Okay time for a little reality check…

We have for the most part been enjoying our time here in Papua. But as I mentioned earlier we have also had some sobering moments as well.

Remember I mentioned the mattress they wanted me to sleep on here in the house, well this is a picture of it. The black line to the left of the tear is an ant highway. You can pray for my endurance/patience. The reality of the bugs everywhere that you can't escape from was one of my first sobering moments. They are absolutely everywhere and our house is full of them. Joerg and I (Selfi too) have been virtually eaten alive since we arrived…we are talking hundreds of bites. Mosquito spray and nets only go so far. I gotta tell you our sanity is a little thin at times because of all the itching, so pray for endurance. You could also pray that we will stay healthy because with all of these skeeter bites we are testing these malaria meds to their limit.
This is not a wealthy village we are living in so people here don’t have much and they, for the most part, don’t spend what little money they have on toothbrushes. Before I left Boise I got a Colgate representative to donate over 300 toothbrushes for the people here. And finally after hauling them half way around the world we handed them out the other day and they were really excited.

Please pray for the people of Papua, we have seen some of the darkness that they live in. There is nothing "romantic" about the simple life...they do not have things because they like it that way...they do not have things because they don't have them, but they are the same kind of people in their core as we are, with the same sin nature. I know that Joerg mentioned in his post the woman that was beating her child, but I also have to mention it because of the impact it had on me to watch that scene. It was pretty awful. Please pray for the Papuan people that God would shine a light in the darkness.

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Please pray with us that God would be glorified in Boise, Papua, and wherever there are Christians to shout His praise.

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In Christ, Jen