Quiet Week

Hello to all on this fine Saturday night.  We had a very enjoyable week.  It sure has been quiet here with 10 high schoolers gone.  On Monday, the entire high school plus leaders (90 some people) boarded airplanes and flew to the opposite coast to a town called Nabire.  They will be there for 2 weeks assisting in various projects like building fences, leading kids clubs, and educating the locals on the topics of HIV and AIDS.  This a annual event, each time in a different location.  So far we have heard that they are doing well, spirits are up and only one is sick.

Back at the hostel, there is our family (of course), along with one 7^th grade boy and one eighth grade boy.  Eight instead of eighteen.  What a difference!

Tonight we decided to invite the community up to our multi-purpose room and show a movie (Night at the Museum 2).  It was a free event and many people came including some who brought their Indonesian neighbors.  It was great fun for Garth and me to be able to host that.

We did get an update on the situation with the thieves that took our stuff on Saturday.  Apparently some Papuans that had been trying to help us found a guy that they think was one of the thieves and they were holding him until the police came.  But, the police never came.  So they let him go.  The police want to be the heroes in this and don’t want just any Joe Schmoe to get credit for capturing these guys.  So they decided to do nothing.  The whole Saturday incident was written up in the local newspaper twice along with a list of everything stolen.  You never know, we may be out one day and see someone walking around in Garth’s big tennis shoes with the bright, orange laces.  That would be so funny!  My feet are bigger than half the Indonesians here-I can’t imagine one of them in his shoes!  Ha ha!

Ps. 25:4-5

Show me the right path, O Lord;

      point out the road for me to follow.

  Lead me by your truth and teach me,

      for you are the God who saves me.

      All day long I put my hope in you.

Hope you are well and enjoy your weekend.  Don’t rush through it-actually relax your way through it if you can.

Love to all

Rachel