¡Te Amo Peru!

Finished?

2006-08-01T16:35:00.000-05:00

I'm finally home...

Filling the time...

2006-07-30T11:09:00.000-05:00

Hey guys...I don´t know if anybody checks this anymore, but just in case...

As you know, we are in Lima, and we fly out tomorrow night at 11:55. Pray for safety. We have a really short layover in Houston, so pray that our plane leaves Lima in time. Missing a plane is not on the itinerary. Well...Thanks for everything! See you guys soon!

FINISHING UP...

2006-07-26T09:34:00.000-05:00

Hey guys...

We are in Lima, and everything is going fine. All of the teams should be in tonight (except for a few stragglers coming in Thursday). Everybody's travels have gone mostly well, minus a few discomforts (some people had up to twenty-two hour bus rides). It is so cool to see everyone again, but Lima is REALLY expensive! Thank you for your continued prayers.

FELIZ CUMPLEANO...ish

2006-07-15T11:57:00.000-05:00

Well...If you have read Audra´s latest post, you know about my week. It was eventful! I have recovered, though. To answer a few questions...Yes, I am DEFINITELY coming back to choir, Linda Bass! I want to do the same kids (move up to second grade). Lynda Mote-You got it...Colton´s is great! Garry Upton (and everybody)...We fly in August 1 at 9:13 AM.

Well...I have an announcement! Today...is my half birthday! I am officially nineteen and a half! We had eggs for breakfast. Audra and I cooked them, but Tommy was a party pooper and didn´t want to participate in the celebration, even though it is also his half birthday!

We went to the school yesterday to teach "first and second grade" English. It ended up being first though sixth grade. It was nuts...muchos niños! We taught numbers and colors. Again...NUTS! They were so loud, and there were only two teachers for all of the grades. We taught them to count to twenty.

We have six more days in the village, and seven more days until we get to shower! How exciting! Thank you for your prayers, everybody!

FUN STUFF...

2006-07-12T10:17:00.000-05:00

Today...We did laundry. We were chased by these two bees whose stingers are at least an inch long, and they land booty-first, so if they land on a person, that´s it...instant death. Well...slight exaggeration, but I think that would be an allergic reaction for the ages.

Other than the bees, everything is relatively calm here. We held our second Bible study last night, this time at five, instead of eight, but it was still REALLY cold. We had our faithful attender, Lucho, and one girl who he more or less forced to come. She is a really sweet girl, though, and when we were done, they were like ¨Can we read more?¨ So, of course, we did. We read from Romans 8, the second time, and it seemed to hit home. I hope so.

Anyway...That´s about all. Here are some ¨paso a paso´s¨ for all of you who don´t know. Step 1: Just hit the comments, at the bottom of this post. Step 2: Post under änonymous.¨ Step 3: Sign your name. That´s just for those of you that don´t know how to post. Maybe I will hear from more of you. If that´s still to complicated, drop me a note at hereami.sendme@hotmail.com. Thank you guys for everything!
Sally

FELIZ

2006-07-04T11:30:00.000-05:00

So...The only news I have for tonight is the best news EVER (for right now, that is).

I GOT ACCEPTED INTO BAPTIST SCHOOL!!! Yeah...some of you may not have even known that I was waiting (anxiously) for that, but it was going out in my next prayer mail! We are throwing a party in our casa tonight, and if you would like to have a little party of your own for me, I definitely give you permission. Also, we have a baño, now, FINALLY. Thank you guys so much for your prayers!!!

Doing cartwheels in the streets.
Sally Shuler
Matthew 7:7-11

FAITHFUL...

2006-07-03T12:00:00.000-05:00

Matthew 7:7-11

We finally arrived in Huayacundo Arma this morning at about 6 AM, via a combi (small van/bus) which carried 26 people, and left Huaytara at 4 AM. It was nuts. Somebody needed to brush their teeth.

Anyway...When we arrived in Huaytara last night, we had a note from Dave saying that we now had electricity and a baño! This is good news, but the lady providing the baño may have changed her mind, so we are going to talk to her whenever Tommy gets ready to. Hopefully, she will be nice. She told the team we could use it, but she is retracting that offer, now. We are not yet sure about somebody to cook for us because we have no contact with the team that was here last week. We are currently waiting for a little pop-up, saying we have a new e-mail from Dave or Phil.

Alright...You should leave encouraging comments or e-mails (hereami.sendme@hotmail.com). More than that, however, you should PRAY. God has shown me so much this summer about the power of prayer, and I don´t want the constant prayers to stop. Thank you guys so much for everything! Pray for me specifically these next three weeks for patience and focus. We are planning to leave here the 22nd of July because the next week is Peru´s independence day, and traveling is difficult, so we will travel to Lima the 23rd most likely. Thank you, again!

In His name.
Sally Shuler

FIND A NAME...

2006-06-30T13:13:00.000-05:00

So...We are in Nazca, and we were supposed to leave today at 11, but Sarah and Drew went back to Lima, and Tommy was throwing up all night, so we decided to stay here another night.

I have a task for you...We need a name for this puppy...She is the cutest puppy in the whole world, but I don´t really like the name ¨Sally¨ for it, so I need to be able to give a suggestion when I object. I think she should be named ¨puppy.¨

We will be leaving tomorrow around noon. Pray hard guys. I know God can provide food, toilet, and electricity, so PRAY!!!

FEELIN GOOD!

2006-06-24T11:13:00.000-05:00

I am sorry I am a bad Peru missionary and don´t update, but somehow, I always...yes, always...get the cursed computer. Take right now for example. My mouse does not work on the right side of the screen, and my keyboard is having issues!!!

Anyway, thank you all for your prayers! I hear everyday that somebody new is praying for me! How exciting, and it is sooo working!!! I am not saying that prayer team is superior or anything, but I will say that I was the only one that did not get sick...Well, not as bad, at least...

Our group is coming in this afternoon, and I am sooo excited!!! I have heard rumors of a care package that my mother has sent, and it has HOMEMADE cookies in it!!! Woohoo! If only it had some good ol´ North Amerian skim milk...OK, so maybe that wouldn´t work out well, but I sure would really like some!

Well, I have to go, but as I promised, I will talk about Rosita Ramos first. She is a...well...¨singer¨ here in Peru. In fact, she wrote her songs about all the little pueblos in which we are working this summer, and she proceded to film her...um...¨music videos¨ here. Well...Rosita sounds like an injured three year old, and they play her NONSTOP!!! At the fiesta talent show, there were about ten acts, all done to Rosita, in some form, and that is what we wake up to every morning. So...if you have no vocal talent what so ever and still wish to become famous, I know how. Unfortunately, so does Rosita...

OK...I will talk to everybody soon. Seeing as we have internet here, we are trying to get on AIM as often as possible. If you add me (swimminsally), say hey when you see me on, because I don´t have screen names here. We are going to be on today between one and two. Also, I fixed my blog, so I expect everybody to comment! Thanks guys!!!

FIESTA

2006-06-15T19:02:00.000-05:00

Phew...The fiesta is finally over! It turned out to be for the local soccer tournament, not the World Cup. It was...well...interesting. I am pretty good at hearing Spanish, but for some odd reason, I have a disability when it comes to understanding drunk men...Hmmm...We decided to not stay at night the last two nights and were still approached by approximately 5645612315874 drunk men and two women. We bought lunch at the fiesta instead of cooking our own those two days, and my food was floating in some type of rather disgusting green juice...This is the first thing that I just have not liked in Peru and have refused to eat. We are spoiled by the lady who cooks for us at night. Her food is really good! Last night we had Chaufa...the Peruvian take on Chinese food. It is my favorite of hers. I´m afraid we are going to be spoiled after this month with beds, a toilet, and good food. We may be in for a shock next month. At least our friends (and of course my WONDERFUL, BEAUTIFUL, AWESOME Mom) are hooking us up with some good lunch food and snacks to eat between lunch (noon) and dinner (eight). They are the best!!! Anyway, thank you guys sooo much for your prayers and encouragment. You are the best! Next time, I will tell you about ¨Rosita...Rosita Ramos!!!¨

FINALLY

2006-06-11T16:02:00.000-05:00

So we are finally getting to contact the outside world!!! The Barnabas team got here and felt sorry for us, so they are taking us out of the village to use the internet, eat out, and load up on supplies. What a God-send!!! I was laying in bed this morning (naturally I was the only one up), and I kept hearing ENGLISH! I was like ¨guys...do you hear that?!¨ *Note...there is a gap in the top of the wall between the rooms, so we can hear eachother...Tommy is NOT in our room* They were like...No...Go to sleep. Then, a couple minutes later, we hear ¨Tommy?!¨ Tommy actually knows the team from home, so that is really cool!

So we have been having interesting lunches (the meal we cook ourselves)...Mac and Cheese (minus the milk and cheese), barely cooked spaghetti, and rice that is both under-cooked and over-cooked at the same time. Don´t ask how that happened...It sure is interesting, though!

The water in the shower may possibly be the coldest thing I have ever felt in my whole life. It´s actually river water that comes out of a spicket. I was quite offended when I stuck my head underneath it (after I caught my breath four minutes later), but at least we have a way to get clean.

Does anybody know if it is possible for a three year old to have colic? We are 99.9999999999% sure that the child that lives underneath us does, either that or she is just extremely spoiled. I´m pretty sure it´s the latter.

There is a HUGE fiesta in one of our towns this week. From what we have figured out, it is for the World Cup. We aren´t sure, but we know the family we are staying with wants us to got with them, and everybody in the whole village keeps asking us if we are going to dance...Ahem. Apparently, ¨we are white¨doesn´t mean anything to them, and they keep telling me that I can be Shakira, so this should be interesting...No, I am NOT belly-dancing!!!

Anyway, thanks sooooo much for all your love and support. If you would like to check Audra and Tommy´s blogs, I will try to list them on here for you. Thanks everyone!!!

FAR FROM HOME

2006-05-29T09:46:00.000-05:00

Hey everybody. We are in Pisco (not Pesces, Lynda Mote). This is about 4-5 hours away from where we wanted to be, but it was defninitely God´s work that we are here. We went out to a village (Tambo) that our team won´t be working with this summer to just find out a few things and tell them about the team coming in June. It was about 3 1/2 hours out there and four hours back on a crazy dirt road. We barely got back to the village where we spent the night with gas. The village STILL didn´t have power, so we had to dip a couple gallons out and head the opposite direction of where we wanted to be. On the paved road, we kept hearing a noise that sounded like one of the tires, so we pulled over after it got worse for about an hour. It WAS the tire, and in fact, it was working its way right off, and was barely on. This means that if we would have decided to try to make it to our village, we would have never heard it, and who knows what would have happened on a little dirt path on the side of the mountain when it fell off. God is good (all the time)! I love you all, and I will see you soon!

Still excited,
Sally Shuler

P.S. Hopefully, we will have internet in the village, but if not, it will be about three weeks!!!

FINALLY HERE!

2006-05-24T21:20:00.000-05:00

Hey guys! We arrived in Lima last night. Our flight was, well...it got there...We had a baby in front of us, a baby beside us, and a baby behind us. Also, there were two small children behind us. As you can imagine, we did not sleep much, but we are here and safe, so it´s all good.

I had a lot of prayers lifted up for me this last week, but the one that meant the most may have been the simplest. It came from a five-year old girl who just wanted to pray for me:

¨Dear Jesus, thank you for this day, and thank you for loving us Thank you for taking Sally to Peru, and help her there. We love you. Amen¨

FIRST POST

2006-05-11T23:40:00.000-05:00

OK...So I finally did this blog thing! Don't expect anything spectacular. I will really not start updating until I am down there!