tuesday, wednesday and so far..thursday

hey everyone!
i don't feel like typing in caps today, so sorry if that gets on your nerves. neways, so the last time i wrote i was up early cuz of jet lag, well that sure did wear off quickly. i definitely don't have jet lag anymore. in fact i would sleep late if i could, but i can't cuz we're too busy. tuesday(after i typed my last posting,) we went to go on some AIDS home visits. dr.pepper's church has an organization called "words of hope" where there's a group of 2, 3 or 4 people consisting of at least one doctor and one counseler. first they talk to the person to make sure they have all the right medicines and they know how to take them, then the counseler talks to them about thier faith. they said we got lucky cuz, even though we only got to visit two people in two days, both of them spoke both english and run-yan-kore. most of the time we could understand them, but you all know how the prices sounded when they first came, especially stephen, and how we couldn't understand a word they said, but gradually we came to understand them? yeah, it's like that here, except you don't gradually understand them, you just hope you can get what they're saying. anyways, tuesday we went to a lady's house where her husband had died from AIDS, so she got tested and she had it also. i'm pretty sure she was a christian though, that's good. we also talked to her daughter a lot, and she was a christian also. so we shared some encouraging verses with them and went on our way, but not until after they had given us a papaya. they did that in oaxaca too, everyone is just so generous. no matter how poor they were, they would want to give you something, no matter how small. we looked for other patients to visit, but either they weren't home, or they didn't give us proper directiones to thier house. after the visiting tuesday, we came home, had lunch, chilled with some other missionaries filling pill bottles for a clinic thing we're doing this weekend, they went home, chilled some more, had dinner and yeah that's about it. of, btw mrs.pepper's a GREAT cook!

wednesday: woke up at 7:30, got a shower, ate breakfast(yum), went to the church to meet some other people to go on some AIDS visits. more about that. first we dropped off this other girl, debbie, to work at the AIDS clinic. we got a tour of the place, not that it's big. it used to be just this little tin shack thing, but now they've been able to build some buildings around it and stuff. also some great news, dr.pepper has been able to get almost unlimited medicine for treating AIDS! and they have free testing avalible at thier hospital, so lots more people are getting treated then have been before. after dropping debbie off at the clinic we went to a small village trying to find some patients to visit. finally we found this one lady, they called her mama phillip because she was the mom of phillip, who was a very nice lady. she had been taking her medicine, but she just didn't understand that you had to take it everyday, and she had run out of it, so we gave her some more. we read to her out of the bible and found out that she had become a christian in early 2003, just before her husband died of AIDS. after we talked to mama phillip we went back to the church. o yeah, did i mention that my dad has been leading a pastor's conference this week, not doing the AIDS visits? yeah, he's going to go with them on some AIDS visits next week. so we went back to the church, met my dad and my mom decided that we needed to eat lunch with the pastors, that is, the local food. matoke(they look like banana's but let me tell you, they do not taste like bananas at all, they kind-of taste like potatoes, except i like potatoes.), posho(a corn meal kind of thing. it was ok, but i wouldn't eat it if i had a choice.), rice(duh), beans(duh), g-nut sauce(isn't that such an awesome name?!?! it's like a peanut sauce. it's pretty good. haha g-nut, i think julie would like them. you get it? hahaha..haha..ha..ok maybe not.), i think that was all we had to eat. it was ok, except for the fact that we had to eat with our hand. yes i said hand. no untensils. also, note the singular of the word "hand". you could only eat with your right hand. for those of you who know me well know that i'm not that talented! neways, we came home, filled one to many bottles of cough syrup for the clinic this weekend, and had a women's thing here. mrs.muzslay taught the women's thing. she did a great job! i think the women had a great time. after the bible study we ate dinner, told many a funny story, haha i laugh just thinking about the tales we told last night. just imagine a story about canoeing with two guys named win and chin. yeah, they were funny. neways, after story telling we went to bed and slept.

thursday: so far i've woken up, ate breakfast and sat here checking my e-mails and stuff. i'm not doing the AIDS visits thing today. actually i think i'm gonna go hang out with the other missionaries kids here. they have a 13 year old girl. hallelujah! i thought i wasn't going to have contact with some girls my age for a month. wouldn't that have been awful! well anyways, that's pretty much it. we're going tomorrow to a clinic thing all weekend. sleeping on dirt floors. the whole shebang. well i g2g! ttyl! i miss you all!
jenna