Not long after this, our own dog, Arturo –
who, after one scrap too many has to be attached to a dog cable – wore down
that very cable to the point that it was simply useless. Thus, he joined Poppy
round the back of the house we stay in in a large, enclosed area just for the
dogs.
Our priority was simply keeping Arturo in a
safe place where he couldn’t rub yet another person up the wrong way.
Nevertheless, nature took its course and sure enough, as the early morning
light of Thursday rose on Trinidad, the first of five new lives emerged from
their mother’s womb. It was the start of a truly epic ‘labour day’ with the
final pup arriving at some time between 7pm and 9pm (can’t say exactly when as
I was at the Bible study, good missionary that I am).
Here are a couple of pictures. More can be found at my Facebook page.
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| The first picture of Poppy and 'No.1' |
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| Camera loves you, baby |
The second week of the school holidays has
been somewhat quieter, with no 5-Day Club to attend to. However, this being the
‘summer’, we’ve had a few visitors in the last week, and I’ve enjoyed sharing
various aspects of the work with them. Mark Morris, mentioned last week, has
not let his injury get in the way of re-acquainting himself with FT’s work, and
he was in attendance at my English class on Tuesday (indeed, many of the
participants were upset to find themselves stuck just with boring old me again
on Thursday – that said, they couldn’t make out a word of our English when we
conversed). Mark also came along to band practice and, this coming weekend
being his last, he’s decided to cap it off by taking lead vocals at the youth
group. He’s a braver man than I am.
Last week also saw the visit to Trinidad of
a health volunteer we missed by just a few months when we first arrived here,
Mark Connor. Mark’s younger brother, Paul, a student at Georgetown University
has just come to the end of a semester in Buenos Aires and the two of them did
some travelling, with a return visit to Trinidad pencilled in for a couple of
days. They’re Californian and, well, let’s just say, you can take the boy out of
California etc. etc. Paul, with longish hair and a backward-turned baseball cap
had a look that screamed “Bill & Ted”. Mark, with volume turned down to 10,
was the wiser, restraining influence. Nevertheless, it was as great a pleasure
for us to get to know them as it was for our fellow missionaries to re-acquaint
themselves – mind you, for a couple of West Coast Americans, boy, they weren’t
half ginger!
One final item of big news is that the
building work on the house is now well and truly underway and I’m hoping to
document proceedings photographically as the weeks and months go by. At the
back there, you can see the temporary housing which has been built for a
builder to stay in and essentially make sure nothing is stolen during the
night.
Prayer
- For the education workers as the school year resumes this week and we get back into Trinidad’s classrooms.
- For the remainder of Mark’s trip here (he leaves on Thursday, returning to East Kilbride via Canada, where he will be performing best man duties at the wedding of David McColl, another ex-volunteer).
- For the blessing of visitors in the past week.
- For visible signs of progress on our house – we’ve waited some time for those.
¡Que Dios les bendiga!
Craig & Amanda
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