As most do, we vowed to love each other in health AND in sickness. Two months after we married, I learned the first time what it meant to love someone in sickness. Matt and I spent the summer in Honduras after we were married. For a few weeks our room was the maid's quarters. To give you an idea of the size of this room, imagen two twin size beds mashed together and sqished between the four walls of the room. Oh, and we had a bathroom of sorts that was a cinder block room with a toilet and a spicket coming out of the wall for bathing. Our second night in this room, Matt got sick. I don't mean with a cold either. He had got some bacteria in his system and was sick from the top and the bottom. In order, to sleep that night, I had to clean the whole room and HAND WASH his sick clothes. I remember thinking this was definately what loving during periods of sickness meant.
Since returning to our home in Costa Rica, one of the three of us has been sick almost the whole time. I have had a stomach virus and a flu type thing with fever and a cold, Haley has had an ear infection, throat infection, and broncheolitis, and today Matt woke up with a stomach virus. We have spent our days caring for one another and going to and from the pharmacy. Our kitchen has become a miniature drugstore with a schedule of when each of us takes what medicine. It is very difficult for us to learn a new language when we don't even feel like crawling out of bed in the morning.
Haley and I stayed home from class yesterday, and Matt stayed home today. I had to do a Bible study in my conversation class today which made my throat hurt more than it did this morning. Matt was certain he would feel well enough to come to the last three hours of class, but I came home to find him laying down in the bathroom.
We ask that you pray for healing for our family. Please pray that our bodies will be well so that we can better server our Lord. Thank you always for your prayers and encouragement to our family.
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