Let's get to down to business...to graft some trees

Well, we've been moving along fast, spending time in the car and time in the fields. Much has been done when we think about what we have done, but more is to be done. The same schedule has been kept, with going to Tambogrande and Malingas during the week, and spending the weekends in Piura. Our time in Tambogrande has involved much time in the fields with the trees, cleaning up and chopping away at the brush surrounding the trunks. I wish we had a time-lapse camera set up to document the brush that we and the workers have gone through. I wish also there were microphones that caught us while we were practicing our Spanish with the Peruvians, it would be funny but mostly embarrassing.

We are hoping that we can catch the very beginnings of the grafting process right now. There were some difficulties and setbacks which kept pushing the date further back. So if we don't get to physically be present for the process, we can still be glad with helping everything get to that point.

But it is really incredible, looking back to when we first arrived, how much we are better understand and speaking the language. We like to bring up and joke about the first time we ordered food at Mcdonald's in the Lima airport, it was like we were trying to perform surgery. 

We are now somewhat switching gears and focusing on some things that weren't in the forefront of our minds before. We installed a water filter many weeks ago in a house in the town of Malingas, and last week the second was given to another family. The time we now have here is getting closer to an end, so we are putting a lot more of our focus on this project. With a list of family names and more filters travelling this way, we hope to install as many as we can before this chapter ends. 

We are getting these filters from the group of Aggies that are stepping off the plane on Tuesday morning. Those guys will be here the 19th. We get the privilege to go along with these guys as they teach english in one of the schools of Malingas. We will also get to have them along with us in the fields and hopefully preparing for the mass installment of water filtration systems. 

It's into the homes that contain little ones as these, that those filters are going. 

We pray that God works wonders and is heavy in the households, around the families, in the fields and schools for a very long time. I wish I had better eyes to see all the big and small things He is doing. 

The cathedral at the Plaza de las Armas. 

He is faithful. He keeps His promises.