What´s new

Well.... first it´s great to have the internet working again. It´s weird, we´ve had a LOT of rain over the past two weeks. Some of the country has extreme flooding and ten of thousands are homeless. But we haven´t really had a problem with losing electricity, which is really nice, but the internet seems to always be down as of late. And he´s another weird thing... my laundry.
Well since I got back here over a month ago, I started to clean my own laundry. I would wake up at 5 am on Saturady and do my wash and have it all on the clothes line by 7 am so it can dry before the afternoon rain and have it done in one day. Then one weekend, it rained in the morning, so I got no laundry cleaned. Later that week I took my laundry to local cleaners, since the lady had a washer & dryer. I paid about $15 to get three loads cleaned and folded. Well when the lady at the orphanage that does most of the laundry found about me taking my laundry somewhere else to get it cleaned, she got really offended. The reason I stopped letting her clean my laundry in first place was that she made it clear, before I came home to visit, that she didn´t want to clean it anymore. She told my sister-in-law once, when she was here, that she needed to clean my laundry. And when this worker was cleaning my laundry, I was having to wait close to 5-6 days to get my laundry back. But now she wants to do it again, she don´t even want me to clean my own laundry. She insist I let her do it. And now it´s that rainy season, and we´ve gotten a lot of it. I figured it would take DAYS to get my laundry back. Nope... I get it back it in less than two days now. Weird, when it was sunny, I waited 6 days..... and I don´t pay her to do my laundry.
I´ve been busy in San Juan Pueblo(SJP), I started my new youth service and I average 25 youth each week and about 50 total in the service. I´ve organized a couple youth soccer teams in SJP to play games against teams in La Masica. I play with the older team, youth in their 20s. I´ve got some new friends that speal english. They´re four sisters that are teachers and secretary at the new bilingual school in SJP. So I´ve started spending time there hanging out also. It´s good to meet some people my age that speak english. My spanish is doing better, I´ve planning on preaching my first sermon in spanish in January. I really think I´ll be able to do it.
It seems with this rain, more people are getting sick. I got something right now, but I think I ate or drank something bad in the Colony last week. As for my wieght, I´m at 220 lbs now, that´s 35 lbs less since June. With the rain and being busy, I haven´t been able to go for a walk in about 2 weeks. All the kids in the orphanage are doing really good. Oh, I´ve been finally added to the chores list at the orphanage. So,now I feel more official here.
Well, I have more to type, but the internet is about to close so I need to hit the road and head back home. Take care and God Bless.

Thanks again for all your prayers!
Tim