Friday, August 13, 2010

The Dell family had a great trip to visit the Waorani! We visited our friends both in Shell and Puyo (towns and cities on the edge of the jungle) where we attended a new-to-us Waorani/Spanish church in Puyo. It was great to hear the message going both from Spanish to Waorani and from Waorani to Spanish and at one point we even got some English to Waorani translation. From there we flew into the village of Tiweno where we got a nightly visit from this great tarantula. I helped dig a drainage ditch alongside the airstrip one day and Rachelle and Tali did a lot of work on some string and string bags while visiting with the ladies.

Our next village visit was to Damointaro where we joined in with a Bible conference run by Gaba from that village. We got to see lots of folks who traveled to town for the conference and joined in with soccer and games and dishwashing and cooking. Our Friend Chet Williams and his coworker Dana were there with a few team members to help out as well. The men there asked me to organize another mechanics workshop for them so if you know your way around the inside of a small engine and want to help then let me know.

From there we went back to where we used to have our house--Tzapino. The pace was much more laid back than the conference setting and we had a blast just hanging out and visiting. I got to join a couple of guys on a short spear fishing afternoon and we just had fun at the river swimming and bathing.

I think we all had a great time despite chigger bites and long hard walks for Rachelle. Everyone is tired but happy we did it. What a great summer.










5 comments:

sandrajn said...

Hi Nate and Rachelle,
Was great to read your blog. Lenore Dolph found it and sent me the link. You are all looking GOOD!

So I got this mail...AND I thought of you, Nate, right away....
so here it is....FOR ALL YOU PUN LOVERS!!! YOUR RATION FOR THE DAY!!!!!

Puns for educated minds



1. The fattest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.

2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian .

3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.

4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class, because it was a weapon of math disruption.

5. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.

6. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.

7. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.

8. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.

9. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

10. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

11. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other: 'You stay here; I'll go on a head.'

12. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.

13. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: 'Keep off the Grass.'

14. A backward poet writes inverse.

15. In a democracy it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your count that votes.

16. If you jumped off the bridge in Paris , you'd be in Seine .

17. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, 'I'm sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger.'

18. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. One turns to the other and says 'Dam!'

19. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it too

20. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, 'I've lost my electron.' The other says 'Are you sure?' The first replies, 'Yes, I'm positive.'

21. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? His goal: transcend dental medication.

22. There was the person who sent ten puns to friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did.

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Nate and Rachelle Dell said...

Those are great! Well, sorta. Thanks