Literally…tonight it didn’t just rain, it poured. Almost every building including our house has tin roofs so as it rains you definitely hear it. Normally it’s kind of fun if we’re at our house and hear the loud ruckus.

Tonight however, we were asked to come speak to a Malagasy youth group for their French service. It’s supposed to be the rainy season here and it’s been fairly dry. The past few days have been season high temps and we’ve been praying for rain! I’m reminded of my prayers in times of drought in Oklahoma, although Madagascar’s 90 degrees isn’t an Tulsa 116! ;-) As we drove to the service, we could see that the clouds were certainly building. The sky was black and the rain drops began to come down. Stephen remarked,”looks like the heavens might open on us…hopefully spiritually, but literally too!”

In we went and the torrential downpour began! We could tell the young people were hungry, so Stephen preached on through 5 power outages ;-) A very sweet Bible School girl came and sat next to me and helped translate some for me. Stephen asked me to share at the end because he had flown through his points to get done before power went out again. I talked for a brief minute and power went out again. I proceeded to use an iPhone flashlight so that the youth pastor could be seen by all as he closed service.

Then we sat in traffic in flooded streets. Can’t really describe a jam where no one moves for 45 minutes, cars are stalled because of flooded engines and of course sweet kids who live on the street are begging at your car windows! Oh how I wish I had a snack in my car to give to them :-(( and oh how quick I am to complain about traffic in Tulsa…although Dallas gave me some equal fights!

When we got home, our fridge went out because of power, so we’re praying our food doesn’t spoil before we can get a fuse tomorrow :-)

Also, in all efforts to save geckos like the one from my post a few days ago, one managed to die in my house today…well sort of inside. Our back door is sliding glass and it has a hand cranked metal door that slides down at night. We saw this gecko last night on the inside of the door and figured he was smart for finding a good place to grab food. Wrong! I tried ALL day to get him to move and he didn’t budge an inch! I couldn’t open the window and tonight I noticed he is a nasty brown color and still hasn’t moved. I also saw he has a major dent in his body like he was smashed by something. So a gecko died on my watch…so goes the circle of life here in Africa ;)

I also killed a spider with my husband’s shoe, but that warrants a smiley face instead ;-)

I’m thankful for a safe dry place to call home tonight, even if we had a long commute home, end up with spoiled food tomorrow and have some dead things on our hands.

BTW—correction on my post from yesterday—the were radiated tortoises from the desert, not sea turtles!