Saturday, 5/25/13
Feliz Sabado!
We woke up in Dr.
Patty’s house ready to go to his church. Jacque, Tabitha, Chad, Stephen and I
walked the 15 minutes to the church. This is the same church we went to when we
first arrived in La Paz 9 months ago. This time we went with the main financial
supporters of the church. We felt pretty important to go to church with the
Pattys.
Dr. Patty gave the
adult Sabbath school on the book of Habakuk. The service started. This church
seems to be the wealthiest in Bolivia. Two large screen TVs project the hymn
lyrics and the great sound system played the backtrack music for Tabitha. Tabs
blew us away with two gorgeous songs I have never heard of. The people in the
church were mesmerized. I do not think they have ever had a fuller voice
praising God in their sanctuary. She knocked it out of the park.
Then Mrs. Patty told
the children’s story. She enlisted all of our help. Chad was a Jewish preacher.
Stephen was some German scholar, and Dr. Patty was some South American guy. She
asked me to play the S. American dude, but then laughed when I pointed to my
skin and remarked of my exact resemblance to a dark-skinned Bolivian. I was up
for it, but she chose her husband for the sake of accuracy. The skit went
great.
Church finished and
we walked back home. Jacque and Tabs hooked us up with some great lentil
patties and Chad and I provided the guarana. After a coupe hours of reminiscing
of our times together, we performed some “lay ministries”. Okay, okay…so we
took a nap. When we woke up were completely refreshed.
Chad and I left the
house at 6:30 were then ready to begin yet another adventure. We were going to
catch a bus to the salt flats of Uyuni. We were super excited. We did not
account for two things: 1) that the bus left at 7 p.m. instead of 9 p.m. and 2)
that it was the festival of the snake, condor, and puma. We said our touching
goodbyes to baker Steve and left for the bus terminal.
We came across a ¼
mile line of people. We thought they were waiting in line to participate in
festive parade, but no…we found out they just wanted to cross the street. We
found out as we were at the front of the line. Thankfully, one of the officers
accepted the fact we were dumb, ignorant gringos and put us in the line only 30
feet from the road. Despite this, it still took us 30 minutes to cross the
street.
We finally reached
the bus station to find that the last bus left at 7. Oh well, there was a
silver lining. It was Stephen’s birthday tomorrow!! I wanted to make it
special. We spent an hour on the faster wi-fi and then headed back to the house
at 10 where surprised Stephen greeted us in open arms. I goofily said,
“Stephen, we missed you too much man. Now we are just soooooo happy to spend
your birthday with you!” His reply was a bashful: “I am pretty happy too.” It
was quite the moment. J
My parents are going
to treat Stephen at the best vegan restaurant in the city tomorrow. Chad’s
parents gave Steve a big thing of olive oil. You are quite spoiled Stephen!
Haha!!
Sleepy, dream,
close-the-eyes, snore, sleep talk, cuddle under the warm covers, sleep walk
time!! Night!
**Keep
adventurizing!...I know I will!**
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