No matter where you go, you’ll find it. In whichever restaurant you dine, it will be there too, perched atop every table. You see, here in Peru every table not only has the standard red, white and yellow bottles half filled with ketchup, mustard or mayonnaise, but accompanying this triplet is the glorious green bottle. This magical green bottle is filled with an uber tasty aji sauce (a slightly spicy sauce usually made from yellow peppers). Any meal can always be dressed up with aji sauce. Sure the food is good without it, but drizzle a little aji on your food and the world is a better place.
Just the other day while happily chewing on the standard white rice, converted to the tasty side by aji, I was struck with an epiphany. Life can be a lot like food and God like the aji. We can live our life day to day and do alright. Our lives have a little bit of flavor, but then one day God comes along. All of the sudden our lives are bursting with flavor and spice. Looking back we can see that we were just living, but now, with aji, we are alive. Never again will we want to go back to plain old rice, we will be continuously seeking the aji. Once you’ve tasted life with God, you’ll be seeking him for the rest of your life. So drizzle on the aji and let your life come alive.

Lauren, Josh and I chillin on a Pekipeki...cruzing around on the mighty Ucayali river.
We spent a month in Inahuaya, a little village on the Ucayali river, doing some clinics, health lessons, rebuilding a collapsing church, evagelistic meetings and socializing with the local villagers. It was a great month and a cool new eye opener to more of the peruvian culture of the jungle.

We just may have gotten rained on during our travels in the Pekipekis...you are looking at the calm before the storm...

Thisis how we travel from village to village...in Pekipeki boats!!!
Standing beside the boat is Enya, our boat driver, and inside the boat is our mobile dental-medical team. (I´m on the back left)

More triage in Santa Rosa... the lady in the yellow shirt leaning against the wall is sporting the typical Shipebo attire. Their clothes are always super bright and colorful.

Another clinic inside a school at Santa Rosa...me in Triage again...This was a really cool village, it was a Shipebo village, the local tribes of the area. I got very confused many times, becase they kept talking to me in Shipebo.

Mobile Clinic in Barrasgueras...under the mango trees.

This was the nurse squad plus our a local Peruvian doctor for our moblie clinics near Inahuaya. Each day we would split from the big boat and travel to a remote village and do a clinic. All of our supplies are strapped to Lauren and I´s backs. A clinic in two back packs...how exciting is that!

These are the newly baptized members of the 17th of September Church.

Helping decipher doctor´s handwriting on a precription......my career as a nurse has begun

Calling out people for traige...my chance to slaughter some names (especally since everyone here has two last names...as if one isn´t bad enough)