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How is it going? We are doing good. We did run out of water for a day. Try to imagine a house with 4 sweaty people and no flushing toilet. It's even more scary we you discover no water after 2 cups of coffee, some prune juice, papaya and a bran muffin. I have made a horrible decision. I knew we needed to fill our water tank on Wednesday, but we had a long day in the ministry, then we cooked dinner. By the time we were all through I figured we would be fine until the morning. (Our water comes from a 480 gallon water tank that is on our roof. The water in the house is gravity fed from that tank. To fill that tank we have to attach a water pump to a pipe in the yard and a pipe that runs into the tank. Turn on the valve on the pipe in the yard and let the water flow.) Well, sometimes the water is turned off. We normally have water available to pump in the mornings for a few hours and in the late afternoons for a few hours. Thursday morning, I went to pump water and nothing came out. No problem I thought, it should come on later. Nope. We made it through Thursday okay with the water left in the tank. By Friday morning we were out. No agua for us. That means no flushing of the toilet, washing dishes, washing hands or showering. Thank goodness the water came on about 5:30 that evening and we were able to pump water again. I am so happy to have a operational toilet again! I was kidding about the prune juice, papaya and bran muffin. Scary enough with just coffee.
Wednesday, we meet another new deaf boy/man. I don't know, what do you call someone that is 18? We had been asking the neighbors in the area if they knew anyone deaf and many responded, "yes. Squatty boy down so." Or, "fat boy. He is young, but looks like a man.", while they puff out their arms just to make sure you know what fat means (not to be confused with "big", which means older. Excited to see what a squatty boy looks like, we went to the house we were told he lives. There he was, squatty boy. Squatty means just how it sounds. Not too tall and thick. Some friends will go by him this Wednesday to start studying with him.
We also had our first study with another new deaf man, Dennis, we meet last week. I am going to love this study! He doesn't know ASL, but is very good at communicating. Sometimes, he even gets it when I ask him a question. Its funny, he doesn't want to use some of the signs we try to teach him. If he has a sign for something already and we show him the ASL sign for it, ask him to sign it, he just looks at us like we are crazy and signs it his way. His signs are pretty clear, and he does use some of the signs we teach him. But most importantly, he understands the points from the Bible we teach him.
Guyanese word of the day: Manish. No, it is not used in describing a manly woman. It means mischievous. "That boy is manish!" Or you could say: "That boy is disgusting!" Which also means mischievous. Feel free to use these sayings liberally. Oh, on a side note, the squatty boy we meet this week, Dennis (the deaf man mentioned above), told me that he is disgusting.
Love,
G&J
