Ear we go again!

Hello All!

Apparently my body does not fully agree with the Mumbai rains, depite all the training I had growing up in Juneau. Sunday evening I began to feel a little sick, and by monday morning I was in the hospital again, this time with an ear infection. As a result I have spent much of the last three days in our apartmartment. I wish I could say that my suffering was a direct result of my gospel witness, because then I would be much more motivated to rejoice in it. As it is, I'm pretty sure that my ear got infected primarily because of my own stupidity. The infection most likely began shortly after I used a rolled up piece of newspaper to clean my ears. But I will rejoice in these circumstances never the less, because God has used the time for good. I am pretty scatterbrained most of the time and have a difficult time organizing my thoughts without concerted effort, so the last few days gave me a great opportunity to nothing but reflect on my experiences so far. He works all things out for good and I'm pretty much back to normal now.

Since most of my time since my last update has been spent doing a whole lot nothing, I don't have a lot to report. Please pray for the community in the slum which we are working in. 2 days ago two children were killed while playing with a bottle filled with chemicals when it exploded. They weren't apart of our school or children that we knew personally, but pray that God would use this to draw people to himself.

That's basically it. I leave Mumbai a week from today so hopefully I will be able to give a better update then.

Kyle

AIE #4
When I told my Indian roommates that my ear was hurting really bad on monday, their first guess of what could have caused it confirmed my worst fear. They thought that most likely the pain was the result of a bug that had crawled into my ear and made its home there. In order to find out that was the case Dinesh (my roommate) poured a little water in my ear as I lay on my side. He then began to describe, primarily through motions, what it would feel like if the bug were crawlling out of my ear. I almost wish that it had been a bug in my ear simply because if it had come out anything at all like he described it the whole procedure would have been worth it. But, sadly there was no bug.