Random Blog Friday: Slowly Introducing Parasites Into Our Diets

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Our water comes from a small black pipe that runs from the top of the mountain we live on. The only things is, we’ve been told that the water has parasites in it. Now, when I think of parasites it’s not a positive thing. I think of people with bloated stomachs or people having uncontrollable diarrhea because of these microscopic things that are living their stomachs. Having said that, we haven’t been real excited about drinking the water here... understandable, right? But we’ve been here for over a month now and haven’t drank hardly any water at all because we’re so paranoid. We’ve been drinking a little bit of bottled water but it’s too expensive to solely drink that. We do have this little cheap plastic thing attached to our faucet that “supposedly” purifies our water. I say “supposedly” because this thing is so ghetto I doubt that it removes anything at all from the water. But, since water is a huge part of “actually living”, we’ve started slowly drinking the water trying and acclimate ourselves to it. I mean, there’s thousands of people who live here and they drink the water, right? And they’re not walking down the street pooping themselves accidentally or anything like that so we’ve thrown caution to the wind and begun introducing the local water into our diets. Keep your fingers crossed. Haha! Now on a positive note, if I do get chronic diarrhea maybe it would aid in me losing weight? I’ve been here a little over a month and I’ve only lost about 7 pounds so maybe that could speed up the weight loss process? Just a thought: )

Please pray for us as we’re preparing to minister in a new school this coming Monday. The Federal Police met with Brad and Carolyn a few weeks ago and wanted us to come and put on a program about America where we can also share the Gospel. It’s in a town we haven’t ministered in yet so it’s a great opportunity.

The pics today are just from the camp property, MJ and a the kids coming back from a walk in the rain one day, one of my nephews (Boaz) and the huge carp he caught on a cane pole, and Maryssa and “a friend”... haha!

Have a great weekend and we’ll be back again on Monday!

Love Ya,

Jim