Sunday Catastrophe

Adam's parents and grandma are due to arrive here in the morning and we have been preparing for their arrival. We have been busy cleaning and getting the house ready and in the midst of all of that, our hot water heater that is in the crawl space above our bathroom busted and has made a real mess. It has caused mold to grow in our bathroom. Our landlord has been gone to the island and has not been able to take care of it (they take care of things for the first 2 years and then we're on our own after that). We finally got a call from her on Saturday and she is suppose to call a plumber this morning. I just pray that they are able to fix it today since our company arrives in the morning, but as you know, this is Greece and we don't have very many high hopes of that happening. :) I am just thanking God that this happened while it is still under the 2 year contract and that we don't have to pay for it!! God's timing is best even though it doesn't seem so to us sometimes.

A couple of weeks ago, we had to replace our kitchen faucet and then yesterday, I went to change the trash under our sink, and found a huge leak in the pipes! I got the water up and put a big bowl under the pipes to catch the water until we can get it fixed. By this time, I had Emily down for a nap and was getting ready to get in the shower before our Bible Study. People were to be at our house within an hour and all of the sudden.....our power went out! I didn't panic because I just figured that a breaker flipped. Adam checked, and all of the breakers were fine. He checked the main breakers in the house and it was fine also. After calling a friend for help (poor Adam doesn't know much about all of these things to do repairs and things) we determined that it was the main breaker in the basement of the building. By this time, one of our African men (Michael) was here for Bible study and he went down to check it out with Adam. It was the one fuse that only the electric company can fix, however, Michael rigged it some way to get us through the Bible study, but told us not to use any more power than was necessary. It worked!

Later after the study, a Greek friend of ours called and told us that there is a number at ΔΕΗ (the electric company) that you can call and they should come even tonight and fix it. We called and they sent a man over and when he looked at the "rigged" fuse that Michael had fixed... he said "Well, you have power and this fuse is fine, so there is nothing I can do... Why did you call me here?". I was so aggravated at him! I told Adam, "Well, we will just use everything like normal and run our air conditioners like normal and then when it blows and we have no power we will call them back and tell them that now we have no power!" When we finally got into bed last night, we could only laugh a bit at all of the things that are happening all at once.

Now it is 10:39 am on Monday and Adam's parents will be here in 24 hours and we still have a leaky pipe and a busted water heater. Our missionary friend across town just called and said that he has a electrician friend that sold him the fuse that we need for our power and Adam has left to go and get it. I am waiting for the call to say that the plumber is coming (by faith of course, HA HA), and Adam's dad said he would help with the leaky pipe when he got here. Yesterday it all seemed very overwhelming, but this morning, things are looking a bit better. Please pray that we get all of these things worked out!

Brandie