See you soon, Jeyson!

Right after the sunrise this morning, Jeyson took off for 5 full days of flying in Mato Grosso - a state to the west of us in Brazil. As you might remember, Asas de Socorro is partners with SIL (Wycliff in Brazil) who works with Bible translation in villages/tribes. Here there is only 1 SIL pilot, so Joy (the pilot...who is in fact very joyful!) asked Jeyson to go on this trip as a co-pilot. This is an exciting opportunity for Jeyson to put his training into use and it's even more exciting that all of the flying is related to Bible translation. They are flying to quite a few different places over the next few days, using one of the cities as a hub to make several trips out of. He'll be spending the nights with SIL missionary families.

Taking off from Anapolis, Joy and Jeyson brought 2 SIL missionaries to a city where they will be meeting with others to record part of the Bible in an indigenous language. After dropping them off, they headed to a tribe called the Bororo, where the landed on a grass strip. There, they picked up two Bororo women and brought them to another city where they will receive training for Bible translation. Above is a picture of them landing at the first stop ;)

Technology is amazing! I was given a link to a website that their plane's GPS checks in with every 10 minutes so I can see on a satellite map exactly where they are! Although I'm not responsible for keeping track of their flight (other SIL missionaries do that) it's been fun checking in!

Jeyson being away for the week is somewhat confusing....for example - what do I bother cooking for one person? After 0.37 seconds of contemplation I decided....

I'll be making a huge tray of eggplant parm to eat throughout the week. Jeyson's not of big fan of eggplant as a main dish (something about no meat is hard on a mechanic!) but it's my absolute favorite!!! I'm planning to eat it until I'm purple :)

I'm missing you, Jeyson and praying for you!