Well, yesterday was a great day. We got internet in the home, finally! Heather managed to get all our WiFi up and running. It was awesome. It ran too late and I was wiped out, but it was awesome.
Today was tough. I slept terribly and could not get out of bed for 6 am prayer at the church. I could barely get up at 7 to get Nate ready for school. I pushed myself to function and get at least some things done all morning long.
I called the gas company back and they still don't have any replacement gas cylinders our size. I tried to get them to bring us a smaller one but they said that I would have to call their corporate office to negotiate that. Negotiate? I can barely understand the receptionist over the phone. I did not feel very confident to "negotiate" over the phone.
I contacted a pastor friend to see if he could help. He was shocked to hear that we had been without gas for 5 days & asked why we did not ask for help sooner. I communicated that we did not want to run to them for every little thing and that we needed to learn how to do some things for ourselves. We had finally reached a point of impasse though and could use some intervention. - Part of the trouble is that we don't have a phone book. No one we know has a phone book. Apparently they exist, but are not a big deal here. Also, it is hard to look things up on line. Jujuy, as big as it is, is still in "the sticks" and you just can't find things on line.
How do you find things? The old fashioned way - you either know about it, or start asking everyone you know about it. So, we are asking our pastor friend for help. He jumped right on it and I was confident we would have heated water and be able to cook before the end of the day. ...well, it is 10:30 at night and I don't know what happened to our pastor friend. I have not heard anything else from him and Heather told me that neither he nor his wife were at the Women's Meeting tonight. Something major must have come up. I am concerned and praying for them. ...but we still don't have gas or any new options. - Tomorrow is a new day! We'll see what God brings then.
One fun thing. We went shopping for groceries this morning with Jonny and Aliana while Nate was still in school. I guess we bought over a certain amount of things so we got 3 chances to win a prize at the door. Aliana clicked an icon at random on a revolving computer screen & won a liter of milk! Then Jonny did the same and won a new glass. - I almost felt bad and so gave our 3rd chance to the mom and kid behind us in line. He won something! Either God was really trying to bless us, or everyone wins, or both. Hmmm? : )
Then God blessed us again. We had a long walk home and too much stuff to carry. No worries, as we should be able to flag down a taxi out front of the store. They are always there to help haul people and their stuff back to their place. This time - not one in sight. Weird. So, I tried to catch a Remis - pronouced "Ree - meese" they are like a taxi, but will stop and add other people along the way to make more money. They are cheaper than taxis but not as convenient either. They do NOT like to stop and pick up people from the store, especially not entire families with all their groceries, as they don't have room to add others to the trip. It is not good business for them. - Well, God granted us favor with a driver. He was incredibly non- remis driver like to take us. We tipped him and extra 20% (only about $.50 for our trip) to express our thanks and then he was very thankful. : )
Not having had a constant internet connection for over 6 months, I have a TON of catching up to do. I plowed through a lot of old e-mail tonight while Heather and Aliana were leading worship at the Women's Group (Nate & Jonny were caching up on lost time - playing their favorite and nearly forgotten on line games). Yet, I still think it will take me several more days to a couple of weeks to process everything. It is getting there.
I am going to hit the bed now. I am brutally tired and really need to get some sleep so that I can get feeling better.
Good Night & God bless -
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