Heather's Mission Adventures: July 2008

We had a very busy and blessed two months with many visits from very special people. New Covenant was here all the month of June, my cousin John came for two weeks, and then we had a group from Alabama/ Tennessee join us.

Happy Birthday Jonattan, we now have a newborn child, a 1,2,3,4and FIVE year old in the house!

The Bridgeway team actually stayed with us at Pat's Place for 10 days utilizing the fourth floor. We all had a great time!

We were blessed to have Edgar take the kids to school in style one day that we were running on "Peruvian" time.

Mattias loved playing with John and his play dough.

The Alabama team took us to a beautiful Park, Parque de Las Reservas, full of many different lit fountains. The favorite of all was the one you can play in, "trying" not to get wet.

All the kids found special buddies on the team while we enjoyed the park.

Miss Sabrina, Pastor Tony's wife came almost everyday to Pat's Place during her week in Peru to counsel the women and children. God did some awesome work through her!

We celebrated Diana's first birthday with a typical Peruvian "Matinee". Our beautiful little princess had a great time, but I think we enjoyed it more!

Thanks to Julio, a wonderful servant in the church, our party was complete with a clown who ran the whole show!

Piero and Luis love their "new" jammies brought by the team- what a blessing!

Lina and her almost two month old, Karla and doing just great!

We were excited to finally get to Trujillo after 9 hours on the bus (all night long). Behind us is their main Plaza

These are the ruins of one of the Peruvian Wonders, called Huaca de la Luna and Huaca del Sol. It was truly amazing to see the artwork and intelligence put into this work by the Moche Indians.

This is part of the wall of the fourth temple (there were five, each one built over the other every 100 years). The temples are an inverted pyramid with each new temple bigger than the last, but the outside structure was in the shape of a regular pyramid as each 100 years the bottom layers grew to support the building.

The natural colors of each floor have been preserved over the years because they closed up the older temples by closely placing adobe bricks to the walls, filling in the whole area, and then building the next temple on top. You can see the layers from the third and fourth temples.

This is looking at Huaca del Sol from inside Huaca de la Luna. It has yet to be excavated, but it's the bigger of the two.

We finally got to visit with Blanca's family the day before we left. It was great to see her dad's only remaining blood brother who reminds us a lot of him.