Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Bizarre Happenings in San Fernando!


Strange things keep happening here and in order to remember them all I keep a tab on my journal with the title: “Bizarre Happenings in San Fernando”. The team and I thought that it would be a good idea to share some of the items on our list for comedic relief 
  • People sit down by the spring just to watch us wash our clothes 
  • To avoid being a spectacle, we shower by flashlight at the spring before we go to bed. 
  • Many people that we invite to bible study respond “later!” and we never see them again. 
  • We have a bucket of water that somehow always stays filled. It’s either Kuya that we are staying with that is filling it or God is miraculously keeping it full… It’s very suspicious 
  • Solution to any medical problem: Katinko 
  • There’s always that one house that blares the radio during the day… we just happen to be living in it 
  • Articles of clothing have mysteriously disappeared from our clothes line 
  • We found a crab in our kitchen. A real crab 
  • It is not uncommon to have thirty children following us at a time 
  • Merienda: corn out of a can and graham cracker 
  • Somehow Annie ended up calf-high in carabao poop on our way to baptize two women 
  • Techno music and or love songs play as we fall asleep at night…

These are only a few of the bizarre happenings here. These moments keep us laughing but they do not sustain us.  Christ alone is our sustainer. He is what gets us through every moment! These funny moments sure do help, though!