As
mission team, we sat in a circle as each family shared their praise
reports. Jeff leaned over to me and
said, “Do we want to mention our new addition?”
My heart stopped, “Are we pregnant?” With a smile he said, “Do we want to mention
the new additional room to our
house?”
So without sweaty palms and rapid breathing I can safely
announce we have a new addition to our house – a boys’ room. It could not have come at a better time. When the temperature dropped to 32 degrees, all
9 of us sequestered ourselves in that one room playing games, watching movies,
eating meals, reading and sleeping (we’ve now been in here about 5 days). The new room, unlike the rest of the house
actually has brick walls that reach the roof and is dramatically warmer than
the other rooms. In the other part of
the house I can stand in the middle of a room and feel the wind blowing on me
from the cracks in the plank walls. Jeff
said, “When people in the states talk about drafty house they mean that the
doors creak. In our house, a draft will
slam your door shut!”
Hot water bottles, heaters, long underwear, fuzzy
blankets, hats and wool socks have been our best friends this past week. Thankfully this is Paraguay and it won’t stay
cold for long.
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