Hay Agua!

-Lauren Yutzy

It’s almost 6, Vicki and I wander around the apartment with the water faucets turned on. The water had been turned off all day and when we found out a time that water would be turned on for only a half hour- everything else is dropped and our lives revolve around the coming of water. 6 rolls around and we hold our breath until 6:03 when the blessed sound of water comes rushing out of the faucets. The whole neighborhood celebrates together with shouts of Hay agua! (There is water!) Now that there is water the work starts: there is a sink full of dishes that need to be washed, a load of dirty laundry to do, water to boil for drinking water, the bucket in our bathroom to fill so that on mornings without water we can take a bucket bath, and showers to take if wanted. Vicki and I split up the duties and get started. I have never appreciated having running water at anytime like now. I think one of the best showers I have ever had was a cold bucket bath that I didn’t think I would get because I had missed all the times when the water was turned on and the only reason I got this one was because the water was left on past the time that it was supposed to be shut off. Water is a luxury that I didn’t realize I had in the US.

Prayer requests: continued bonding with the people at this church, patience with the language and different time management, and for sanity with all of the plans given to us without enough time to do them all.
thanks for reading! Dios te bendiga!