Judah In Mexico

Good morning y’all this is Judah P. Fickett speaking on this beautiful Thursday.

On Saturday I mainly just rested and read. In the evening we got the first wave of rain from Gabrielle (the storm).

On Sunday I went to church then came home and rested. At about 6 it started to rain again and I started to read again. At about 8 water started to seep out from under my bathroom door. By 8:30 all of the ground level shower drains were spewing water. Thus we started to sweep (yes sweep) the water into inside courtyard.

While we were doing this, Señor Jose opened the drain into the outside courtyard. After that the water started going back down the drains. For the next thirty minutes we worked on cleaning up the resulted mess. Then the courtyard got too full of water, so the water started coming in again. So then we had to rig a pump from the courtyard to the street. When all was said and done it was 11. I then took a shower, ate some frosted flakes, then went to bed.

On Monday I was really tired. After lessons I went to the office and finished installing the spotlight I started on Friday. Throughout the entire day I was feeling really tired and slightly sick so I did not have a great day. But my day was made when I got a letter right as I was leaving the office (by the way it was 10 days from the postmarked day for aproximate arrival time).

On Tuesday I installed a flagpole, it was fun and scary. On Wednesday I installed another light and fixed the flagpole. Today I went to lessons (which I did all week) then came to the office and started this journaling.

I should be moving to Mitla within two weeks. Please pray that that goes smoothly. Also pray that I will start getting better sleep, I have not had a good night’s rest for about two weeks.