Wednesday, June 6, 2012

6/6/2012

  I'm alone - that rarely happens here!  It is nice for awhile then I begin to miss my companion.  He went to the temple tonight while I study so that works out well.  He feels he is doing something worthwhile and it gives me a chance to do my computer shortcut to spanish lessons. It is a whole different way of learning spanish so it is kind of fun.
  Just to note what a dust rag looks like here after you have "dusted"
This black dust is everywhere.  If you go without shoes your feet are black. (DeDe would love it!) It makes you wonder just how black your lungs must be!  I think it must be this corner we live on with all of the buses and taxis and big trucks with no emission control laws.  Plus the fact that in order to live in our apartment without air conditioning we have to keep the windows open and there is always a breeze.
   There was a article in the paper here today that said 40% of the births in this country are to girls who are under 18 years of age.  That is so sad.  They end up having the highest rate of C-sections anywhere.
   Our fruit man has been missing for a couple of days so today Scott went down the street where he lives and found his friend who said he was back in a room at the place he guards at night.  So the next thing I know Scott is calling "Herminita"  - which is me when he is warning me that he has brought someone home with him.  This guy was working for a doctor in his lab when the doctor had a stroke and could no longer work.  He works for three months then goes home to Haiti and gives his wife some money to support their two kids.  Now he is trying to sell fruit but didn't have enough money to buy fruit to sell.  He watched "Our Heavenly Father's  Plan" with Scott while they had lunch. He believes there is a God who watches over him and provides him with food when he has none.  He's not worried about starving to death. Makes you wonder about your own faith!
   
   
  
   

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