Mala mexico day 4

Dear all,

This will be a quick brief blog as I was just told we are leaving in 10 min for the internet cafe.

I wanted to write to you all about what happened yesterday evening. I think I last wrote about yesterday morning and afternoon.

Yesterday was the "fast" day so we did not eat until 4:30 pm. I had a very bad headache by the end of the day and was hoping that when I finally ate I would feel better. After dinner we loaded into 2 trucks, about 25 of us and headed into the closest town to us called La Coloninia and went to someone's house where Jason was going to preach and teach. Just as we got into the trucks to go Dossie suddenly felt very sick and decided to stay home. My headache was getting a bit worse but I was curious about seeing the home church so I elected to go.

The closer we got to the church house the worse I felt. I got out of the truck and asked where their banya was and was directed to a tiny thrown together wood scrap house with shredded plastic hanging up as walls around the place. There in the center was a bench of wood with a large hole cut out in the middle. This was the toilet. The smell indicated so. I held my breath and went in. Let's just say I walked away from there feeling worse then when I went in.

I tried to push through and went back to the house to sit. I felt dizzy and like my head was gonna explode. The service started with singing and everyone standing and clapping their hands. The room began to sway and I felt like I was gonna throw up. I tried to sing and listen to Nicole interpret the words. "the lord in my healer, and my strength , he is the lifter up of my head, he loves me" I tried to picture Christ touching my head and healing me…I swallowed, I breathed deep, but just felt worse by the minute. Finally I turned to Nicole and said, "I feel sick." "Can I go lay down in the truck?" She told me to step outside and get fresh air. I thought that was a great idea since I would rather throw up outside instead of inside. As we went out the back door and passed by the front I suddenly heard Jason's voice say: "Sister Mala, you're on!" "Im on?" I thought to myself….you have got to be kidding. "Is he asking me to play a song right now…????" Well…he was. I slowly walked forward in a daze and remember him getting my guitar out and looking up I saw Nicole look at me wide eyed and say, "Can you do it?" I heard myself saying, "Yes …I can do it."

So with my head pounding and swallowing hard I began to sing the one and only song I knew in Spanish…"Busque primero el reigno de Dios." "Seek you first the kingdom of God". Everyone there seemed to know it and sang with me. Then I played the song I have decided to follow Jesus…and they all sang that in Spanish as I played. God blessed that moment it seemed cuz Nicole told me later it was very beautiful. Right after that I immediately put the guitar down and was met by the lady of the house. She escorted me to her room and lifted a tent of blankets to reveal a large queen size bed with mountains of blankets on it. Nicole told me to lay down. Tucking my jacket under my head I lay down on the bed laying as stool as I could. The funny thing about the bed was the people lay in it "width wise" because they are so short….it was cute…I fit just fine…. Earlier in the day Asher told me he never realized how very tall I was until he saw me standing next to all the Mexican ladies.

After the service Nicole came and got me. I got into the truck and lay down in the back. When I got home I pulled a large garbage can over to my bed in case I was gonna throw up. Then I took ibrupropen and went right to sleep. Dossie was feeling better as she had taken ibrupropen 3 hours earlier. I awoke this morning feeling better. I am definitely gonna drink more water today.

There was also a fire in the hot water pipe by the bathroom while we were gone. One of the girls forgot to push the long piece of wood back up into the heater so it fell out onto the large wood pile of scraps outside on the ground near the pipe and all that wood caught on fire. Thank God Sed stayed home cuz Dossie stayed home. He put the fire out but it did damage and we had to wait a good while before we could get showers again.

Pray for Manuel, the big one, cuz he really needs to obey but does not and his grandma gets in the way of him getting his much needed consequences that would actually help him obey. The grandma is thinking about leaving today. It is so sad because all they would do is go back and live on the street.

I love you all. Keep praying for us. We feel you so with us. Also pray for children's church tomorrow…about 75 kids to come.

Love,

Mala