Tidbits from the Home-front and Steve Saint

After the traumatizing event of a LARGE bug flying in our bedroom window and landing on Jeyson's head recently, we are happy to announce we have we now have a screen! Since window screens are pretty much nonexistent here, Jeyson set to work creating his own screen. We bought some wood and screen type netting and set to work. He made a frame from the wood, nailed the screen to it, and nailed the whole thing outside our bedroom window. Unfortunately, it doesn't open, but we really would have no reason to open that window anyway, and it's MUCH better than bugs!





Sadly I didn't get a good picture of the actual homemade screen, but here you can see Jeyson outside the window putting it into place.



Hard at work....





Yay! No more bugs!



Also on the home-front, recently we were so excited to finally find an alternative to tortillas! Probably like most of you, we LOVE Mexican food so we were so sad knowing that there are no tortillas (or anything Mexican) in Brazil. Some American missionaries miss Mexican food so much that they make their own tortillas, but I just didn't have patience for rolling each one out. When Johnny and Krista came down to visit they brought us Costco sized jars of taco seasonings but we still had the dilemma of what to put the fillings on. I tried making a sort of crepe, but it tasted like eating a taco and pancake at the same time! Then one day we were taking a walk and passed by a store that sells Arabic food (which is very popular here, believe it or not!). We stopped in and found this bread pictured above. It's called "sheet bread" and amazingly is VERY much like a tortilla! We were so excited! Right away we started having Mexican food on Arabic bread and it's great! It tastes 90% like a dish of genuine Tex-Mex!



Since we are now mostly using our motorcycle, it makes things like shopping for groceries a little more complicated. However, we were happy to find out that our local grocery store delivers right to your house for free if you spend over about $35 (US). It was such a great service that they even brought our groceries into our house and divided up types of groceries for us! It's funny that for the most part paper towels here are really low quality - they really can't absorb anything and fall apart as you wipe. However, the one brand that works like the US kind is a tiny bit more expensive and is called SNOB of all things! It makes me laugh every time I use them!

Above is a picture of the English conversation group this week. I taught them how to make American chocolate chip cookies and then they had to make a presentation showing how to make them as if they were on a cooking show. For a moment they were a little shy, but relaxed and we had a great time laughing and talking! Our Bible study part of the group has become more and more interesting as the students are getting more comfortable and ask great questions.

Jeyson's study spot on the second floor of the hangar.
This is where is works on preparing for his written commercial pilot's test.





You might remember from last week I mentioned about Steve Saint visiting us at Asas. Yesterday afternoon we went over to the hangar to hear him speak.



Around the hangar waiting for Steve's arrival.



Steve Saint is the son of Nate Saint, whose story you have probably heard of in the book "Jungle Pilot" or the movie "The End of the Spear". You can read a little bit about his life on Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate_Saint It was so encouraging to hear Steve's message. Here are some pictures

It was a fairly small group so we were able to ask questions and have a more personal time of learning from him.

Here's a picture of all of the missionaries involved in being trained or training others as pilots with our mission with Steve Saint. Jeyson is in the back row next to the man in the yellow shirt.