April 1
As far as I know April Fool's Day is
not celebrated here. That said when our young girl, who comes once a
week to help, was sweeping today she handed me an earring she found
on the floor. I told her thanks and put it up, a couple of minutes
later she said “oh and here is this one” and handed me a dead
cockroach! I jumped and yelped, then we laughed. She thought it was
very funny! Some humor definitely crosses borders. Harold sprays the
house regularly, so it is not a dead cockroach that puts me on alert
– just the kind that still want to walk and run!
Semana Santa finished, the nightly
parades are interesting here with their drums and dirges and carrying
the statues through the town, stopping to pray and preach along the
way. No school for the week, so the children enjoyed their break.
One strange law we learned though was that people aren't allowed to cut wood
for building and only enough for their own home cooking during that week. We
only found out because some of the members saw people arrested for
transporting wood!
We did a lot of work by phone last
week, checking on each of our Spanish speaking missionaries to see
how they are doing with their English and giving reminders to
everyone to make sure their apartments are clean. We start our
inspections round again this week and that is always a lot of fun to
visit with all of our missionaries.
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