RECAP: June 22-24 (Miles)

June 22 (Friday) -

Carey was sick most of the day with a stomach virus and stayed in bed. Kristi stayed with him while he rested. The rest of us went down to the high school for the dance festival. All the schools within the 30 minute walk radius participated (about 25 schools). Very interesting. We watched about 15 schools. The preschools went first (about 12 of them). Very beautiful costumes and very sweet children. When we arrived, the director of the elementary school on the plaza where the 2010 and 2011 BST teams have done their Bible schools asked us to sponsor their school like the SMs did last year, making Miles the "Good Papa". We purchased sodas for each of the 33 children in the school and gave to them after their dance. They were very excited and appreciative and we felt this was making a connection for our Monday Bible school time. We watched for about 3 hours (15 schools) until our sponsored school danced. Carey felt some better by the afternoon. The youth played with the kids in the plaza. In the evening we ate at Marita's restaurant and had devotion time.

June 23 (Saturday) -

As we were packing for our overnight stay in Huancane, we got news that the miners were striking and closing the roads in the Juliaca area and Puno area next week. So we decided that it would be best to get out of Juliaca on Sunday so we settled up with Sofia and packed everything up and went to Huancane. We met Martin and Ruben in Huancane and settled in the new hostel on the plaza. We had a great time with Ruben, his family and church. We hiked and visited with Ruben's family, ate some great food in Huancane. Miles preached a message from Jesus' parable of the sower and we enjoyed the worship music.

June 24 (Sunday) -

Traveled to Juliaca, tried again to get a flight from there to Lima but the only available flight was too expensive, so we took the bus to Arequipa. Jennifer (our translator) is from there and made arrangements for us to stay in a very nice hotel at a great rate. We were able to get flights out of Arequippa to Lima for Monday at a good rate.