So this week I thought I'd try to talk more about the living conditions of most people here. The first attached picture is what a typical "house" is like here. Each "house" has about 5-10 single rooms, made of concrete with scrap metal as the roof. Families each rent out a single room. There are no bathrooms, usually there is a concrete platform for people to take bucket showers with. Also no running water, which sounds a lot worse than it actually is, most "houses" have a well in the middle where people can get water for cleaning and bathing. Drinking water is always bought separately (prefiltered). Each room gets insanely hot during the day because there's no ventilation and they are basically concrete ovens so pretty much everyone goes out in the middle of the day and looks for shade of bigger trees to stay cool.
Second picture is of Siaw pretending to fall into the baptismal font after we finished up on Saturday.
We got the crazy announcement today that we'll be able to video call and talk with our families every week instead of twice a year now. Huge change for everybody here.
Hope you guys all had a great week.
Elder Remer
