The day is over and the kids are asleep and today is the first day Ethiopia (and all of its chaos) got the best of the Farrell Clan. The paperwork meeting was very frustrating and I found out I needed about 1/5 of the information we were told to bring. Tigist had a tough afternoon and evening. Andrew is feeling better and eating which is great. I am hopeful tomorrow will be a better day for him. Rahel and William have had good days.
We have been without running water for the past 10 hours, the whole area of town we are in is out. Going to the bathroom has been quite interesting. Our guest home has been great and they are actually filling up some back up tanks right now so we will have water in the morning and the toilets will be working again. I am laughing as I am writing this because I think it was the one thing we didn't plan for(or better said Susan didn't plan for) on this trip. We expected no hot water, power outages, sick stomachs, food issues, lice, every fungus known to man, but not this one.
It is days like this Susan and I always say "God only gives you what you can handle." We have survived this day and our trip is halfway complete. Tomorrow we actually don't know what we are doing because the agency has changed the itinerary but we know it will be busy. Please keep praying for us.
God Bless,
Chris
Bless all of you my darlings. You said it. God brought you to it & He will see you all thru it.
ReplyDeleteHope you & Susan are getting a little better sleep. Praying for a good day tomorrow & rest of stay.
Love,
Momma/Nana
So glad to hear everything is going so well! except the running water--you'll look back on this and laugh!
ReplyDeleteI'm home with two sick ones today-did you want to make it a family of 8?
Hugs and Kisses!
-valerie joy
Bless all of you...sounds like you are getting the ***** (5 star) adventure! (I know, not funny..) Hang in there Farrells!
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