Prayed for Rain, and it Came

Tonight I told my wife, "when we pray for rain, we must expect it." God has brought a big rain storm in tonight here in Kisumu and the winds with it in the beginning brought about 2 inches of water into our upstairs balcony (which apparently wasn't draining properly... glad to know now)... so we had quite the adventure of keeping our house from flooding...and acted like we were on a sinking ship and started bailing water from our balcony (I'm sure our night guard was having quite the show, with my wife singing praise songs, and me singing 'yo-ho yo-ho a Kenyan life for me'. We laughed through the whole thing and had to fetch buckets of all shapes and sizes to put under new found leaks in several of our rooms (including one that developed just over our bed *sigh*). Moving our queen size bed with attached mosquito net frame wasn't the easiest task. But we thank the Lord for the heat in the day time so that things will dry off sometime tomorrow. We'd planned to call for some repair people tomorrow but remembered that it is a holiday here tomorrow and so not sure if they'll be working or not. Hopefully we can get the leaks in the roof fixed and figure out a better drainage system for our balcony. Any way, just a little story to share (and an informal prayer request as well).