Home Alone/Volunteer group 2

For the first time in a month I am home alone. The volunteer group arrived a month ago, so my family was staying with me and I was sharing a room with my sister. Autumn got here before my family left has been sharing a room with me since they left. She informed me that several nights ago I was talking in my sleep....in Spanish! crazy, huh? Autumn just left to go to the airport to return to Pucallpa. It's too quiet now, after getting used to a month of visitors. :-(

Several IMB missionaries from Lima have gone to help with disaster relief. Last night we were still feeling aftershocks. Yesterday morning we (even Amy downstairs) were awakened my an explosion in my kitchen. I hadn't realized what had woken us up, but I went to the kitchen and there was shattered glass covering the whole kitchen. I couldn't figure out what it was from until I heard crackling at the stove and realized that it was shattered glass of what use to be the glass covering that goes over the stove. When I could hear that I got scared and woke up Autumn and Amy. Amy turned off the gas and moved the stove a little to be able to unplug it as well. When she moved it, it started making a louder, constant noise. We were all afraid to be in the kitchen (or even the upstairs apartment). I called my supervisor and asked him to come over, "this is an emergency!" Amy and Autumn made fun of me when I laughed after saying it was an emergency, but I tend to do that when I'm nervous or scared. Amy said "I'm going downstairs!" and I said, "I'll be right there!" I didn't want to stay upstairs just in case.

Kevin came and unplugged the stove and helped us clean up all the glass. He said he hadn't seen anything similar to that before. Now I'm waiting for the electrician who was supposed to be here at 8am, so I got up early to be sure to be ready before he got here. Well, it's 9 and he's still not here. What can I say, I live in a Latin American country....just got a call, and they might come Monday morning. Of course when I don't have a stove or oven from Thurs-Mon I am really wanting to cook something!

I've taken long enough, so I'm finally going to post a few pictures from Volunteer group number 2! I didn't really take pictures, these are from other people. My mom, dad, and sister got to come as well as some really good friends. What I want to know is who was preacing when picture #2 was taken...Dad or Jonathan?!? ;-) In the 4th picture we are sorting the donations of clothes from Grace Baptist and from a girl my sister works with...thanks so much for the help in that. When we gave the clothes to Karina (she is the one who wanted them to give to a lot of kids in the area), she cried. She and her mom put together small bags of clothes for 70 kids!