I arrived home yesterday at like noon. My family and I went and ate at Mexican Inn but I didn't eat much because I was feeling sick to my stomach! My sister and I went to the movies last night and it was thirteen dollars per person for a 3-D movie! Can you believe that!? My sister ended up paying for half of my ticket because I refused to pay that much. I feel like I've become a Peruvian, everything is so expensive here! Today has been interesting, its been hard for me to get used to the luxuries of America. Every time I flush toilet paper down the toilet I feel guilty and have to remind myself that the toilet will not overflow. This is just one of the many things that have been throwing me off. I was shocked last night when I took a shower and the water got hot so fast! And don't even get me started on this Texas heat, oh Lordy! I have to go sign up for classes since all mine got dropped while I was away!
-Love in Christ
Monday, August 2, 2010
Not Complete - by Kelsey (more to come)
After my first day volunteering in the clinic I couldn't stop thinking about how much I enjoyed it. Getting the chance to care for people & their health when they are in need is a passion God has given me. As I sat by the fire that Sunday night reflecting on the day & all that had gone on in the clinic, I heard a still, small voice speak to me when I was least expecting it. "Kelsey, this is what I've called you to. I have made you to do this for all your life for the glory of My name. All else pales in comparison to the joy you will know serving my children in my name through my love." Suddenly it all seemed to make sense. My desire had become that of the Lord. With the passion He has instilled within me and the love He has given me, God was just waiting for me to understand what it is that He is calling me to. Nate Saint puts it best in the book Jungle Pilot when he says, "Have you noticed that when a man finds the will of the Lord for his life, there always seems to be an evident relationship between the talents or gifts or preparation the Lord has given him and the job the Lord has called him to do?...Now we rejoice in God's gracious care for our lives even before they were entirely His -- preparing us specifically & without any wasted motion for the job He had for us to do!" God gave me the desire to be a nurse & the passion to help people in a medical capacity long before I began to feel any leading toward mission work and certainly before I went to Peru and felt a specific call to overseas medical mission work for the rest of my life. Thinking of all that God is & all He has done, I am taken back in awe. Amazement is the only word I can think of to describe the overwhelming love that has grown in my heart for the Lord, multiplying faster than I can understand. In the light of His glory & grace, I feel so inadequate to be used by Him yet precious & treasured as a child of God who is blessed to be called upon to be used as an instrument sharing God's glory & grace with souls lost in darkness.
As I dwell on memories of Haiti & the love /god has given me for those people, I can't help but see a connection between that and the immeasurable joy I feel in helping to restore health to people. I felt an immense burden on my heart as God continued to speak to me more clearly than ever before. "I have given you the desire to heal people's bodies so that then through you they may also hear of me and I may heal their soul & restore them." Since that evening my mindset on life has changed, and I've seen God teaching me in preparation for the work He has in store for me.
I have always had dreams for my life -- many of those same dreams every other young person has of marriage, a quaint life in a nice house, kids, and a fulfilling job. But God has changed my dreams. He has given me a passionate desire to live a radical life sold out to God. And I can't live a radical life with the same traditional life & dreams as the rest of America. A fulfilling job is nice, but it means nothing if the rest of your life is confortable & self-centered. You can give your 2 cents of meaningful humanitarian work for others and then return home to all the comforts & conveniences you could ever need. You can live most hours of your life indulging yourself while ... (more to come)
As I dwell on memories of Haiti & the love /god has given me for those people, I can't help but see a connection between that and the immeasurable joy I feel in helping to restore health to people. I felt an immense burden on my heart as God continued to speak to me more clearly than ever before. "I have given you the desire to heal people's bodies so that then through you they may also hear of me and I may heal their soul & restore them." Since that evening my mindset on life has changed, and I've seen God teaching me in preparation for the work He has in store for me.
I have always had dreams for my life -- many of those same dreams every other young person has of marriage, a quaint life in a nice house, kids, and a fulfilling job. But God has changed my dreams. He has given me a passionate desire to live a radical life sold out to God. And I can't live a radical life with the same traditional life & dreams as the rest of America. A fulfilling job is nice, but it means nothing if the rest of your life is confortable & self-centered. You can give your 2 cents of meaningful humanitarian work for others and then return home to all the comforts & conveniences you could ever need. You can live most hours of your life indulging yourself while ... (more to come)
Home - by Alison
We leave today for home, it feels so strange to say that! Sorry that I haven´t updated this in so long, I`ve just been having so much fun in Puno! It was very hard to leave Conima, especially the children considering that they were holding onto my shirt begging me not to go! We have had so much fun in Puno and have been staying at a really nice hotel which is a nice change! We took a tour of the floating reed islands, that was awesome! Yesterday we went and saw some Incan ruins, tombs of their ancestors. The food here is so awesome too! I have to admit that I am excited and ready to be home, especially since I`ll only be home for two days before leaving again! We will land around noon tomorrow. Please be praying for our safety!
-Love in Christ
-Love in Christ
Debrief and Vacation - by Heather
Well, we finally made it to Huancane after waiting for the bus for a few extra hours. Monday we got to hang out with the Huancane Girls and the Moho Team and talk about our summers - the ups and downs and what all we saw God do.
Tuesday we had competitions for the End of Summer X Games - Texas (Conima) vs. Georgia (Huancane and Moho). Our team won the fastest mountain hike competition, Huancane girls won the trice (pronounced tree-see) race, and we won the volleyball game. The trice race was probably the most fun. Trices are bicycle driven carts used like a taxi. One person rides the bike part and pedals and two people can ride in the cart attached to the front. John and Pastor Ruben found two drivers who let us borrow their trices for our race. We raced through the main street of Huancane, down and back. It was a lot of fun, but it was hard uphill. Unfortunately our opponents had gotten to practice the day before and they took notes from the Peruvian trice drivers and got off and pushed up the hill. It was a lot of fun though. And Ruben drove us back down the road afterwards. After the volleyball competition we played more volleyball for fun and then Andrea made rice pudding at Ruben and Louisa´s house. We sat around and ate it, then went to dinner. After dinner we came back and gathered in the common room in the hostel. At Jeremy S´s suggestion we had a foot washing ceremony, or whatever you want to call it, for John, Sonia and Pastor Ruben. We just washed their feet and each prayed over them. It was really cool. Lots of tears. I would have been fine if it weren´t for Edith, Ruben´s young daughter, but when I saw her face I started crying too. I think we all were by the end. I´m really glad we did it. Afterwards we played cards and watched Kung Fu Panda :)
This morning we got up and packed to head to Puno for our vacation time. There was supposed to be a transportation strike that would keep us from coming, but it didn´t end up happening, which we were very grateful for. We got here in time to move into our rooms and go to lunch. On the way into town in the van we saw a white couple on the street and we all stared at them because we haven´t seen other white people in so long. Then we realized we are just like the Peruvians. We stared and Jeremy told them ¨Hola!¨ It´s so strange being in a tourist city. There are so many people here who aren´t Peruvian. And it is weird thinking about how everyone here just thinks we are other tourists. We kind of want to tell them, no, we´ve been living here for 2 months and know a lot more about the real Peru than all the random tourists. But it´s nice being in a new place and being able to enjoy nicer things. We had a delicious lunch near our hotel. The best part was the appetizer of avacado filled with essentially a chicken salad. It was really good. Then we walked around the main tourist street. Now I´m back in our wonderful hotel. It was just built in the past year or two. It´s really modern and we got a really good deal on our rooms. Then our room got upgraded to a suite. So, we finally get to have definitely hot showers and there is a jacuzzi tub I know we will all enjoy before going home. It´s so nice to relax after this summer and get to visit cool places here in Puno.
Tomorrow we are going to the floating islands and then Friday we are going to see some ruins. I´ll let you know how it is!
Tuesday we had competitions for the End of Summer X Games - Texas (Conima) vs. Georgia (Huancane and Moho). Our team won the fastest mountain hike competition, Huancane girls won the trice (pronounced tree-see) race, and we won the volleyball game. The trice race was probably the most fun. Trices are bicycle driven carts used like a taxi. One person rides the bike part and pedals and two people can ride in the cart attached to the front. John and Pastor Ruben found two drivers who let us borrow their trices for our race. We raced through the main street of Huancane, down and back. It was a lot of fun, but it was hard uphill. Unfortunately our opponents had gotten to practice the day before and they took notes from the Peruvian trice drivers and got off and pushed up the hill. It was a lot of fun though. And Ruben drove us back down the road afterwards. After the volleyball competition we played more volleyball for fun and then Andrea made rice pudding at Ruben and Louisa´s house. We sat around and ate it, then went to dinner. After dinner we came back and gathered in the common room in the hostel. At Jeremy S´s suggestion we had a foot washing ceremony, or whatever you want to call it, for John, Sonia and Pastor Ruben. We just washed their feet and each prayed over them. It was really cool. Lots of tears. I would have been fine if it weren´t for Edith, Ruben´s young daughter, but when I saw her face I started crying too. I think we all were by the end. I´m really glad we did it. Afterwards we played cards and watched Kung Fu Panda :)
This morning we got up and packed to head to Puno for our vacation time. There was supposed to be a transportation strike that would keep us from coming, but it didn´t end up happening, which we were very grateful for. We got here in time to move into our rooms and go to lunch. On the way into town in the van we saw a white couple on the street and we all stared at them because we haven´t seen other white people in so long. Then we realized we are just like the Peruvians. We stared and Jeremy told them ¨Hola!¨ It´s so strange being in a tourist city. There are so many people here who aren´t Peruvian. And it is weird thinking about how everyone here just thinks we are other tourists. We kind of want to tell them, no, we´ve been living here for 2 months and know a lot more about the real Peru than all the random tourists. But it´s nice being in a new place and being able to enjoy nicer things. We had a delicious lunch near our hotel. The best part was the appetizer of avacado filled with essentially a chicken salad. It was really good. Then we walked around the main tourist street. Now I´m back in our wonderful hotel. It was just built in the past year or two. It´s really modern and we got a really good deal on our rooms. Then our room got upgraded to a suite. So, we finally get to have definitely hot showers and there is a jacuzzi tub I know we will all enjoy before going home. It´s so nice to relax after this summer and get to visit cool places here in Puno.
Tomorrow we are going to the floating islands and then Friday we are going to see some ruins. I´ll let you know how it is!
The Last of the Last Week! by Heather
Well, we´ve come to the end of our last week in Conima. Here is all the news you have been waiting to hear, and some you didn´t know to expect.
Friday afternoon we got out all of our leftover coloring sheets, crayons, foam bookmark materials, frisbees and goody-bags and played with the kids in the plaza for 2-3 hours. We had a lot of fun, attracted a lot of kids and even got to talk to a few parents. Also, while we were playing with the kids, Jeremy L. got to story with Sophia and her husband behind their store. This caught them up to the story we were doing with the community that night, so we invited them to come. They indicated that they would probably close their store and come. That was good and it freed up more of our time that night.
At 5pm Jeremy L., Kelsey and I went to story with the police officers. Two of them were there. We sat in front of the police station and Kelsey told them the story of Elijah and Baal. They talked a lot with Jeremy about it. They thought about it and compared it to their culture and how people worship other things. After that Jeremy told them the story of Jesus´ life. They talked some more about this. At this point it was 6pm, time for the English lesson. Jeremy invited the cops to the community storying that night, but they said they couldn´t come. Then we found out there was not another time they could meet before we left. Since Armondo just tolerates the storying and is not interested in it spiritually, I suggested Jeremy stay with the police officers and finish with them. So, Jeremy stayed to story with the police and Kelsey and I went to our last English lesson with Armondo. We taught him some last things he wanted to learn and gave him the gift bag we put together for him. Then we invited him to the community storying, but when we left and asked if he wanted to come with us, he said he needed to sleep. So, that was unfortunate, but hopefully we planted some seeds with him.
After the lesson, Kelsey and I went back to the house to grab a quick dinner before heading over to the government building. John and Pastor Ruben came in since it was a presentation of the gospel. We went over to the government building and met John, Ruben, Pablo and the Jeremys. Pablo had memorized the story of Peter´s sermon and was prepared to tell it. It turns out it was only Pablo and 2 kids, besides us, so Pablo told the story once and we discussed it. Then John used the story to share the gospel and asked Pablo if he had or wanted to repent and be baptized. He said he did and they talked for a while about what that means and what it specifically means in this culture. Pablo agreed with all of it, but when it came to baptism, he said he wanted to become a better Christian first. To address this, John set up for Jeremy L. and Pablo to meet the next day (Saturday) so Jeremy could tell him about the story of Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch and about Cornelius to show the urgency of baptism in the New Testament. John also told Pablo that he and Ruben would be coming through Conima fairly often and would love to meet with him and talk to him more. They also invited him to a training seminar in Huancane in August. It was so good to finally see fruit from our labor and how God has started his church in Conima with one young man. Last night Jeremy L. met with Pablo and told him the stories, but Pablo still wants to learn more before being baptized. So, we will just wait and pray about that. Hopefully John or Ruben will get to come out soon and baptize him.
Yesterday morning Kelsey and I decided to climb the mountain henceforth named ¨mud-butt mountain.¨ We left aroud 11:30am. On the way to really start climbing the mountain there is this area of ground that is really wet because water runs down the mountain along that path, but it is all grass so you can´t tell that it is wet until you step on it. So, before we even got to the real base of the mountain, Kelsey found the wet section. Just as she was telling me to be careful, she slipped and landed square on her behind in the muddy grass. But, being as determined as she is, she said we had to do the hike, mud-butt and all. So, I took a path around the water and we kept hiking. Before long, I heard another yell from behind me and Kelsey had stepped on a rock that rolled and landed on her knee and shin. After come recovery, we continued on. Once we passed the more shallow part, the hiking got intense. It was a really steep slope and it was almost all rocks, of all sizes. So, you had to be careful what rocks you stepped on, because it was obvious they got where they were by falling. The altitude also gets to you and it´s hard to breathe. We had to take lots of breaks. The bottom kept getting further away, but so did the top. As we kept going toward what we thought was the top, we would see a new top, higher up, so we had to keep climbing. We kept picking places to eat lunch, but then felt we had to keep going. Finally, we couldn´t go any further and found some huge rocks we could sit on and eat lunch. We could see all of Conima (which was really small by this time), Suasi Island, lots of Lake Titicaca and mountains all around. We enjoyed our lunch of chicken salad sandwiches, chips, granola bars and peach halves. Then Kelsey read and I journaled. It was so nice and peaceful just sitting there, leaning on a rock, journaling and being warmed by the sun. While we were eating we saw a man in the distance. He was herding sheep and a few llamas. He herded them with a dog and by throwing rocks to head them off. As we were sitting there we could hear him whistling and sometimes singing to the sheep. It was a nice peaceful sound. After a while, we headed back down the mountain. So did the shepherd. It seemed crazy, but he herded the sheep down the steep mountain face we had just climbed up. The climbing down was more scary than climbing up. It was really steep and we had to watch every step so we didn´t go sliding down. We made a video telling our families good-bye in case something happened. Maybe a little melodrmatic, but funny. So, we slowly picked our way down, occasionally yelping as our foot would slip. Finally we reached the trees and were able to walk on more stable rocks and hold onto trees on the way down. Stepping onto level ground never felt so good. We made it back to the house around 3:30pm. Kelsey showered and I collapsed on the couch (after hiking up to the 4th floor).
That night (last night) is when Jeremy L. storied with Pablo. After the storying, we had CHRISTMAS! We´ve been planning our Christmas celebration since one of the first few weeks here and last night it finally arrived. We had chicken and beef fajitas/burritos for dinner (it was a Texas Christmas). We also made apple cider and chocolate oatmeal cookies. Us girls decorated the living room using our missionary ingenuity. We started collecting green 2-liter Sprite bottles a while back. We tied them all along a string and stretched it across the living room. We also used our extra yarn to loop down in front of the windows. Alison was wearing red fuzzy socks so sher took them off and we hung them above the fireplace as our stockings. Once everyone was ready we gathered together with our fire, cider and cookies and played games. We played the game people play at showers where you have clothes pins and if you catch someone saying a certain word you get to take one of their clothes pins. Our words were ¨Christmas¨ and ¨home.¨ Jeremy Stanley won in the end. We also took fun pictures spelling out Merry Christmas and other random words.After that was the white elephant gift exchange. The gifts included a huge yellow flower hair clip and a pack of clothes pins, a water bottle and pack of chocolate wafer cookies, a dvd entitled The Condemned of Lake Titicaca (except in Spanish), and a baby rattle. I´ll leave it up to you to guess who brought and received what. After that we ate our cookies, drank our cider and played telephone pictionary (a group favorite) and charades. Kelsey and I ended up dominating charades, but Jeremy L. took home the ¨most entertaining¨ award. As everything was winding down Jeremy L. played a few Christmas songs on the guitar (all without using the word Christmas, of course). After our fun-filled night we went to bed after agreeing to postpone worship until 9am the next morning.
This morning we had worship at 9am, finishing the last chapter of Romans on our last day here. Then Jeremy L. left for Moho, where all of his things are so he could pack up to head back to Huancane tomorrow. After getting some things packed, Kelsey, Alison, Jeremy S. and I headed out hiking. The three of them had been out to this peninsula on the lake and wanted to visit again and I wanted to go. So, we packed lunch and headed out of Conima. We hiking a good ways along the lake and then stopped on a rock wall that jutted into the water for lunch. Then we kept going out to where a cliff face stuck out into the water. We climbed up the steep rocky slope and sat at the top, looking out over the lake. It was really pretty. We hung out for a while and then came back to clean up the house.
We leave Conima tomorrow morning to go back to Huancane. It´s crazy how long we´ve been here and crazy that it´s finally time to leave. I think we are all ready though. It´s been a good summer, but most of us are ready to see our families and friends and start new parts of life.
Pray for the work we´ve started here - for Pablo and his continued growth. Praise God for his salvation. Pray for safe travel to Huancane tomorrow and that our debriefing and vacation time would be good, restful and helpful times. Thanks for your prayers for our ministry here!
Friday afternoon we got out all of our leftover coloring sheets, crayons, foam bookmark materials, frisbees and goody-bags and played with the kids in the plaza for 2-3 hours. We had a lot of fun, attracted a lot of kids and even got to talk to a few parents. Also, while we were playing with the kids, Jeremy L. got to story with Sophia and her husband behind their store. This caught them up to the story we were doing with the community that night, so we invited them to come. They indicated that they would probably close their store and come. That was good and it freed up more of our time that night.
At 5pm Jeremy L., Kelsey and I went to story with the police officers. Two of them were there. We sat in front of the police station and Kelsey told them the story of Elijah and Baal. They talked a lot with Jeremy about it. They thought about it and compared it to their culture and how people worship other things. After that Jeremy told them the story of Jesus´ life. They talked some more about this. At this point it was 6pm, time for the English lesson. Jeremy invited the cops to the community storying that night, but they said they couldn´t come. Then we found out there was not another time they could meet before we left. Since Armondo just tolerates the storying and is not interested in it spiritually, I suggested Jeremy stay with the police officers and finish with them. So, Jeremy stayed to story with the police and Kelsey and I went to our last English lesson with Armondo. We taught him some last things he wanted to learn and gave him the gift bag we put together for him. Then we invited him to the community storying, but when we left and asked if he wanted to come with us, he said he needed to sleep. So, that was unfortunate, but hopefully we planted some seeds with him.
After the lesson, Kelsey and I went back to the house to grab a quick dinner before heading over to the government building. John and Pastor Ruben came in since it was a presentation of the gospel. We went over to the government building and met John, Ruben, Pablo and the Jeremys. Pablo had memorized the story of Peter´s sermon and was prepared to tell it. It turns out it was only Pablo and 2 kids, besides us, so Pablo told the story once and we discussed it. Then John used the story to share the gospel and asked Pablo if he had or wanted to repent and be baptized. He said he did and they talked for a while about what that means and what it specifically means in this culture. Pablo agreed with all of it, but when it came to baptism, he said he wanted to become a better Christian first. To address this, John set up for Jeremy L. and Pablo to meet the next day (Saturday) so Jeremy could tell him about the story of Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch and about Cornelius to show the urgency of baptism in the New Testament. John also told Pablo that he and Ruben would be coming through Conima fairly often and would love to meet with him and talk to him more. They also invited him to a training seminar in Huancane in August. It was so good to finally see fruit from our labor and how God has started his church in Conima with one young man. Last night Jeremy L. met with Pablo and told him the stories, but Pablo still wants to learn more before being baptized. So, we will just wait and pray about that. Hopefully John or Ruben will get to come out soon and baptize him.
Yesterday morning Kelsey and I decided to climb the mountain henceforth named ¨mud-butt mountain.¨ We left aroud 11:30am. On the way to really start climbing the mountain there is this area of ground that is really wet because water runs down the mountain along that path, but it is all grass so you can´t tell that it is wet until you step on it. So, before we even got to the real base of the mountain, Kelsey found the wet section. Just as she was telling me to be careful, she slipped and landed square on her behind in the muddy grass. But, being as determined as she is, she said we had to do the hike, mud-butt and all. So, I took a path around the water and we kept hiking. Before long, I heard another yell from behind me and Kelsey had stepped on a rock that rolled and landed on her knee and shin. After come recovery, we continued on. Once we passed the more shallow part, the hiking got intense. It was a really steep slope and it was almost all rocks, of all sizes. So, you had to be careful what rocks you stepped on, because it was obvious they got where they were by falling. The altitude also gets to you and it´s hard to breathe. We had to take lots of breaks. The bottom kept getting further away, but so did the top. As we kept going toward what we thought was the top, we would see a new top, higher up, so we had to keep climbing. We kept picking places to eat lunch, but then felt we had to keep going. Finally, we couldn´t go any further and found some huge rocks we could sit on and eat lunch. We could see all of Conima (which was really small by this time), Suasi Island, lots of Lake Titicaca and mountains all around. We enjoyed our lunch of chicken salad sandwiches, chips, granola bars and peach halves. Then Kelsey read and I journaled. It was so nice and peaceful just sitting there, leaning on a rock, journaling and being warmed by the sun. While we were eating we saw a man in the distance. He was herding sheep and a few llamas. He herded them with a dog and by throwing rocks to head them off. As we were sitting there we could hear him whistling and sometimes singing to the sheep. It was a nice peaceful sound. After a while, we headed back down the mountain. So did the shepherd. It seemed crazy, but he herded the sheep down the steep mountain face we had just climbed up. The climbing down was more scary than climbing up. It was really steep and we had to watch every step so we didn´t go sliding down. We made a video telling our families good-bye in case something happened. Maybe a little melodrmatic, but funny. So, we slowly picked our way down, occasionally yelping as our foot would slip. Finally we reached the trees and were able to walk on more stable rocks and hold onto trees on the way down. Stepping onto level ground never felt so good. We made it back to the house around 3:30pm. Kelsey showered and I collapsed on the couch (after hiking up to the 4th floor).
That night (last night) is when Jeremy L. storied with Pablo. After the storying, we had CHRISTMAS! We´ve been planning our Christmas celebration since one of the first few weeks here and last night it finally arrived. We had chicken and beef fajitas/burritos for dinner (it was a Texas Christmas). We also made apple cider and chocolate oatmeal cookies. Us girls decorated the living room using our missionary ingenuity. We started collecting green 2-liter Sprite bottles a while back. We tied them all along a string and stretched it across the living room. We also used our extra yarn to loop down in front of the windows. Alison was wearing red fuzzy socks so sher took them off and we hung them above the fireplace as our stockings. Once everyone was ready we gathered together with our fire, cider and cookies and played games. We played the game people play at showers where you have clothes pins and if you catch someone saying a certain word you get to take one of their clothes pins. Our words were ¨Christmas¨ and ¨home.¨ Jeremy Stanley won in the end. We also took fun pictures spelling out Merry Christmas and other random words.After that was the white elephant gift exchange. The gifts included a huge yellow flower hair clip and a pack of clothes pins, a water bottle and pack of chocolate wafer cookies, a dvd entitled The Condemned of Lake Titicaca (except in Spanish), and a baby rattle. I´ll leave it up to you to guess who brought and received what. After that we ate our cookies, drank our cider and played telephone pictionary (a group favorite) and charades. Kelsey and I ended up dominating charades, but Jeremy L. took home the ¨most entertaining¨ award. As everything was winding down Jeremy L. played a few Christmas songs on the guitar (all without using the word Christmas, of course). After our fun-filled night we went to bed after agreeing to postpone worship until 9am the next morning.
This morning we had worship at 9am, finishing the last chapter of Romans on our last day here. Then Jeremy L. left for Moho, where all of his things are so he could pack up to head back to Huancane tomorrow. After getting some things packed, Kelsey, Alison, Jeremy S. and I headed out hiking. The three of them had been out to this peninsula on the lake and wanted to visit again and I wanted to go. So, we packed lunch and headed out of Conima. We hiking a good ways along the lake and then stopped on a rock wall that jutted into the water for lunch. Then we kept going out to where a cliff face stuck out into the water. We climbed up the steep rocky slope and sat at the top, looking out over the lake. It was really pretty. We hung out for a while and then came back to clean up the house.
We leave Conima tomorrow morning to go back to Huancane. It´s crazy how long we´ve been here and crazy that it´s finally time to leave. I think we are all ready though. It´s been a good summer, but most of us are ready to see our families and friends and start new parts of life.
Pray for the work we´ve started here - for Pablo and his continued growth. Praise God for his salvation. Pray for safe travel to Huancane tomorrow and that our debriefing and vacation time would be good, restful and helpful times. Thanks for your prayers for our ministry here!
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