My last week in Bolivia…

Let’s see…I got crashed into by a taxi driver who tried very hard to blame me and get me to pay for the damages…which were more serious for his little car and not so serious for my big truck.  If you look really, really close you can see a dent in my back bumper.   He, on the other hand, had to throw his headlight into the back seat.  And he won’t be openning or closing his hood for awhile…  In the end he backed down and just told me that it was on my conscience if I didn’t pay.  Yea…I can pretty honestly say that it never even got close to being on my conscience.  The funny thing was that I didn’t really catch most of his little speach about my conscience and whatnot.  When he was done I just looked over at Isabel and was like, “Well…can I go?”  She was like, “Yep.” 

Good enough then.

We went to see “Wolverine” for my despedida (going away party)…in Spanish.  Fortunately my fellow Saskatonian, Olya, was there with me, so we could discuss what was going on and what we thought was being said.  Best moment?  When the American military guy tells Wolverine to fight for his country.  Wolverine replies, “It’s not my country!  I’m Canadian!”  Olya and I woo hoo-ed loud enough for the whole theatre to hear.  Even if no one else appreciated it, my guys thought it was pretty funny…

For those of you who pick up on the details and notice that I’m about to post this at 3:30 AM-ish and wonder why I’m still up (when I leave for the airport in three hours).  I’m waiting for my clothes to dry.  We’ve had 30+ degree weather for the past month.  The day before I’m about to travel and I need to do laundry and have clean clothes?  It’s cloudy, cool and humid.  I’ve got clothes hanging all over the house with our fans going full speed to try to dry them and get them packable.  I’m thinking I may be a little damp when I leave in…three hours and twenty one minutes…

Finally….we’ve had some definite up and down moments with some of the guys here this past week for sure.  But I sat down with Andres last night and we had a great conversation about his life and how he feels he’s changed and matured while living here at the house, over this past year.  That was encouraging to hear.  =)  I learned early on that this is the kind of ministry where you can be dealing with some pretty lame things one moment and then be encouraged and see good things happen the next.  It was good for me to have that conversation and focus on some of the good that God’s doing… 

Thanks for praying everyone.  Please continue to do so!  =)  Things will go one without me here, so I know my volunteers and the guys would appreciate your prayers! 

I will be on Canadian soil at 2:10 PM, Friday afternoon.