The highlight, getting to visit Palm Beach for 5 missionaries, Nate Saint and Jim Elliot among them, were martyred. We took a long bus trip into the mountains and arrived at the Saint home.
Then we loaded up in small airplanes (Cessna) that flew into the jungle along the Amazon River to get to the Woaodani people at Tonampade.
New we hiked down into the jungle...
to get to these long canoe to take us down the river to Palm Beach. It is their tradition to save their baptisms for when visitors come to show how God is continuing to work because of the sacrifice of these men to share the love of God with them. It was neat to hear the multiple translations it took to get to English so we could understand what was being said.
The whole experience was very surreal. We then turned around and made the trek back to the village and spent the rest of the day with the people as they shared moments of their culture with us. Because of all it takes to get to this particular village we were told to pack our bag with the intention of maybe needing to spend the night if weather didn't permit us to get back out. The weather held out, although there was a plane mix-up and we ended up taking a nap on the floor of the church building, but we made it out that day. Wow, what a day it was!
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