Oh oh…I’ve got a big problem here at the house…

The boys ran out of toilet paper last night, so I dipped into my private stock of Canadian TP left over from the team at Christmas.  To cut down on costs here, usually each team member brings a couple of rolls.  There’s always some left over, and they just leave it here.  I don’t mean to be selfish exactly…but come on!  Toilet paper from home!  It’s not like I buy bad stuff for the guys….

But now…they know what the really good stuff is like.  That’s a problem.  Now they want to share and…well, I don’t.

I’m not sure if this makes me a bad person or not.  But I’m pretty sure it makes me a bad missionary…
  

It’s late, so unlike normal, this’ll probably be a bit short.  I just wanted to ask you to pray for me/us tomorrow as we finish getting ready for the Saskatoon Christian School.  They arrive Friday morning bright and early.  If you know me at all, you won’t be surprised to hear that I’m not totally ready (although the big stuff is in the bag).  So there’ll be a lot of running around and buying things tomorrow.  It’s a big team (twenty seven I think) and we’ll be eating most of our meals here at the house.  I realized yesterday that we don’t actually have plates/silverwear/chairs, etc. for thirty five plus people (including us).  As well, the guys are sleeping here at the house, so that means finding foam mattresses (I haven’t the foggiest where you’d buy those here…), and getting things set up for them.  

But like I said, the big stuff is figured out.  Over the next week we’ll be visiting a drug rehab home, the woman’s prison, a couple of different children’s homes.  As well, we’ve got work projects set up…so we’ll be keeping the team pretty busy. 

I’m excited to have them here.  It’s always fun to have people visit from home.  And my mom is sending a care package down…so that’s a happy thing too.  =)  But please pray for the team and for our week together.  It’s going to be a busy one.  Pray that the kids connect with and develop a heart for Bolivia and the people here.  Pray for safety as we work and travel around Santa Cruz.  Pray for an openness in the hearts of the people we meet and minister to. 

I’ll try to keep this updated as I have time.  If any parents are reading this, feel free to leave messages for your kids…I’ll make sure to pass them along. 

Thanks in advance for your prayers.  As always, we appreciate them.  As a side note, I think Jimmy is doing okay, but please continue to pray for him as well.  I’m sure it’ll take some time to work through how he’s feeling about his friend’s death.

Thanks everyone! 

PS…Just another little side note.  It’s interesting…I write about life here at the home…life in Bolivia…share prayer requests, etc…and I get my usual 50-60 people or so who regularly check in to see what’s going on down here.

But then I write about finding a random band-aid on…my anatomy…and I get three times that many people coming to read the story. 

I’m not really sure how to feel about that.    =)