A lot has happened here the last few days. Friday night, one of the sisters living in the house here received an email that her grandfather had been taken to the hospital after suffering a major heart attack. She went to the phone company and called back to the states, only to learn that her grandfather had died. She flew out Saturday morning to return to the states. Then two days later, Joe and Christina left to return to the states. So right now, there are only three of us living in the house. That’s a good thing in a way, since we are very low on water here, so the less people using it the better. We had been hoping that we would get a heavy rain the last few days, since rain usually falls around either the full moon or the new moon. We didn’t get much from the full moon, and it will be a couple of weeks now to the new moon. When it does rain we try to collect every drop we can by putting out buckets underneath dripping water. We save all our dish washing water for flushing the toilet, and we recycle our rinse water when doing our laundry. The next person uses it when they do there laundry. It is also amazing on how much water you don’t need to shower!
Compton had a nice party at his house Sunday night. It was a combination, going away for Joe & Christina, welcome back for Will & Jen, and Super Bowl, party. The whole congregation was invited, and there were over fifty people there. Several of the families brought food dishes, and Compton also provided some local cuisine. He had their cook make curried laba which is a large wild rodent, as well a dish with iguana and iguana eggs. I couldn’t bring myself to try the iguana, but the laba was excellent. Terri said the iguana was good, and the eggs were excellent. The shells are leathery, so you bite a hole in them and then squeeze the insides out. She said it was very creamy.
Monday many went up to the airstrip to see Joe & Christina off. It was kind of interesting because there were white missionaries from two different local churches that were also leaving on the same flight. It was nice to see about twenty from the hall to see them off as opposed to just a few for the others. It was sad to see them leave. I don’t think there was a dry eye there.
We ended up not going to try our hand at paddling today, so I can’t report in that, maybe Thursday. I am looking forward to it, because it will expand our ministry some. (Terri speaking) We work our local territory at least once a month not that that is a bad thing. It is amazing how often it is worked yet you still have so many conversations with people and still start bible studies. People come and go here. We are trying to teach them something different each time we go, actually you could probably count them as bible studies. We also do street work we just walk and talk to so many people, and you don’t even feel nervous. People just know us and who we are. You will meet your RV on the street, and talk. People sometimes just ask you for a magazine to read. The security guards usually really enjoy them because they just sit for hours.
