I’m not sure what to write. Seems like the past week was quite a blur. In the evenings I never got around to sitting down and writing anything so it will be an overall summary. Lots of fun times were had. Trevors and Doyle’s plus Nathon were in and out of our house for several days. I have learned to enjoy being hospitable. At home I got such anxiety over having company. I worried my food wasn’t quite good enough, and would people look behind my couch or even worse behind the shower curtain? or would there be long awkward pauses in the conversation and on and on. Here I have learned to just relax and let it go. I still have frantic conversations with God about my food but I am thankful for this wee bit of personal growth and hope it continues when we go home. Brandi and Whitney watched the children a lot which was so nice. The kids played themselves to utter exhaustion. Played at the sand court, rode bike, played soccer, played in Layton’s pool, swung on our swing, went to the Dokan for chips, pop and ice cream etc. It is so much easier to host people in Dhaka now that the kids have a safe place to run and play. Layton says “no one yells at me anymore and tells me to stop!” We are slowly accumulating bikes trikes and soccer balls for all the kids to play with. Our meals were pretty simple… Jared and I made a big fajita meal Sunday evening and then we had sandwiches, Pizza Hut and Herfeys for the other meals. Trevor got the RO system running again at the guesthouse and some outdoor plumbing issues fixed. The men had several hours of CSI meeting. Our roof was the meeting room. They updated some computer things and lots of discussion was had about numerous things. So many changes have and are happening that it was high time to get together and work through a few things. The crazy thing is is that we have not gone looking for things to change. Trust me any missionary from anywhere can tell you how change isn’t exactly easy in the mission! But all these things that are changing are things that just suddenly quit working after how many years, or things that just fell in our lap. So far the changes have been mostly enthusing. Nathon helped us with a conversation with Lucky. Sounds like she will come to Pink city one day a week to clean. Her daughter might come as well. The maids here in Pink City are not very trustworthy and Jared and I would have to go sit at the guesthouse while the new maid cleaned until she could prove herself trustworthy. Anyways… we are going to do a trial run of her coming to clean for a few months and then re evaluate. She very badly wanted to keep cleaning and to stay in touch with CSI. Jared and I would almost prefer that she cleans the guesthouse instead of cooking for us. We will still let her cook occasionally just because we do enjoy her food but we are kinda burned out on rice right now.😂 She has been coming to every singing evening since we changed it to Thursday evening.
It’s been raining at night lately! It cooled things off so wonderfully! Instead of it being 100-106* everyday, it’s been 84-90*. We were so glad it was cooler now while we had our CSI get together because I’m not sure how well it would have went with 8 children cooped up inside because of the heat! Two days we didn’t even run our downstairs AC. No one is complaining about the cooler weather. The evenings are gorgeous. We bought a bunch of plastic chairs for sitting up on the roof. I love sitting up there in the evenings. No apartments in sight and from that high perch just lots of coconut and mango trees🥰 One evening when we were sitting up there Jared said “It’s going to be harder to leave this place than we think.”
Feels like things are slowly getting settled at the guesthouse. Still a lot of little projects to do. Some things have come up that we had no idea that we needed to do. One day the neighbor said we needed to hire someone to scrub out the underground water tank… so random new things pop up but nothing crazy. Jared and Nathon hired a truck and had all the new shelving brought over here to our house and the guesthouse. So nice. Now Layton’s toys have a place to go instead of being all in the living room and the bathroom towels and washcloths and toilet paper have a shelf instead of being piled in our bedroom.
For Layton’s birthday he chose steak, finger jello, Mac n cheese and pie! The steak was ok, definitely had better😂 He really enjoyed his day which made me happy. Got to talk to both his papas and Grampys!
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