Today was our recoop day. Bethany and I set our alarm for 8am but when it went off... we tried to get up but after we agreed that we could both sleep for so much longer, we did... for two more hours. I remember the first thing I noticed when I got up was that it was pouring down rain outside... again! Ha! Well I was super hungry and the guys have all the food back at their house so I was like... Bethany I have two raincoats so we're going to get food! Walking in that rain, you honestly get drenched within SECONDS... but it was nice. I was really surprised I must say, that we had mosquitos swarming our faces while we walked... in the rain. It seemed so impossible to me but it happened! We then get to the boys' house, and it's locked. They are still in bed. So after waiting outside for a very long time, trying to find another way in... I finally decided that they needed to get up (it was 10:30) and I wanted food... so I tapped on the window and thankfully Anthony heard us and let us in.
Ok... That was just the beginning of our day. We decided we would like a good breakfast; you know eggs, sausage, pancakes... the works... so we go to the grocery store. After loading up on food... we head home to make it. We needed dish soap too cause we had all these greasy plates from our dinner the night before that weren't clean yet and we needed food. While Bethany started the dishes, I went straight to getting breakfast made. Well first thing I did was rip open the box of Aunt Jamima's Pancake Mix... It was a little difficult to open... for some reason the cardboard wouldn't tear the way I wanted to... I guess it was all just to add a little bit to what I was about to face. The box of pancake mix.... was alive. Hundreds of these tiny bugs were crawling all over the inside!!! It was absolutely disgusting! So, both boxes were like that, so we took them back to the store and got good ol' bisquick instead. Had a hearty breakfast and then decided that we really couldn't do that again cause it ended up costing us a good amount of money (it is EXPENSIVE)!
We had a little bit of a team meeting started after we ate and cleaned up... but it was more just chill hangout with each other time. Pastor Jimmy got a list of things we needed and brought back all this stuff for us (which was awesome, he is awesome)... anyway, one of those things was a broom; because see, these stupid ants were swarming the floor and they hurt when they bite, so we wanted to get rid of them. Now, I don't remember how this happened exactly but I was sweeping and somehow a door was opened somewhere and this (what I like to call "warrior wasp") flew into the house. I can handle spiders, I can handle the bat moths, I can handle the land crabs, I can handle the geckos, and I can handle the scorpions.... bees, wasps of any kind... no. I was out the door... then saw that everyone else was following me, screaming all the way ... guys included, Ian just as scard as us but managing to say "why are we running out the door?" as we ran! These things, seriously, are creepy... we have them back home too, they are just in greater number down here. Anthony grabs the broom for me and starts going at it... after a while of us running around to keep away from the thing, it flies out (thank the Lord). Only later when we had our real team meeting, they were buzzing at the screen doors and I was convinced they had come for revenge.
Another good Anthony killing bug story was later when Dionis reached down to grab something from Kirk's backpack... I don't remember who yelled that there was a bug on the bag but we all looked to see this cockroach right next to Dionis' hand.. it was huge. He screams and runs and then after a while Anthony finally kills the thing.. but it really didn't happen till an hour later.. those things just don't die.
Bethany and I drove to the airport to get Marissa with Kirk... I got a kick out of hailing everyone as we drove.. also, driving on the other side of the road is pretty fun... but I mostly really enjoyed how you can just wave to everyone as you drive, infact its the culture! While we were getting Marissa, Pastor Jimmy was taking the boys spear-fishing.... well once we got Marissa, they were still out there, the doors to their house locked, Kirk stuck in the van with us... so after some driving around and endless calling of Anthony we drove over to where they took off and hung out with Pastor Jimmy's kids till the boys showed up. They finally did and we cut some coconuts and went home (coconuts are really good by the way, their milk is my favortie).
By this time I was super super hungry again! So we finally got back to the guys and had leftovers and cereal for dinner. After dinner, another team meeting... Bethany shared an old soap, but it was perfect, fit in with a lot of our hearts and just stuff God wanted to say... we talked some and then prayed, it was really good.
All this time, Anthony is determined to take us land island crabbing. Pastor Jimmy brings a crab in and demonstrates for us how to catch them... they are beastly. So we go, and that's what we were doing until 12:30 in the morning... driving down choppy roads hanging onto the car and running after crabs when we saw one. We only caught two.. but I caught the second one!!! It was pretty sweet :) I was so happy to have had the oppurtunity to do that! It was really very fun even though the roads we took had virtually no crabs... we were at it for probably more than two hours and couldn't find that many at all.
One last word about today... the mosquitos.... are.... terrible. Poor Bethany got pretty much eaten alive today... I have a lot too, but not as many as her and not as bad as her.. I don't know if she's allergic to the ones down here or what but it was pretty bad. Anyway, we'll be praying for that, it's a small thing but God cares even about the small things, sometimes they are the most important.
So, that wasn't even a full day and look at everything that happened! Just wait till we start ministry... woah baby :) Anyway we miss you all! Although I'm adjusting to the heat I still miss the cold... the thunder storms every night on the horizon I must say are pretty cool too. And how it doesn't really get dark here that much. But still miss home! Miss you middle school girls! Remember, I want to hear testimonies! I'm so excited for what God has in store for you guys in your schools this year! I really believe it's going to be big!
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