As a Nebraskan, any time I feel the earth shake, I call it an earthquake. Since they happen so frequently in Arequipa, the locals scoff at calling a shaking sensation an 'earthquake' until it reaches 6 or 7 on the Richter Scale. "That's just a 'tremor'," they'll correct. So far we've had two in the two weeks we've been here. They always seem to happen at night when one is lying in bed wondering if he should put on clothes and run outside (or first run outside and then put on clothes!). I have the US Geological Survey earthquake website as a bookmark on my browser so that I can check how big the earthquakes were and how far away they were from here. Here is last night's 5.2 earthquake located about 50 miles south of here:
Today Amy has a Bible study with young women from our small church and in the evening, I'm doing a special 'marriage seminar' that our pastor had scheduled even before we came back.
Amy's been having more headaches and has been really tired lately, so pray that she feels better. Her headaches had gone away, but have crept back in, and she's had more ataxia (unsteady gait) lately. She is scheduled for her next MRI on Wednesday.
Thanks for praying,
Allen & Amy
