Recap - February 2008

Quininahuin, Chile, South America

That's where I headed to in February!!

It was an awesome trip! There were about 12 of us in the group. Some were already friends, and after two weeks of mountain isolation... the rest became friends. :)

No internet, no TV, no radio, no phone (well, it only worked once, and we had to walk a mile to get to it). We had an awesome time! It was alot of hard work - we were a construction team that went high into the Andes Mts and worked on a school for the local Mapuche Indians.

We also hiked to a waterfall (that was farther than it appeared!), and down to an old swinging bridge, we panned for gold, we had to reroute a mountain stream so we would have water to use, and one of us (not me) went by horse to Argentina!!

We had a lamb prepared for us for dinner one night.

hmmmm....

It was a good thing that none of us named that baby sheep that was next to the kitchen.

We met a young man, "George", that tugged at our hearts and he will be kept in our memories.

Each of us found some of our own strengths, and weaknesses.

It was a humbling, amazing, faith building experience.

SO....

Owen, Van, JoDonn, Steve, Mike, Shelly, Larry, Laura, John, Bonnie, and Nina

Thanks to each of you!