It hit me the other day that my perspective about what is normal and acceptable has completely changed since being on the world race…let me describe our last week….
…my teammate Stacey jumped from a high ledge this week and really bruised both her feet, thought she may have broken some bones…went to the hospital in Transnistria and said she felt like she was transported back into the early 1900s with the kind of medical equipment and X-rays that she got…walked out later with medicine and cream and the total cost for everything?? SEVEN DOLLARS! They didn’t even charge her for the x-rays and praise God nothing is broken!
…two of our boys, Tommy and Kameron, were in “Beaver Town” from Friday-Monday figuring out Tommy’s beaver business he is starting here in Moldova…Tommy was in Moldova last month and through prayer and hearing from the Lord Tommy’s heart was moved to help support his ministry contact who pours his life into the orphanage he runs and also into planting churches in Moldova. This ministry contact was really struggling financially and Tommy was led to start a beaver business with him. Tommy purchased 25 beavers which by the end of the year will be about 240 beavers in which then they can sell to restaurants for their meat and have money for the ministry. Tommy is purchasing all the materials to build the beaver cage and headed down this past weekend with Kameron to get all needed supplies….which then this month our teammates from the squad (two teams are there now) will build the beaver house!…
…we wake up in the morning to find that our cereal has been taken over by lots of ants and instead of doing what may typically be “normal” to most we realize that once you pour in the milk most of the ants swim to the top and you can fish them out…our awesome men took the first servings of cereal with 50+ants and the girls had 10-20 ants…I said sweet I only got 10 ants!…lol they don’t have normal cereal here and the milk comes in bags…awesome
