"I´ve never had breakfast with a man in his underwear, but now I have"

This last week has been pretty crazy! We had a group from Jackson Memorial Baptist Church come in from Virginia. We were not really sure what to expect from them because they had not contacted us that much. They arrived on Thursday the 2nd and when they got out of the Car 4 out of 5 of the team had gray hair. A completely different team then the last one that had come here. However, we formed a closer bond with this team. We didn’t waste much time, but got started showing them the town and talking with people setting up meetings. They were awesome because many times when stuff would not work out or things were not going exactly to plan they just went with the flow and made things happen. We all really just want to thank them for coming and being flexible.

During the week we had so many great stories where they were able to help and just have fun with us. For example I ended up getting really sick for about a week and one of the ladies, Eileen, is a pharmacist, so she was able to help me with what type of food I should eat to help my Body get better. Then also Andy made a great connection with one of the Guys named Tom. They joked around a lot and always kept it interesting. One day the Jackson Memorial group and Andy went out for Breakfast and Andy had just woken up, so he went down to breakfast in his shorts and a tee shirt. Well Andy has long legs and his shorts looked really short on him, so it looked like underwear. Tom made a remark that, “I´ve never had breakfast before with a man in his underwear, but now I have.” That was pretty much the tone for the entire week of comradery. We had a great time with them. We were able to also split up and do multiple things because they had two fluent Spanish speakers. We were able to go up to Marachanca twice, and then go out to Huaricina three or four times.

This week we also had a guy named Tommy come into town. He had been here in Peru three years ago and last year doing what we are doing now. He was travling back to the states and wanted to help out here in Peru, so Reap south sent him here. It was awesome having him here. It was really what we needed as a team because he knows how it is to be in a town with people you barely know and work among the Peruvians. He gave us a lot of encouragement and constructive criticism. He was going to be with us the entire next week, but reap south pulled him to translate for another team, but while he was here he was an extreme blessing.

We also got to go to Lima this weekend with the Jackson Memorial team and take some time to go shopping and get some American food, like Chilies and Starbucks. It was really good for our team. We are now back in Matucana and ready to go.

Please pray for our team that we stay health for the rest of the time here in Peru. We only have 17 days here in Matucana, so please pray we take advantage of everyday that we have here. Please pray for the Christians that are here that they would become passionate about learning the word of God and telling others about what he has done in their lives. We want to have a Bible study here when we leave that is self sufficient, so there is still a lot that needs to be done here. Please pray that God would provide the leaders for the group or even groups.

Thanks for all your prayer and keeping up with us. We realy appriciate it all

*Josh