February 22, 2016

Diverted.  We had redirected our ‘day off’ to teach English at the school.  Arnoldo told us on Sunday that this was exam week and that the teacher, Iris, had a conflict after her classes for personal tutoring.  We thought that the English exam wasn’t until Friday, so we could still visit on Monday.  Iris arrived at 9:15 and said that the week schedule was completely redirected.  This may just be a time to let this attempt go for now.  Not only does it take some time on Monday morning, but it also takes hours of preparation on Sunday.  With a low turnout on the movie, we may let that time be redirected and see what develops in the future.  Iris is also not able to come on Monday’s.  We are not opposed working with her an hour a week, so she is going to pass by one day and we will talk about other options for her time.  The internet had been out all weekend in Juayua, so we were going to an internet café to skype to let the children know the details.  On the way, Socorro was arriving and we asked if she had internet in her hostel.  She did…and it was a different company.  So, we went in and made our call.  After we returned home, our service returned after about an hour.  We worked on lessons until lunch.  After lunch, Dwaine went to the church building to clean in the pila….water reservoir…..because we were being overcome with mosquitos.  Zika is definitely in the city, along with several other mosquito borne diseases.  The last few services have been a buzz and we thought this was the source of standing water.  We missed the fumigation because we were not at the building.  Dwaine said cleaning further stirred them up and then designated captains to send out arm biting squadrons, leg biting squadrons, face biting squadrons, etc.  Dwaine was almost sick by the time he was finished.  He also sprayed an entire can of repellant and used his time to repair kitchen and bathroom sinks of leaks.  I went up and met Seyli to go to a study with Sonja and Amelia at the home of Mr. Rivas.  They were ready for us and Seyli led the study.  We discussed passages for about 2 hours.  Another man who lives there, Jose, arrived too and he sat in on what remained on the study.  Afterwards, we planned our luncheon for Friday for Kelly and Alba.  For the night, we cooked for a dinner on Tuesday, skyped, caught up on ‘election’ news and worked on lessons.