Our Bolivia Mission
The kids and I got several shots yesterday. The health department was out of the yellow fever so we’ll go back next week for that.
There are few things more enjoyable for a person prone to panic attacks than reading all the warnings of possible severe reactions on the literature handed out before you get your shots. Before the nurse even gets near you with the needle you can feel your face going numb and your throat closing up.
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I’m kidding. It wasn’t bad at all. I’ve learned to manage the panic attacks and they haven’t bothered me much in the last couple of years. When I start feeling one coming on, I just remind myself that if God thinks I need to suffer, he’ll manage to make me suffer whether or not I get the stupid inoculation (or whatever else it is that I’m afraid of).
It’s quite freeing to realize that you can’t protect yourself from God. Because once you look at it in those terms you see how silly that is. As if you needed to protect yourself from God.
Duh!
But I do believe in secondary causes–I do believe God uses prayer (along with inoculations) to take care of us. So if you have time this week, we’d love prayer for the physical health of the team.
Four from our team (two adults and two kids) went down last week. They’ve joined ten down there (two families) for a trip up the Beni River. There are two doctors and two nurses in the group and they are hoping to work with primitive peoples. Please pray for their health and protection as well as God’s blessings on the contacts they make.
The rest of the team members here in the States are learning Spanish songs. That’s fun. We’re also working on VBS plans.
Here is a picture of some of the Aore (pronounced IRA–like the Irish Republican Army, not the man’s name) children our team will be working with when we go down next month. With their chubby cheeks they remind me of the little kids from the Alaskan villages.
Thanks for praying for us!
sally
