So much to say...and so little time to say it!

I can´t believe it has been two weeks since I´ve gotten the chance to use the internet here! Chupa has no Internet, and two phones (which cost an absolute fortune to use for an international call). So here I am. Where do I begin? I´m sitting in a little cubicle thing in an Internet café in Juliaca, Peru, my brain getting rather blasted by someone playing very loud music in the next cubicle.

The church that adopted the village of Chupa left myself, Karen and Lidman to ourselves as of two weeks ago. Since then, we´ve visited many of the village churches, and have tried to bring the Gospel into a couple few new villages. Unfortunately, we have had to shake the dust off our feet regarding two of them, called Chiña Chiña and Alto-Schandopi, as they refused to talk to us. Please pray for these two villages, that a door would be open for future missionaries there. In one of them, Alto-Schandopi, we did manage to speak to some people once, and the second boss agreed to tell the people of a meeting with us, but when we came the other day, we found that some of the villagers and the first boss had become angry with him because of this. He is still interested in listening to us though, so pray for his heart to be open to the message of the Gospel.

It´s been a very interesting week I must say. Unfortunately, something I ate on Monday very much didn´t agree with me, and I got sick. I was much better by the next morning. Please continue to pray for my health! Even without eating things that don´t agree with me, we still have to walk a lot and we´re at a very high elevation, so it´s very hard on our bodies here.

Last Friday, the Barnabus Team arrived in Chupa to visit us. There are two of these teams, and they go to visit each of the teams working in the villages to encourage and to help resolve any conflicts that have come about in a team. They leave to go visit the Lampa team tomorrow, and we´re going to miss them so much, as we´ve all become great friends. There is so much I could say about Allison, Justin and Amy that I could fill a novel with it! I know I can speak for Karen and Lidman both when I say we´ve all had a great time having them around. Pray for their safety and their health as they continue to travel around Peru.