Saturday, June 20, 2009

Excerpts from an e-mail Charlie sent Sat. the 20th to answer some questions his family had asked:

"E-mail is broken. I couldn't believe I got that last e-mail through, but I guess it was just lucky. From here on out, all e-mail we get through is bonus. To make it easier for you, expect that you won't hear from us again until we get back into town. (July 9th). We'll keep trying but the chances are terrible that we will be able to get through very often. We don't even know if this e-mail will get through.

We've been working pretty hard. Jesse and I work on construction and maintenance stuff, Lea helps Karie in the clinic, helps teach grades 1 and 2. She taught them basketball last week, and this week she taught them kickball. We do feel as though we have helped the Pryors.

Seems like most of the villagers are not believers, or at least don't go to church. It is really hard to tell though because when people have a dispute, they think they can't go to church...and there are a LOT of disputes over land and stuff like that. So for all we know, the whole village could be saved but not come to church because they're ticked at another villager.

The Pryors live right in the village, but on one end of the main street. They minister to Samban, Painiten, and a couple other villages that are within a few miles.

I think we're over the parasites (hopefully). Karie gave us drugs which killed them.

I think the picture of "our house" on the oipng website is actually the clinic. We'll post a bunch of pictures when we get back to town - of the house, village, villagers, all sorts of things:-)

Jesse and I leave on Monday for the milling trip. We will be gone for five days. We will be staying in a village, in a bush house or village hut (like Samban people do), but we will put up a tent inside one of the houses to sleep in. It is going to be a long, dirty week. Pray for safety - milling is hard work and there will also be thousands of mosquitos.

Thank you for the prayers - we definitely feel the love and support from back home.
Hope to e-mail again soo, but who knows.
-C