Day 2, September 5, 2014
<Journal Excerpt>
9:01 AM - As I write
this, we are slowly drifting down the
river in a dugout canoe. We left 10
minutes ago but only got 5 minutes down river and the motor quit. Tito is draining the oil into one of my
cooking pots to see if that is the problem.
I won’t be asking for the pot back. . .
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| Drifting |
This morning in Ushbe, about 15 women and children showed up
outside the school house at 6:45 for medical care! I cooked breakfast over the borrowed fire
while Brenda attended to them.
9:12 AM – The motor has started again and we are moving
faster. We prayed that God would fix the
motor. One think I try to remind myself
is that we can do all humanly possible, but if it doesn’t work, it is ok because
God is in control. He controls the
motor, the weather, the river. We MUST
trust in Him.
9:32 AM – We are stopped again.
A pair of blue and yellow macaws
are flying around in the treetops, squawking
and playing – so beautiful as we drift down the river.
<End Journal Entry>
We eventually made it to Agua Negra after about 3 hours in
the canoe. We were able to attend to
about 40 people and share the Gospel with them.
We held clinic in the one room school house. The entire school was smaller than most
people’s kitchens! We had lunch in the
school teacher’s house, boiled rice and fish.
Then, back on the river to travel down to Oromomo where we will pitch
our tents for the remainder of the trip.
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| Agua Negra |
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| We had to haul all our medicines up a 30 foot bank - I dirty, sweaty and out of breath when I made it to the top. You can see our canoe way down in the river. |
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| Brenda and Tito are sharing the Gospel and giving some health classes |
We arrived at Oromomo just before dark, which was an answer
to prayer. We REALLY didn’t want to be
on the river after dark. It took us
another 3 hours to get down the river. We were very tired after riding in the
canoe all day in the hot sun without any shade.
Our relief would come when we would get out and push the boat. We had to get out and push several times because
the river was so low. We would be going
along at a good clip and all of the sudden come to a sluggish halt – our boat
would be stuck on a sand bar in the middle of the river.
It was great to see Dilma, Lizbeth, Marianna and Jabez. The girls have grown up so much! They just laughed, giggled and hid behind
their mother until I snatched both of them up and gave them big hugs, then they
decided to be my shadows.
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| Mariana and Lizbeth |
Judith Mendez and her mother Nasmine are here. Judith is a missionary with International
Tribal Missions, Tony Murrin’s mission organization that HHFM is partnering
with. Nasmine is 75 years old! She moved her to live with her daughter and
help her. She has taken to it like a
duck in water! She is helping to tutor
the children, doing Bible studies, etc.
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| Judith and Nasmine |
We had a few luxuries in Oromomo I was not expecting. The first was that Judith let us use her gas stove! A real gas stove out here! I was very excited! We set up camp in the house that HHFM had
built here. It has two rooms. The front room is used for Sunday School and
the back room is where we set up our tents. The second luxury was that in the back, I hung a shower curtain so we could bathe with a
bucket. I must say that I was very, very excited about having a “shower” of
sorts. It is wonderful when you can
bathe and then just go around the corner and get in your tent. (I know, seems like something trivial, but it
is HUGE)
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| Our house! It still needs a door, some windows screened in, etc. But it is so nice! |
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| Our tents. The shower curtain is hanging behind the back wall. That area is going to be a storage/bathroom area eventually. |
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