A message from Jayanne –

Hello from the Amazon! It’s Thursday, July 2nd and we had another great--very hot--day in Brazil. Last night Margie and several others tried to sleep on the top of the boat. Margie was the only one who made it through the night, so great praise to her for being able to sleep outside all night.

It’s so interesting to see all the different tropical vegetation here and all the different people groups living in the villages. Today we met a 95 year old man and his wife, Mary, who have lived in this village for, well ‘forever’ (I believe). Please have everyone pray for her; she has a wound on her leg with an infection that needs to heal. She’s blind and he’s deaf, so she is his ears and he is her eyes. They live here together and they’re a great little couple and are just very interesting to get to know.

The nurses were really busy here today. We had a ton of people come into the clinic. It makes us realize just how blessed we really are to have such great medical care. There were people coming by canoe from all the different villages to get Tylenol and cough syrup because they don’t have those things in their medicine cabinets. It makes us very grateful for what we have back at home.

We had 45 kids at vacation bible school today. They were jumping around and having a great time. They loved having their pictures taken and we put the photos in little frames for them. We really had a blast with the kids today.

The guys were kind of free today since there was no construction going on. They just went around the village and helped out, hiked, and learned. They really enjoyed themselves.

We ask that you will pray for us as tomorrow will be our last full day here. We will be visiting our fifth village. We’ll start traveling back in the morning, so please pray that we’ll see God work in great and unexpected ways as we spend our last day here.

We love all you guys and miss our families. Hello to everyone and we’ll see you on Sunday!

Posted by Sarah Leemon