No Water

When we took Spanish last summer, the teacher was teaching us about talking about the future in Spanish. He said that if something were going to happen come hell or high water such as us going to Santo Domingo, we would just use the present tense. I said that hell might not stop us from going to Santo Domingo but high water might. Yesterday and this morning, we had a different problem: No Water. The entire Casa de Huespedes did not have any nor did the temple. The water in the temple and in the Casa de Huespedes is drinkable, however, we all buy these five gallon blue bottles of water in case of emergency and most of us use it for our drinking water. We have been counciled to have several in case there is some disaster which deprives us of water. There is a water man who delivers it right to our door. He comes every other week and sometimes more often. We just put the empty bottle out with some money under it and one day there is a full bottle there or whatever we paid for. Last night, when we had the water outage, we had two full water bottles and a portion of a third one so we weren't too worried about drinking water. However, yesterday I was a participant in initiatory--as almost every day--and my hair was very oily. Our other biggest concern was flushing the toilet. We realized that if this were to drag on very long, we could run out of the water we had very quickly. No one here seemed to know what the problem was. I asked a security guard at the temple gate what the problem was. He explained something in Spanish which I didn't understand at all and then at the end said the problem would be fixed soon. That I did understand. When I returned from my walk, we had water. We've learned that the well went dry and that is not supposed to happen. Evidently they trucked some water in for us and they are working on the well today. There are only two days every six weeks where there is lots of hot water here: Between when the old batch of young elders and sisters have left on their assignments and the new batch come in. The old ones left yesterday. We thought it would be too bad to miss our only two days for really hot showers. There is a senior couple, the Calls, serving in a remote branch. They come in periodically to wash their clothes and have a hot shower. They were here yesterday, of course.