Our First Clinic in a Blink

For 2 days we had been doing inventory on all of our medications to bring to our first clinic site. We were finally ready to go and got the truck packed up. We headed out around six in the morning to a town on the out skirts of Pucuallpa. We drove on dirt roads for about 15 minutes to get to our final destination. The team got everything unloaded and we were ready to start. All of us newb's had no idea what was really coming our way. The first clinic day turned into only a half day because we needed to get more organized with our medications. It was nice to cut the day short. The medical team was supposed to get the patience meds that were prescribed and either give the shot or had them the medicine and explain to them what was supposed to be done with the medication. Knowing very little spanish that task was a bit hard. Words like grasoso:with grease, or cc: like a cc on a syringe, were confused with grasioso meaning funny and some other word that sounded like cc that meant poop. Some of us were telling patience that they needed to eat funny food with their medication and withdraw 2 poops of fluid from the bottle. Not words that you really want to mix up. They would laugh at us and appreciate our persistency that they needed to with draw a poop of fluid and eat funny food. Learning the lingo has been a fun task and we have learned enough to get by but there is still more work to be done.
The second day of clinic people started lining up outside of the clinic, which was also our sleeping quarters at around 5 in the morning to get tickets. We only pass out 70 tickets in the morning around 6 and 70 tickets in the afternoon around 1. That line ended up starting earlier and earlier. By the end of the week people ended up starting the line around 1 in the morning which made it a very loud night for us to try to sleep through along with the cock-a-doo-dal-dooing roosters and the rabid dogs barking outside our house. With very little sleep we managed to get through the week. God played a huge role in helping us through the long hours, the needy sometimes very frustrating people, and the new b challenges of our first clinic.
Some of the most remember able people that really stuck out in my mind were the people that needed just a few hundred dollars to have a surgery that would normally cost a few thousand dollars in the states. It was so frustrating to see how much could be done with just a little more money but they don’t have a little more money if any at all. All the children with worms, and the adorable little faces of the child that are dying for a little attention are so precious. We have all learned so much from the amazing dental team pulling the first tooth to their fiftieth tooth, our medical team that have learned the medications and the technique of butt shots, and our amazing doctor and nurse that run the whole thing that keep everything in line. All together we make an amazing team and have hopefully made a different in many peoples lives.
I would say that our first week was a big success.

We are headed on Tuesday night on a sixteen-hour boat trip to a riverboat city for our next campaign. We will be back on September 4 so until then good luck to all of you who are starting school:) Moni and jonny drive safe back to southern. Congrats to missy who passed her Teaching test woot woot, and hugs to grandma who is still recouping from a femur break. Dad keep capturing those amazing shot. I love you james and i love you mom. Mom give grandma a big hug from me:)

Crazy Trip To Masisea

So Jenni came home Thursday night and asked us if we wanted to go to the masisea village for the weekend to check up on them. It a village that past workers have been. Its a six hour boat ride there and a four hour boat ride back. We were planning to leave friday morning and leave saturday after church to head home. Long trip. We all agreed not knowing that our trip would end up a day longer and a bit crazier. We got on the boat and people just kept getting on and kept loading all their stuff. It was just a Peke Peke and shouldn´t fit as many people and stuff as it did. In the middle there was stuff packed all the way through the boat and then there was two benches on the sides where people were sitting shoulder to shoulder. We made stops along the way and were dropping peopl and stuff off as we went to the masisea village. We finally arrive. Played some soccer with the kids and headed to vespers. Then headed back to our hostil for bed. The hostil was crazy. There was a club bumpin til 3ish and roosters cock a doo dal dooing all night. ha. crazy crazy crazy. Funny stuff though. We got up the next morning and headed for church. Church is still tough for me because i still cant understand all the spanish and so i end up reading my bible after my brain dies from trying to comprehend all the crazy spanish words. Church was done and we were going to head back to the hostil to change then to get some food. It started raining and we were supposed to be heading home in about 2 hours. Well we waited and waited at the hostil and we finally accepted that we wouldn´t be catching our boat ride home and that we would stay there til sunday. We finally got some food after walking there in the rain, our 3rd rice and beans meal of the trip, but still just as good as the first. Its amazing how it grows on you. We headed back and slept for a while because it was raining still... I woke up and everyone was still kinda sleeping but i saw some kids playing football in the muddy soccer field. I went over and spanglished my way into asking them if i could play with them. They are so cute and so amazingly good at soccer. They were aged 6 to 10 but played like they were pros. Brent and Emily showed up and joined in. We had a good 2 games. Mos of which i lost. It was really muddy and the kids loved it when i fell and rolled and triped and slid in the mud. Which was very often. I looked like i hadn´t showered in days and days. My clothes were covered in mud. The pastor showed up and said we had about 10 min before closing of the sabbath. Well i hurried and ran back to shower and change. later i found out we weren´t supposed to be playing soccer oops. oh well. next time i wont. it was fun though and the kids enjoyed it. After vespers we did a kids song service and games in the towns court yard. The kids are so so cute. We ate then found some junk food like chocolate and cookies that we have been craving since we got to peru. We headed to bed because we were getting up at 3 to head to the docks to catch the Peke Peke back home. We got up and headed to the docks. 4 of us went in one moto and the pastor and brent wen on his bike and the others were going to catch a moto and meet us there. Well the roads were teriable from the rain. There was so much mud and the dirt roads. I was shocked when i got there because the roads were so bad but i now know that things can always get worse. A half hour ride took us an hour. the Motor cycle got stuck and the moto droped us off about a mile before the docks because the mud was so bad. It was just the 4 of us in the dark having no idea what happened to the others. We waited for about 20 min doing flashlight circles checking out all the funny noises that were destined to get us from the jungle that surrounded us. ha. funny times. Jenni and the others finally showed up but no motorcycle. The motor cycle was stuck. We walked to the docks and waited about another hour in a half when the motorcycle showed up after being towed by a moto. ha. Our boat was about half the size of our boat we came on. I didn´t know they could be smaller. Again, i now know things can get much worse. ha. It was a shorter ride back and everyone was thrilled to be back on land. The trip was fun, we survived and have many memories and stories. Very exciting.

This week we are going over nursing and dental stuff for our clinic the 19th. Shots and pulled teeth are in the future. ha. Il keep you posted on how that goes. I also have to explain to the people how to take medicins, where they go, and how often to take them. Sound like fun especially since i know oh so much spanish. ha. Oh well. i guess i will be learning it quickly.

There might be another strike so if you dont hear from me for a month, i will be stuck at km. 38 eating rice and beans and sheep if needed. We will see and pray and hope that the strike wont happen. Keep peru in your prayers.

I love pictures...

Sweet sweet baby... Baby Ansley or Annie.

The guys were trying to get the bike off the boat and up the hill. It was insane but they made it... Who brings a bike on a boat. ha. only in peru. look at the size of the boat.
Shipibo kids pushing us off to head home to km38.
They were happy to get in the cool water.
An amazing sunset coming back fron the shipibo village.
Brent sitting on top of the Peke Peke on the way back from the village.
We have a new addition to our sheep family. Now a sheep family of 12.

Just laughing and taking pictures coming back from the village.

The gang minus jenni and brent who was taking the picture.
Thats a small Peke Peke!!!

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Sorry i forgot to rotate the pictures again... oh well. hope you enjoy anyways.

The boys working hard making a place for our waste water.

All of our laundry... took forever!!!
Cheva our dog playing soccer with the boys.
Beautiful fruit stands everywhere!!!
Driving into Pucallpa

Right before Ansley and Carly left we all took a picture infron of the house with the sign that they made us. It is still up. yay.

A yummy SDA Vegi place
Riding in the moto. yes... there are 4 people.
We were the attraction at the zoo.
Jumping in the lake. Trying to do what they do in the olympics. ha.

We Are A Peruvian Attraction

So we went to the Peruvian animal zoo. It was a very eventful outing. There were many animals there like giant boas, black panther, and tons of monkeys. Not only did people take pictures with the animals while they were at the zoo but they wanted to take pictures with us. Yes… With us. It was really funny to be a main attraction at a zoo. People come face to face with a black panther about as often as they come face to face with a gringo. Now I know how the animals feel. As we were walking out of the zoo a man came to us and wanted us to do an interview about our thoughts of the park and it would play on the pucallpa tv station that night. We should be getting a disk in a few days of the interview. Us gringos are now famous. Very eventful. The next day we went swimming in a lake. Usually, lakes in the U.S. you can take your baths and showers in the lakes, but not here! The water was brownish and smelled kinda funny but we were very delighted to jump in to the sandy shored brownish lake. Very refreshing when it is 98 degrees outside with about 85 percent humidity. We start up with our classes and clinics the 19th but until then we will be studying hard an preparing all of our lessons.

Send Me A Washing Machine

Laundry sucks. Hand washing clothes is the hardest thing ever. Pretty sure i will be wearing dirty clothes for 10 months. First you have to scrub them. Then you have to rince them. Then you have to ring them out. Then hang them up on the line. This four step process is the hardest thing ever. Dont let the fewness of steps fool you. Laundry out here takes about 30 min to 2 hours depending on how clean you really want your clothes. Theres also the soap factor. Do you really mind walking around with starchy feeling clothes because there was to much soap left in them. I have decided that dirt adds to the missionary way and look, soap masks the dirt smell, and soap creates a nice starch feel without having to iron your clothes. I now am very careful of what i wear because i now know the process of how i have to clean what i wear. Soap never comes out of your clothes and water likes to stay there too. I ring ring ring and rinse rinse, but hmmm water and soap still remain. ha. Laundry sucks, mom send me a washing machine. he he.

Out and About

These lemons are huge!!!

Beautiful sunset. this is where we live. kinda dark
very nice.... The grass is really long. this is where they didn´t burn it. ha

Going into the plane. ha its sideways oh well...

Our group of girls with an over stuffed truck!!!
The airport.

This was our first meal. Plantinos beans and rice.

This is the governers palace in Lima.
Many many policia guarding the palace

These are some pictures of Peru.... I hope you enjoy. some of them are not very good but oh well. I miss you all. Peru is wonderful. My flight was good and Pucallpa is the cutest little place in peru. I live about 12 miles from pucallpa called km38 near campo verde. It is sucha cute little place. we are secluded from everything unless we drive 30 min. Its kinda like living on a farm. We have goats and sheep and two dogs cheva and lola. Cheva is dumb and big and scary but really shes just a dumb sweetheart. Lola is the smart one. Anyways. We live in a little cute house. Theres emily, kristen, laura, tara, and me. Brent just arrived we saw them driving back to the land while we were in town. We stoped and said hi but didn´t really get to chat. Well hope you enjoy the pictures.





Some funny things in peru.

They use these funny little buggy things for transportation.

They have indian people the natives of the land that look like pigme people walking around selling things and they have the really neat outfits.

There are holes that you may fall into when you walk on the sidewalk so you allways have to look where you are steping. they are really deep too.

They burn their grass to keep it down for longer period of time. there will be fields lit up and the people in the house not paying any attention and then they go running out saying that theyare burning more then they wanted to and it is going to far. ha ha. Crazy

They have rice and beans or rice and vegies every day.

They use a drink called ECCO which is like american Roma. but better.

The men and boys and policia all make cat calls by whisteling, hooting, honking or saying hello in american where ever we walk when we are in town. Not fun.

The market is full of many many many things. No where to move.

The cars and carts will run you over if you are in your way. you watch out for yourself they do not watch out for you.



i know there is more but i will have to think of them later.