Lincoln Mission October 29-November 4 2024

Baptism 

Our friend Genesis got baptized! She was so excited and it was a super special experience. We've been working with her for a while now and were finally able to prepare her for baptism. We also helped Yumanel, a super good guy from pur branch, baptize his daughter on the same day. He was so happy. He had a huge grin on his face during the whole thing. 

Birthday Party

While we were doing weekly planning in the church, we got a knock at the door. We opened it to two girls telling us that a guy named prudencia wanted us to come to his birthday party. We had no idea who prudencia was, but of course we decided to attend. To our surprise, it was the birthday party of the head chief of Ukupa. He sat us down and had us sing "Happy Birthday" to him in english, spanish, and dulegaya. We then ate a hearty meal with some cake at the end. Now we're on a first name basis with prudencia. He also said he would come to church next week, so we're praying that he does.

Late night river crossing

One night this week we had to make the hike to the village next to us to meet some other elders. It's an hour walk along the beach, across a river, and then through the jungle. We started at 5:30 pm and it quickly turned into night. When we arrived at the river we found out it had more than doubled in width. The scary thing about the whole situation is that the river is known to have crocodiles in it and the people here refuse to cross it at night. All we had for light was the flashlight from my phone. I was already on edge because I've heard multiple stories of abnormally large crocodiles being seen along that river bank and now we had to cross it in the pitch black night when the river had doubled in size. We stepped into the water, lifting our packs above our heads and slowly started crossing. The water was brown and opaque, and was getting deeper as we went on. We couldn't see further than three feet in front of us. Then suddenly we heard a large SPLASH as a humongous crocodile jumped from the water and ate my companion! Just kidding. Nothing happened. It was just really scary. 

Other stuff

- ate deer

- carried a ton of platanos

- learned to fish with a net

- learning to weave fans and baskets

- more service

- a lot of guys want to do service with us

- good progress in the other villages

- caught a cat in our house

- independence day from columbia