It has been many a day since I have been in town, my deepest apologies to all of my devote blog followers. I have miserably failed you all in consistently updating my blog. But get used to it, because we have now practically finished our campaign at Km 8 and in about a week will be moving out into the jungle to start our next campaign. But anyways enough of these announcements and now for a recap of my life… or as it is said – and now for the rest of the story…
My team has helped build up quite the church group at Km 8. We baptized close to 40 people over the past two Sabbaths in a little dolphin swimming pool and will be baptizing many more after a mass wedding on the 22 of October. Last Saturday night, the nurse squad moved back to Km 38 for a week. Thus began our crazy quest of organization. We worked like mad to turn a messy room that liked to think of as the medical abyss, into a neatly organized pharmacy. We spent many an hour in our little medical cubby hole, but after sweating enough to mop the floor, we finally are about done and now I feel comfortable calling our abyss a pharmacy. (We are doing all this prep because soon we will be starting our next campaign which will begin with a weeklong medical clinic.) I have also spent lots of time translating Bible stories into Castellano for our kids meetings during the next campaign. It has also been a blast to be back at Km 38 because we have an oven here…which means that I can bake cookies and other delicious munchies each and every day. Another great thing about baking goodies is that they have to be eaten quickly or else they will be devoured by ants. What a crisis.
Actually the ants have now moved up several inches on my hate list. I have been rationing out my beloved ABC almonds lovingly sent to me by my father (Almonds cannot be found down here…sad thing it is) Bad news is that the ants chewed their way into all of my almonds - the nasty little critters. Not too big of a deal though, I simply roasted my almonds in the oven to kill all the little buggers. Then I carefully hung them up in a safe place and sprayed the surrounding area with bug spray (which kills the ants instantly and prevents them from returning), but then to my horrible discovery this afternoon, the ants had braved all odds and had fought their way through the clouds of bug spray (with 49% deet) and were again munching happily on my almonds. Thus war began and I roasted them once more. Now I get to enjoy my twice baked ants and almonds in one big smorgasbord.