It feels like with each passing week, we are significantly more settled and at home here. I don’t feel anymore like I’m just on a trip waiting to go home, I am really starting to feel like Boa Vista is home. I’m shocked to actually feel that way in such a short time, and would have thought that it would take longer, so that’s great. Getting air-conditioning for our bedroom (the 84 degrees we set it at feel like an igloo compared to the rest of our house!) and getting our car and just generally getting in a routine have helped a ton! But there are still a few missing puzzle pieces that are keeping us from feeling totally settled:
- A table - We ordered one over a month ago and it’s taking forever! The most affordable way to get a table around here in the Amazon is having one built for you. Unfortunately, that comes on Brazilian time! I guess I should have gotten a hint when the man we ordered it from said he would be cutting the wood down to make it! Although we’re eating off of a card-type table and it’s working, it would be so nice to feel like we could actually have people over for a dinner!
- Internet! The company still has no idea when they will come out with more available lines in our neighborhood L This is keeping me from staying current on emails, our budget, connected with family, etc. We do get a very very very slow 3 G connection at times and we can do some things at the hangar, but we’d love to get this solved.
- A church – We have been visiting around but haven’t settled yet on where we will go. This makes it hard to build relationships there, so we’re hoping to get settled in the next month or so.
Aside from those missing puzzles pieces, lots of great things have been going on. We had our mission team over for a Brazilian “churrasco” (bbq) No table was required since it was outdoors, and it was a lot of fun.
I also went to a course at the airport to get an id page so I ca enter the airport whenever I want. Since it is a real, official airport, you can’t even get to the Asas hangar alone without the badge. Jeyson did his course already, but I couldn’t at the time we were first getting settled. So now I’ll be official and get free reign!
And this picture really sums things up for me about why this is all worth it.
The other day
Elijah and I stopped by the hangar and our two planes were out on the patio
getting ready for take off. One
was preparing to take 2 missionaries and native Brazilians to a village. The other was getting loaded with
everything from bags of bread to an umbrella to a dog (in a cage)! To be
delivered to another village. Even
though we miss family and many of the comforts of life, this makes it all worth
it. We feel so privileged to spend
our lives this way, making outreach possible in the most remote places. What a joy to really be part of
bringing the Gospel to the ends of the earth!
