My Hut...and a Few Additions

Wow, back in town for my day off! It was nice sleeping in till 6:30 this morning! In the past week a wonderful thing happened - Ruan got the diesel generator (30KW) and a new set up batteries (very beefy ones) up and running (I'll put some pics up next week). The generator story is rather something I think but I'll save that for next time. It is nice to have consistent electricity (not to mention actually being able to plug in laptop computers at night without them draining the old batteries).

So until next time:

A picture from church with Ruan preaching last Sabbath. I’m in the cheap seats in the back – full sun. The school trucks in some villagers from Yata for church. There is one lady in the village who is an Adventist...she was recently baptized.

My hut from my seat in the ‘back row’ of the chapel. You might look at the siding and think something is growing up the wall...that is true, termite tunnels.

The view upon first entering my hut. We need to hook up the water and put in a drain (a pipe out the wall) and find the gas canister for the stove that hopefully is somewhere on campus. This is not to mention that the thatched roof is about a year old and I think we are going to have some leaks come rainy season...

Kody’s ‘office’ area (he teaches) and the bedroom area in the back. This was just after church hence the clothes hanging off the bed. :)

View from the bedroom. The tub on the right is my wash bin (we wash in the stream). Thankfully one of the students washes my clothes (except the undies).

View out the front window of our bedroom. It is very dry right now, I guess this is the driest dry season that many at the school have seen in the past four or so years.

View out the back window of our bedroom.

Hard at work! There are moments that I wish this is all I did, but alas that is not the case. This is Sabbath afternoon and I am fighting the urge to take a nap. I forgot to shave Friday night but thankfully I did that evening. For various reasons shaving has been reduced to once per week. Now that we have more reliable electricity the frequency should increase a little.

…well…uh…I am supposed to be working on my sermon for this Sabbath.

Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!

Well at the end of the day…there was nothing to plug my headset into and I couldn’t decide between the two pictures. I brought my aviation headset down here hoping to get a ride or two on a mission plane. Hopefully I will be able to before I return. There is a Cessna 182 sitting at the hangar in Guayara because it isn’t being flown right now. They really could use more pilots down here. The 182 was used for flying into remote villages for medical evacuation flights and other purposes. A couple weeks ago the father of one of the students showed up at the school – he is the chief of his village - and asked for medical care for his village (his brother-in-law had died not too long ago from an infection). Unfortunately right now there is nothing we can offer since the plane needs a pilot. The need is great.