Fri. Aug 28

After Miss Christina’s yummy iaplots(version of crepes) breakfast. We went to Choygoria Sun. School. There was a nice little crowd of about 25 boys and girls, a couple moms, and then a couple old grandmas wanting to see the eye doctor. 

On to Chakrakhali Sun. School, about 7 big boys, Nee-tie(the rickshaw van driver), and the man of the house, Rajib (42 yrs old with salt and pepper hair that’s getting to be more salt than pepper and is like another grandpa to Gentry) always is ready and waiting to watch Gentry during S.S. After S.S. they wanted us to come to their garden, which surrounds their fish pond behind their house, and they picked cucumbers and a papaya for us to take home💛

Rickshaw van ride back to the house where Jaira and Miss Christina helped with lunch prep while Maddie washed up the breakfast dishes

Ham that had been made using tender quick, liquid smoke, brown sugar, and local pork 

3:00 is the scheduled time for doctrine class with Lewis and Purnima but they are always 15-20 min early which makes for a very short afternoon for us.. we enjoy cold tea as we have study the lesson of the afternoon. 

4:00 service

On the way home, one of my friends beckoned to me from inside her house so I went in to see what she had in mind. She was sitting on the bed with her sleeping 15 month baby boy. She says he’s sick with Dengue (mosquito born illness) fevers, shaking,….. she had about 5 medicines for him there and she’d come from Dhaka to be with her family while he got better. It was only a month or 2 ago that it was her husband that was so sick and in the hosp with this illness😏

Lewis is always right on it with getting back to the house and getting his easy bike out the gate. And Kobir and Liton like to catch a ride with him. Shanto needed something so they were hanging around a bit and we invited them in for no bake cookies and leftover ham that we pulled out of the fridge. Pork is expensive in this country and a special meat for those that aren’t Muslim. So the ham was thoroughly enjoyed, Especially the fatty pcs!!😌 

I was glad to see Lonnie walk in the door, after going to the pharmacy dokan with some people that showed up at our gate, as Shanto was asking a question that I felt like I could explain with scripture but didn’t feel like it was my place to point these scriptures out to my brother in the faith..