Too much rain! After almost a whole week of rain, we're finding the effects of the humidity all over the house. Besides mold everwhere, the walls have actually been dripping water, the paint on the walls has been bubbling becuase the cement underneath is perspiring, our clothes have been hanging on a covered line for days and there is nothing quite like climbing into bed with damp sheets! EWW!

The first few days of rain were fun, but after a week of almost contstant rain I was about ready to go crazy. I guess I am just a Phoenix girl at heart and can't go more than a few days without blazing sunshine. It is just the beginning of rainy season and I'm already wondering if I'll be able to make it through. This has certainly cured my desire to ever live in the Pacific Northwest!

Thankfully, despite all of the rain, Jason has been able to keep up with the flight scheudle. We got a bit behind last week, but Sunday was a clear day so we were able to play catch up. So far the weather has been cloudy but not too rainy so we've been able to get the team and supplies in and out of the tribe. It has been keeping us busy!

Thank you for all of your prayers when I was sick last week. It ended up not being malaria and was just a bad bacterial infection. I'm feeling quite a bit better but have been having pretty bad headaches since - I wake up with headaches, have them throughout the day and then go to bed with one. Very unusual for me. I've thought about going back to the doctor except that it takes forever to get in (no appointments, just put your name on the list and wait with no where to sit) and the doctor that we see has her office inside of a TB clinic, so I don't like to go unless I really need to. So maybe you could help me in praying for the headaches to go away :-)

Jason said that it has been really fun seeing our coworker's house go up in the tribe. Every time he flies over it he sees one more wall appear. One more week to go for the team so keep praying for sunshine!

Do you think it will fit???

Well, It's Jason so back to Plane Talk. On Monday I started doing supply flights in anticipation of a 13 person team from the UK coming into one of the villages we work in. The first order of business was to take in the refrigerator to store the food (it's for the missionary's house after the team leaves). Believe it or not it did fit!

The team is coming to help build a house. Tim was a single missionary for several years before leaving the tribe for a while to get married. They now have two kids so he's having the "bachelor pad" torn down and will build a bigger place for his family.

This will be my first flying for a team. It will involve quite a few flights as half will be in for about a week and then switch with the other half. I also have several more supply flights before they arrive. Being Typhoon season the weather is not looking great. It's been raining almost since I got back from my Monday flight and doesn't look to be letting up today. Pray that the coming days will be clear!

On my return flight Monday I stopped at another village to bring out 3 Filippinos to have eye surguries done for two of them. One lady had never been farther from the village than the road that they hike down to occasionally. The weather was getting rough from the oncoming storm and the flight was not exactly enjoyable for any of us, especially them. The lady ended up being sick almost the whole flight. Pray that the eye procedures will go well and we'll have a better trip when I take them back next Tuesday.

We thought Jen might have become a "real" missionary yesterday. She had a high fever on Saturday, but was ok until Tuesday when the fever suddenly came back. After consulting our handy Medical Encyclopedia it sounded like malaria (the "joke" is that "real" missionaries have all had malaria). Malaria runs in 2-3 day cycles and starts off with a fever and chills and then is followed by headaches, body aches, stomach troubles, and nausea. We took her in and thankfully the test was negative for malaria, but showed she did have something, so they put her on an antibiotic and she's doing better. We're waiting for Friday to roll around (the 3rd day since her last fever) to see if it has cleared up. If not then we'll have to go down to the hospital for more comprehensive blood work. Pray that she'll be back to 100% soon.

Thanks for your involvement in our ministry here, we are so grateful for all of you!