We've got another hurricane/tropical storm headed for us and we've been praying for a couple of days that it will veer out into the Pacific, but it has turned toward us! It's a category three hurricane now, but they (NOAA) are predicting it will diminish to a tropical storm before it comes onshore south of us again near Mazatlan. That's our prayer too!! Even at that it will pack a lot of wind and rain for us.
Our poor water system hasn't recovered from the Hurricane Lane, let alone is ready for Paul and what he may bring! We have fallen into a pattern of having water from about 10 pm (sometimes a little earlier) to about 5 am every day. Yep, that's only at night folks. So we have reluctantly turned into night owls trying to get the daily chores done during those hours when we have water. Adding to the problem is that the first hour it is on is basically a trickle, so you can't do much then except sit a bucket under the faucet to catch it all as it trickles in. No one in town has water 24/7 yet, and different parts of town have it at different times of the day. Tom and Lidia get it around 10 am until about 2 or 3 pm daily. Mostly! Please keep this in prayer, particularly in light of another potentially damaging storm on the way.
We tried again to see Benny at Campo San Juan to get permission to visit that camp and Santa Lucia. Kind of frustrating, as they wouldn't even let us past the guard barricade this time. They just radioed to Benny, and he said to come back in 15 days. Please pray that we could get permission to visit within these camps.
And our potential new landlord hasn't done a thing in the house since I last blogged. He told us it would be done by last Wednesday, we didn't hear from him so we called Thursday morning and at that time he said it would be done by Friday night. We thought that was a tall order as there was still all the painting to be done, the new door installed and removal of the balance of the storm-damaged trees and stumps. He said he'd stop by on Friday night and take us over to show us that it was indeed done. Haven't heard from him since!! So after much prayer, we've decided to just wait him out and see what happens, rather than calling or going by and checking on the progress. I think that just frustrates us and puts pressure on him, nothing any of us wants. This is certainly another point of prayer for us.
On the good news side, it's been so much cooler, it's a wonderful thing. Only low 90s and high 80s for high temperatures!!! The best part is the humidity had diminished a ton...downright pleasant out most of the day and evening. So much so that we haven't used the air conditioner in over a week, and only have been using the fans for a few hours here and there! What a huge blessing!!!
Thanks so much for lifting us before the Lord.
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