Quarantine edition: 6 weeks in

We're into our 6th week of quarantine thanks to Covid. What an odd time of life that we are all living in. I know everyone has their own story of how Covid is affecting them.

For those interested, here's some of my thoughts:

1. I am SO thankful that we live on a 12 acre campus with other humans. Yes we are 'stuck', but at least we're not confined to our homes.

Happy that we're stuck with these people

2. Long distance communication with grandparents: Some things that the World is having to learn, we, as international missionaries have already had to overcome - our kids have grown up video-calling their grandparents as part of their 'normal'. 

3. The poverty and desperation of our communities now being out of work for 6 weeks is AWEFUL. Because they already live on $3-$8 dollars a day, and only live week to week,  to make NO income for this long means that people are truly, 100% out of money. 

This is Maria and her family - we built a home for them a few years ago :) and now get to keep up the relationship

I love getting to include the girls on helping with the food.

    

4. I'm thankful that we have been creating relationships with the community leaders for years now - it's been awesome to work through them as they help us identify who needs the food bags the most. We are giving out about 80 bags of food a week to various communities - attempting to rotate the lists of who gets it each week and trying to cover the need.

Mike is my partner when we give out food. Tristan stays home with Gabe

5. We are each allowed to go to the bank, grocery store, gas station, or pharmacy one day a week, based on the last number of our ID card. Otherwise you're not allowed to be out.  All communities (even rural) have created check points where the community men are checking your ID's, and fumigating your car with bleach water.   In order to enter Comayagua, they have set up a huge portable car wash thing that fumigates your car (it's taking almost 2 hours to get through the line to get into the city to start that shopping).  In some communities they are making you get out of your car and they spray your hands and feet with bleach water.

(Although I don't know that this is helping, they're trying with what they have!)

6. The unknown of how long this is going to last is very difficult.

our 'helper' all the time

We caved and ended up putting up the pool (behind the Mission house so it's far away from Gabe deciding to swim without us)