If I had to pick one word for where we are staying it is this: paradise. It is absolutely beautiful down here, or rather up here since we are below you on the map but up in the mountains here. The view that I see out of my window every morning when I first wake up is of the valley stretched out before me. Then when I turn around I see the top of the mountain towering above me in steep cliffs. We have been staying in a little bungalow that has real bed and a kitchen were we can cook real food. We have running water and semi-warm showers. After being prepared in training camp for a dirt hut in the middle of the bush, this is almost luxury. God has blessed this team with a place to stay like this and we have been enjoying it immensely. The “trade-off� is that we will not be getting to do the type of work that we expected to be doing, which was working with people and the instant gratification that that can provide. It looks like we will be doing a lot of manual labor, the kind that has little if any immediate pay off. But at the same time, we know that it needs to be done and we are working to build a place that is going to house and train many other missionaries to go out into the field. And in the end we are doing what God has called us to do and that has the biggest pay off of all!
