Even with a 12 foot fence and barb wire we were robbed on Thursday night. Here in Bolivia propane tanks are used for everything. There are cars that run by hooking up a propane tank to them. We get our hot water and our stove works from a propane tank outside our house. They are called garafas in Spanish. Thursday night someone cut a hole in our fence right behind our house and came in and walked away with everyone's garafas. We had two of them outside because we didn't know any better. Our neighbors just lost one. It isn't a good feeling. Our garafa was hooked up right beside our bedroom window so they were right outside our window while we were sleeping. So until we get a new one we can't cook or have hot water. We have an alarm system in our house and I think we might start putting that on at night.
Another funny difference I thought of this morning was the milk comes in bags and weirdly doesn't have to be refridgerated until you open the bag. I asked and no one knows why you don't have to refridgerate milk even here in our heat but you don't.
Saturday morning the missionary guys play basketball at the school so Grant is playing basketball. One of his classes he teaches at the school is a basketball class and yesterday he came home with a bloody knee and I talked to Tim, a student, and he said his leg is totally mangled too. They have been getting into some serious basketball competition but they love it.
We are both very excited about an orphanage that Grant is getting involved with called Talita Cumi. The name means Child rise up and they need some help with projects and so Grant has been helping them and plans to be there whenever he can. This past Friday the kids from Talita Cumi got a chance to go swimming at a pool that one of WGM missionaries have. Grant went to help and one of the boys who is five couldn't swim because he has ring worm and he was crying and crying so he and Grant played on their own all day. I think it's sweet and I wish I could go with him at times but I love teaching--it just doesn't give you many chances to do other things during the day.
