Archive for Helicopter
Busy busy
Wendy: What a busy time of year even over here, far from the holiday rush of the civilized world. It's been an exhausting but fulfilling and adventure-filled week.
We just finished a week of mobile clinics with health talks and Bible stories in some remote AFM and PFM projects. We had a volunteer Filipino doctor with [...]
Feeling better
Dwayne: Since the last post I had to take a second malaria treatment because the last one did not cure me completely. I was not sure if the second one worked but after much prayer the Lord gave me relief and I am still feeling good.
Eric also came down with malaria and is just getting [...]
Malaria again and PFM trip
Dwayne: I am recovering from the worst malaria episode that I have had. It started 4 days ago. I had close to 104 degree temps a lot of the time. Part of why it lasted so long was I was trying some natural stuff (Demol) that you spray under the tongue at certain intervals. It [...]
Helicopter excitement; training new nurses
Dwayne: God has been good to us these past weeks. I finally got our flat-bed trailer finished and made a back bumper for our pickup so we can pull the trailer. Wendy has been training the new student missionaries into the clinic.
I had an interesting Sunday a week ago. I had to take a seriously [...]
Thwarted theft
Dwayne: An eventful month has passed since we sent out our last email update. When Tod was over here we had bought some parts for building a trailer. We had four leaf springs and a couple of axles I had put out back of our apartment and someone decided to run off with the leaf [...]
Mami goes to church
Wendy: We are seeing the Holy Spirit working in these last days. Mami, the biggest leader, witch-doctor, and former antagonist of our work came to church a couple Sabbaths ago! He did not come to get medicine or for any other reason except to learn! He then came again the next Sabbath!
He also interrupted the [...]
Waiting and looking
Dwayne: Things have been slowly moving along here.
I was in the process of tracking and balancing the helicopter after we had gotten it back together and found I had a bad main rotor damper. That fact has kept me from flying regularly and I am waiting on a good one to arrive from the States. [...]
Flying again
Wendy: I have exciting news… the helicopter is back in the air! Dwayne took it out to Brooke's this a.m. for it's first flight in about 4 months. He needed to get to Puerto for some business so he flew out and then took the motorcycle all the way up there and back and then [...]
It’s official
Wendy: It's great being back "home" in the mountains and having a wonderful husband to share things with now! As soon as we got here, Dwayne went to work right away on our hut and within a couple days he had a place for our bed (so we wouldn't have to put it up every [...]
I’m home!
Wendy: Well here I am in the land of plenty. I feel so selfish, but not too much! Eating and napping and reading, doing email, reading, and eating some more . . . that's what my days have been filled with! No patients or kids at my door at 6:00 a.m. No night meds . [...]
