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This guy should be drug tested on a weekly basis to prove he’s as moronic as he sounds…

We landed in Houston around 6am yesterday, and drove into Winnie around 8:30.  It was a fantastic father’s day.  Not looking forward to a return to the standard routine.  I’ve got to work hard to make sure I can go again.

I can honestly say that I’ve never been so happy to see Christle and the girls as I was yesterday morning.

We arrived in Huanuco around 5pm today. No one in our party has spent the night here. Our drive from Tingo Maria went well, except for the one person who got motion sickness, and the taxi that Pastor Kevin was in broke down 15 minutes outside of Tingo Maria… He caught another one quite quickly.

We ate at a restaurant one block from our hotel, and then had a reflective conversation for a few hours. It was really good.

I just got off of Skype with Christle and am headed to bed… Goodnight!

We´ve been making progress over the past few days.  Monday, all we did was put 100 corner posts together for 25 bunk beds.  It is a lot harder than I thought it would be.  I´ll post a picture of what they look like if I can remember.

Monday night we went to minister on the street.  Apparently, the pastor of the church we are visiting got a permit to do a service on the street.  We brought sound equipment with us and within a few minutes of setting up,there were nearly 200 people surrounding us around 9:45pm.  At the end of the service, around 30 people came to the altar call, and we know that 6 gave their lives to Christ for the first time!

Yesterday, we worked hard at the orphanage until around 2:45, and we went to a village just outside of town known as Shipibo.  They live on the river, a 5 minute walk from outsiders, and speak a completely different dialect from the rest of the Peruvians.  It looked like the village had about 40 people living there.  We returned to the orphanage last night and worked until we finished building the beds somewhere around 9:45.

Today our goal is to finish grinding off exposed screw tips, sanding where we need to sand, and stain the beds.

We are returning to Huanaco one day early because the forcast right now includes rain every day, and that rain could delay us if we try to make it last minute.  If we waited until then, we could miss our flight out of Huanaco if there were any complications.  We will still be leaving Huanaco on Friday and leaving Lima late Saturday night.

Today we begin working on the beds at the orphanage. We want to increase the number of children they can take in so that there’s less children sleeping on the street at night. They are very poor here.

17 of us came to Peru from Winnie. So far, no one has gotten sick and everyone is staying safe. We start our journey home on Friday and actually land in Houston on Sunday, June 20th around 6:30am… At least, that’s the plan.

The night we stayed in Lima was very short, but I did not sleep very well at all.  We arrived in Tingo Maria yesterday around 4:15pm, ate dinner around 7:30pm, and just enjoyed not being in a vehicle.

I slept great last night, as did everyone else that I know of.  They were raving about the coffee last night and this morning at breakfast, so I decided to have a cup… and then I had a second cup.  Cane sugar is so much better than the stuff we´re used to.

We´re attending a church service in about a quarter of an hour and then we´re doing two services with a translator this evening.  I´m really looking forward to it.

Keep us in your prayers, and ask God to lead us in every step we take.

I’ve got most of my packing done and I’ve made most of the preparations.  I’ve got my passport ready and bought travel insurance.  I’ll do my best to keep you updated of the progress.

Thank you for all the support, financial and spiritual.  Please continue to pray for our team and that we allow God to lead and work through us.

We’re leaving Winnie on Friday at noon, and plan to arrive in Lima, Peru around 11:30PM.  As far away as we’re going, we’re going to be in the same time zone!