I´m Back!

So, I got back from traveling around a week ago now. Had an absolutely amazing time hitting up Lima, Arequipa, Puno, Copacabana (Bolivia), Cuzco, and Aguas Calientes, but am kind of glad to be back in good old Pucallpa (minus the heat). Got to do everything from spending endless hours on buses, staying at hostels with part of the Italian mafia, hiking around the Incan jungle, viewing the amazing Machu Picchu in the freezing rain, eating alpaca, touring Lake Titicaca islands made completely out of reeds, setting fireworks off of a roof for New Years, to being offered to be stowed under a bus to get over the Bolivian border. Our group of seven guys from the project and myself did have to deal with getting sick, having things stolen, and grating on each others nerves at times, but in general bonded and loved getting to be tourists for a while.

After getting back this last Sunday we started another clinic and was honestly a little hard going back to missionary mode. Have once again adjusted though, and I am ready to start up another campaign in our new location, the 17 of September. Yep, that is the name of the place, it is a squatter’s town and that is the day that it was established, there are so many little towns around that area that kept springing up that the just started naming them the dates they appeared. Anyways, this past week saw over 160 patients every day and then this week start visiting the families. Have added a few new members to our team (two more SMs just arrived from SAU) and now our traveling includes a group of 12. As always, appreciate all of your prayers as we start reaching out to this new community.
















(The pictures above are all from my trip. They are all mixed up but there are pictures of our group freezing at Machu Picchu, our hiking group, us after biking in the mountains, a parrot at one of our hostals, Lake Titicaca, us dressed up on the floating islands, a rainbow in the Incan jungle, Josh and I at the hot springs, us eating out New Year´s eve, street dancers, a weird animal drinking out of a bottle (seriously dont know what kind it is!), etc.)