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Salam and Leprosy
I’ve been able to visit the sponsored children a bit more
now that the rainy season is ending. I
had heard the story of 2 children who had come for help with their father
riding in a donkey cart. His legs were
eaten away by leprosy. His name is Salarm and as it turns out,
my mother is sponsoring his oldest girl. As I
entered the courtyard, I greeted Salam in the native Moret language. He laughed and laughed and blessed me over
and over again. I was so touched by his
incredible attitude and fun personality as he sat there in the stench of his
own filth, unable to move on his own, working away at shelling peanuts with what is left of his hands and one
eye.
Elephantitis
Then there was the woman who grabbed my arm, did not speak,
but was clearly trying to tell me something.
Confused, I finally looked down and hope I managed to hide the horror of
seeing my first case of elephantitis.
She was asking me to pray for her.
It’s shocking to see this stuff is real.
Frogs In the Toilet
I think we must be in the midst of a plague of frogs. Or maybe the frogs are here because of the
plague of insects! Whatever - they’re
everywhere. One night as Stephanie and I
were sitting quietly in the room, we suddenly heard a loud thud in the toilet. We looked at each other, ran to the bathroom,
counted to 3 and lifted the toilet lid. There, staring us right in the face was a frog
– IN THE TOILET! He came right in
through the drain, and I’m told this was not the first time. As I was chasing another out of the room, he
ran into the bathroom and tried to make his escape the same way he came in –
through the shower drain. When I come
home at night, there are literally at least 100 in the courtyard, the majority
of them hanging out on the terrace fighting over the millions of insects. Oh well, I’m counting my blessings as I’ve
not yet seen a scorpion. (Although, I
might prefer a scorpion to the huge cockroaches.)
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