling pipes, and cement work for a new pool. Lydia, Liam and I walked to the daycare and spent the morning there.
12/2/14 Day 20 "Thankful"
Today the kids and I stayed home to do grocery shopping, cleaning and laundry while Nathan went to Juan's house this morning to work. Today I am thankful for the small (big to me) ways that people are reaching out to us in the community. We went to the market today to buy produce and the man there was talking to the kids and interacting with them. Then we went to the grocery store and the man at the meat counter asked how long were were going to be here in Choele and he was teasing the kids a bit. I'm so grateful for the small ways that I can communicate and interact with the community people here. Lydia put up our Christmas decorations today, but it doesn't seem like Christmas around here with the temperature well into the 90's today. Tonight we had Tyler over for supper. He just graduated from high school and has been staying at Chito and Mary's house for the past six months. He is from Pennsylvania and will be returning to the States shortly. It was fun to get to know him better and we talked with him from 7-11pm. We got to bed by midnight and by 1am Liam was throwing up. This lasted every 30-45 minutes until about 4:30am.
12/3/14 Day 21 "Tired"
Nathan was going to go to Juan's house today and we were going to go back to the daycare but since we are both tired from being up with Liam last night we are all staying home today. We will work on cleaning and laundry today-both seem like never ending tasks. The good news is that Liam seemed fine all day today. This evening we walked to the North zone church for their prayer meeting. Pablo and Vivi (the pastors son and his wife) asked us over for supper next Tuesday night which we are grateful for and Delbert brought us home from the church meeting so we didn't have to walk. On our way home Delbert said that the cook and another boy from the daycare were throwing up too, so Liam must have gotten a virus from there.
12/4/14 Day 22 "Sick"
We had a good nights rest but Jayvin started throwing up early this morning. Nathan decided to go to Jorge's farm to help pick cherries early this morning right after Jayvin had thrown up just once. After Nathan left though Jayvin kept throwing up again and again and then Lydia woke up and she started throwing up too. I had two pukers simulateously and I didn't know what I was going to do. I asked Elizabeth to text Jorge to tell Nathan to come back home. Nathan came back then ~10am and Lydia and Jayvin were sick all day long. I was doing laundry from the time we woke up until the time we went to bed today. I was grateful for a working washing machine though. It takes ~ 2 1/2 loads of laundry for every 1 load I would have done in the States and each load takes ~ 1 1/2 hours to do-exactly why I was doing laundry ALL day long from all of the yucky's. The temperature got to 104 degrees today but this morning was pleasantly cool, so we stayed outside as much as possible this morning so they could puke outside and then I could wash it away. By the afternoon I was starting to feel nauseous, but I just thought it was from cleaning up so much from the kids. By evening I threw up, but thankfully only once. I just want to end this day and start over better tomorrow.
12/5/14 Day 23
I don't have any energy this morning but I'm feeling better than yesterday and everyone else is too. Thankfully Nathan never got sick. It has felt like a long miserable week and Nathan and I are feeling homesick this evening for different reasons. This evening we walked to a park for the kids to play. This is a park we had never checked out before-one that is really close to our house-it's about all the energy I had for the day, but we didn't stay long. Soon after getting there we realized we were getting thorn like bristles in our sandals and the tires of the stoller. I was worried that we would have holes in the tires of our stroller by morning, but thankfully we didn't. The temperature here today was 101 degrees, so it was another hot day. Nathan and the two older kids decided to sleep outside since it was much cooler outside than inside.
12/6/14 Day 24 "Glory a Dios"
By 5am Nathan and the kids were back inside from their tent adventure. It was starting to rain very hard. It hardly ever rains here in the desert of the Patagonia, so it was a welcomed relief to have rain. It rained a good part of the morning and really cooled everything off. What a wonderful blessing to be cooler and to have all of our windows open for a good part of the morning. This morning Elizabeth and I walked to La Anonima (the larger grocery store) to buy food for the next couple of days since Monday is a holiday here. On our way there Floyd and Jacob pulled up and they were headed there too, so we got a ride the rest of the way there and all the way back with our groceries. It's amazing how the Lord provides for us. At 5pm today Elizabeth and I took our kids to Pablo and Vero's house. We talked with Vero for awhile and the kids played with Pedro their five year old son.
This morning a group of people picked us up in the church van to drive to Darwin. This town is only about 10 minutes away and it is a place where they have a mission center. Last time we were here Nathan and I had helped extensively on building the church building in Darwin, so we were very excited to return here and see the people and building that we had worked hard on. Right when we were on the outskirts on town Jayvin puked in the van, so they graciously turned the van around and we went back home to get him a new shirt. I would have been very disappointed if we weren't able to go today, because of being stuck at home all week with the pukes. He seemed to be fine all the rest of the day. We had a worship service in the buiding and made empanadas there for lunch.
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