Saturday, May 20, 2006

The Home Stretch

Hi Friends! Our time in Guanabitas is almost over. We leave on Tuesday morning for Tela. Since we last wrote, we have done lots more picking and shoveling, lots more getting to know new people, and lots more church services.

The rainy season started this week, which has cooled things off considerably, as well as brought out all kinds of new creatures--suddenly we are not only hearing dogs barking and roosters crowing, but also frogs croaking at night. In just the few days of rain we´ve had, things have begun to get greener. Fireflies are also around now, as well as lots more spiders and scorpions. One of the girls on our team got stung by a scorpion a few nights ago as we were all sleeping and Jon had one fall out of his pants as he was getting dressed. The same night of the scorpion sting as we were all freaking out about what had happened, another member of our group began throwing up. Yep, the sicks just keep on coming. But, I think we are all healthy at the moment, and hopefully we will see no more illness.

Our team has had lots of great moments together and lots of laughter. Last weekend we went to the caves near here--a great chance to be in cool weather for a while.

The two of us had the chance to sit in on a community meeting yesterday about the water project. It really cleared some things up for us, as well as helped us understand our role here a little better. It was amazing to see the community leader´s love for the people and desire for them to have clean water. They have a long way to go and have had some discouraging things along the way. Please pray for this community--that they will continue to work on the project after we leave and that the resources they need to finish it will continue to come in.

We´re off to get ice cream! We took the bus into Catacamas today--our team´s big attempt at being independent (except that the community members were so worried about us that they sent a truck along to bring us home in case the return bus is too crowded).

Mike Moffitt--I almost cried when I read your email--CONGRATS! We are so happy for you and can´t wait to talk to you when we get back.

Courtney and Alec--Congrats to you, too! I guess we won´t be seeing you in Seattle in August, but we have lots of hope of seeing you more often--you´ll be a day´s drive away! YIPPEE!

We miss you all and hope you are doing well. has anything big happened in the world?

We´ll write more from Tela....ah, the beach.

Julianne and Jon

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