Well....Ix-Nay on the street-side sugar cane juice. We are alive, but not without bouts of intestinal rejection. We will stick with the safe stuff. Saturday evening we had another major rainstorm. We remembered part way through that we needed milk for Sunday (we invited all the missionaries over to our place for a family home evening - complete with home-made brownies). We waited until about 8 p.m. when most of the rain stopped, but the moat had returned. Driving through a narrow lake with water up to your axle is a little freaky. You hope the road is solid underneath - but you can't see it. Milk is the most expensive purchase we make on a regular basis. It costs $4.20 for 2 liters (about $8/gallon - if you could buy a gallon). Boxed milk (which is delicious) is the same price. We also paid $3.10 for a Lindt Swiss-Chocolate candy bar (100g). Erin is carefully parsing it out (3 tiny squares/day) to make it last. Real milk chocolate is a true luxury.

Solar lantern

The family home evening with the missionaries was great. We showed them the you-tube video of the 3 year-old girl singing "Gethsemane." If you haven't seen it, I recommend it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWIx24J00Wc). We then had each share their favorite scripture story about Jesus. Just as we ended the power went out (major thunder storm). We turned on our solar-powered lantern and sang the hymn, "Master, the tempest is raging." It was awesome. The missionaries have great voices so we had full harmony. We cut up the brownies and ate them by lantern and device light. Mmmmmnm.