Early Morning Traveling Stinks

Our team has finished research in several of the villages in the Apurimac cluster with only a few left. We have decided to come back to Abancay, which is a large city in the area, and commute to the others cities from there. It has been an interesting couple of days in villages located in the middle of nowhere. In Sabaino I had a delicious lunch of sheep head soup and intestines as an entree. It was, how shall we say, gross. It was all I could do to eat some of it. The next morning we woke up at twelve-thirty in the morning to head to a small town called Huancapampa to catch a bus to another village. The bus was supposesed to be there immediately when we arrived. However, since this is Peru and to Peruvians punctuality does not matter, we sat in the freezing cold from 3 a.m. until 6 a.m. until the bus came. After that things went more smoothly. We got to the next two villages and gathered all our research information. Transportation from village to village, which could be extended over days, amazingly worked out so we went from one to the other and then all the way the Abancay. It is easy to see that the Lord is in control of all details and he proved himself the ultimate provider with our transportation and time in the villages thus far. Please continue to pray for us as we travel to the three remaining villages in this cluster and then onward to another area.