June 2018: "The Georges in Peru"
Can you Find the Wound in this 3 y/o?
"Can you bring some money to the ER for me?" my swimming buddy Chris asked. His wife had gone to the highlands leaving him riding herd over their three kids back in Arequipa. While playing at the same park Ben and Sarah used to play in 18 years ago, his three-year-old fell and cut open his forehead. Now at the emergency room, he didn't have money to pay the bill and couldn't leave to go get money. Plus,
Could you please stop rioting? We're having a Bible study here!
This morning, I was in charge of leading the Bible study for the missionary team at another missionary's house. We were about to begin when a loud commotion started outside. Riot police with shields were protecting a man with a generator and arc welder that was cutting the hinges off of the gate. Another man (in pink shirt in photo) was yelling but unable to push past the police. Our understanding was that some residents of the neighborhood locked the gate with a chain about a month ago to reduce the traffic so that only residents would enter. But since residen
Thankful for car alarms
Here in Arequipa, it seems like crime has gone down since when we arrived in 2000. My informal poll of taxi drivers reveals a similar sentiment. One of our missionary colleagues that has had his spare tire stolen three times would probably disagree. I assume it is because the economy is better and there are less desperate people stealing things. The situation in Venezuela would back my hypothesis as an article on CNN just today said that
Do you take these Women to be your Wedded Wives??
Well, the priest didn't actually say that, but he could have.
