Sideways Rain
- Had a great time at the family reunion at Hatteras, NC! Miss yáll!
- Rach got her root canal and everything is fine with it, but the lasic never got done.
- Xtreme team training is going well
- To date no one has sent letters to the guys in training. Please write letters to these guys. Your encouragement to them is crucial.
- Please pray for kori and Rach as they try to memorize stories in French (its not going so well)
- Rach and Fisher got stalked by a psycho French woman on Ayauascha (the halusinagenic drug used the the local shamans to see spirits)
- Fisher is doing great... he is healthy and growing fast. 4 teeth in two coming s we speak.
- Photos coming when we get back to the states.... sorry for the wait.
Big Ol' Fat Rain
(stories will be seperated by title for you convinience. if your not interested skip tp next topic)
Reunion:
We had a great time at the beach with the Penderg-s and the Roberts Clan. Got a ton of great pictures and enjoyed the fresh ocean air. Fisher gave most of us Laringitis...thanks fisher.
Surgeries:
Upon arriving in Lima we spent two days getting my surgeries done. The tooth was fixed via a root canal. I was sent to a Dr. Carlos who dug out the canal, then I had to walk 3 blocks down the street with a gaping whole in my tooth to get the temp cap put on by Dr burger. The next day he did the gold reconstruction. I am now officially a gangster, or a red neck one. We spent most of 18 hours trying to get my lasic surgery done. They sent us to over four different clinics spent hours getting tests done and then having them tell us they did the wrong tests. i was so frustrated. The best we could tell is that they were afraid to do an imperfect surgery. Their technology could onlyfix up to -8 but my eyes are now -9 and -8.75 so i would have needed reading classes at the most but they were not willing to do it. So se la vie
First day of Training:
We arrived in Iquitos and spent the first 4 days with J and Susan. During that time we were building our hut at the land and sleeping at their house which has all the modern commenities. The day we began building our roof J ( the leader of the Xtreme Team) decided that that was the day our training began. Suprise! I was unaware that we would be going through training) That afternoon a 1/4 of our roof was finished before we ran out of supplies. J, having said that our training had begun that day decided to "make us deal". Praise God Adam (the leader in training) was able to go out and by the rest of the materials for us to finish our roof. At least the "A" frame (not the sides) was finished. That night it poured (as it does most nights). Fisher and I slept together in my hammock and were woken up by what seemed to be a flood of water from the sky. The rain swept throught the hut as though we were standing right under th cloud in open space. Kori and I weighed whether it would be better to hike out in the storm to the closest home or wait in the hut. So we wrapped Fisher in every blanket we had and wrapped our rain jackets on the outside to protect him as much as possible we laid their sleepless, wet and freezing until dawn came and we could hail a moto tax. We decided to go speak to the powers that be and get a hostel until the roof and floor of the hut were finished. Well, we stayed two nights in a pat by the hour hostel( unless you pay 240 USD at one of the finer hotels , theyre all pay by the hour).
Letters to the boys:
Unfortunately the boys have been in training for 6 weeks and have not recieved a single letter. We really desire for the body of Christ in the states to encourage their brothers who are suffering for the Gospel. Please do not neglect Gods invitation to encourage the universal body of Christ.
Xtreme team
Apartado 151
Iquitos
Peru
Rach and Fisher stalked by a drugged up French Tourist:
It was the craziest thing i have ever experienced (and thats saying a lot ). So... I was bathing Fisher, and because there is only cold water here he was screaming his little head off. All of a sudden i heard someone banging at the door yelling "Abre la Puerta" (Open the door). So it took me a second, but i opened the door half dressed with fisher covered in soap and butt naked. A red headed french woman made the owners wife open the door because she said that someone was hurting a child in on the the hostel rooms. When the owner saw it was me and Fisher she smiled at me and took her leave. The French woman stood there staring at me with crazy eyesa. I let her know that Fisher was fine and that she could leave. I basically closed the door in her face. Well i decided to wipe the soap off Fisher with a towel so he would scream and worry the poor french woman. At first i thought "well i can understand... this is a pay by the hour hostel and she heard a baby crying. I too would make sure the baby was safe. " But for the next hour she walked back and forth across my room passing the screaned window and glaring at me. She kept trying to give a message but she was speaking three languages at once. English, French and Spanish. I kept hearing pieces of information like "the two men in your room want to hurt your son" I looked around and said "No ones here". The next time she came by she yelled profanities at us saying "its fing bs" she kept saying in her borken English. I couldndecide whether i should walk outside and confront her and maker her leave or if i should stay in the room and wait for kori to get back from the hut with the things we needed for the night. I decided to stay in the room and spend time in prayer. After not having seen her for a while i went outside and spoke to the owner about the situation. He explained she had caused a lot of trouble and that she and her partner had been going up the Amazon and had been taking Ayuascha ( the hylusinagetic drug taken by the shamans or spiritual healers in the communities of the amazon jungle. It is said they take this drug to see spirits and these spirits tell them what is wrong with someone and the cure.) I can not help but wonder who or what she saw in my room.
Fisher:
Fisher is growing fast. He is babbling non-sense words and standing on his own for 10 seconds at a time. He has 2 top and 2 bottom teeth and two are cutting as we speak. His diareah has subsided and he entertains himself for hour plaing motorboat and indian with his mouth.
Quote of the month:
"Being on the Xtreme Team means youre going to be Xtremely hungery!" -Juan (Trainee)
´til the whole world hears,
kori and Rach