Dave and Cam's Peru Adventure

Whew! Its been a whirwind that's for sure. You won't believe some of the things I've done this week! But more on that later. We left Huanuco and researched our way to Cerro de Pasco and from there we drove to Huancayo and parked our truck at the church-bought our bus tickets for the overnight bus to Lima, saw a movie and took the bus all night. That was day 1. We arrived in Lima early morning saturday. David took care of 1 team's needs and in the afternoon we received the van for the New River team. The team arrived that night and the next morning we set out for Jauja. David did a great job driving the bus and we made good time. The hostel we stayed at was a treat! Very cool Colonial style with really hot water. We attended the church service that night. The next morning we started ministering in Molinos. We set up the medical clinic but the crowd wasn't coming. So we did a house calland the rest of the team went out tell people to come. By the time we got back from the house call they were lined up outside the clinic. Its difficult to share what all David and I did during the clinic. Generally we helped keep order, translated, brought lunch, coordinated the upcoming day, etc. I even translated a little in the doctors office and I can now say "do you have blood in your stools" in spanish. Of course I couldn't at the time, so you should have heard me try to "talk around" that one! We left this team early Wed morning and did some coordination for the upcoming medical trip this next week. From there we went to Huancayo and picked up a few things for the students in Quero. We made it up there and brought tears to their eyes when I told them that I'd brought stiff to make hamburgers for supper. Larry arrived that evening and we spent the next day visiting around Quero with them. Friday morning we drove early in the morning to the Jauja team, picked them up- left our truck there- and drove them to Lima. We spent the night and following day there in Lima, and that night we took another overnight bus to Jauja, picked up our truck, drove to Huancayo and then crashed for a few hours before church. We met the group from New Orleans at church and spent the day preparing for the week's upcoming pastors conference. I'd like to say the conference went well... but I don't know. I spent 15 hours a day either in the market or kitchen, helping ladies from the church prepare meals for 200 people. What an experience. I got lessons in my different types of ajis (pepper sauces), an even faster way to cut up a chicken (or 25 chickens to be exact) and the proper technique for cleaning chicken feet. Quite an adventure. I also had a major breakthrough that week. I had my first real dream in spanish- speaking and hearing in spanish. Of course it was about chicken... so I'm not sure if that was a breakthrough or just insanity... time will tell I suppose. The conference overlapped with the International World Changer's project in Huancayo- so we ended at 11 pm one night and started again the next morning at 7. Whew. We had a day of training and then we spent the rest of the week doing door to door medical visits. After this team, we headed into Lima to prep for our move there in September. We had a surprise awaiting us- some generous soul gave us a night at the Marriot- a cream of the crop hotel establishment located in the swanky part of Lima- every room with an ocean view. Very very swanky:) Of course we felt like the Beverly Hillbillies coming in with a very dirty truck and no clean clothes for ourselves. A little intimidating but a great time none the less. We got our errands done in Lima and then finally headed home to Huanuco, where we rested for a day. To celebrate this rest, the next day we took a 12.5 hour road trip to do some scouting for this upcoming week's vet clinic. So the past two days have been rest for the weary and now we have our vet clinic team in town and head out tomorrow. Please forgive the punchy note to this blog- but I think I just might BE punchy soo.... go figure ! Pray for us, our sanity and that the Lord will do great and mighty things here in Peru!