Life in the Jungle...

Day six of our house building project.
We spent a lot of the day getting the table saw up and running. Unfortunately the new blades we have for the table saw have the wrong size center hole. So Tom used his ingenuity and created a spacer out of a washer using a dremmel tool. We also had to create a rip fence (guide) for the table saw. This was easier said than done. It is very hard to get a straight edge on something if you don't all ready have a straight edge. We finally managed to get the table saw running and were laying floor joists by the afternoon.
I have come to love rice and noodles. Thats pretty much what we have every day for lunch & dinner; along with some kind of 'greens' as Matt likes to call them. We are not sure what they are. Tom & Matt don't seem to mind eating them, but I am not a big fan. We also have canned sardines every couple of days, or fish if one of the tribes people bring one by. We have also been eating some dried processed meet to fill in the gaps, in between sardines & fish. We had pig the other day, freshly slaughtered; it wasn't too bad.
Here, we are the oddity. The tribes people watch everything we do. From our daily work, to hanging our laundry to taking a bath. It takes some getting used to, but it is interesting to watch their faces as they watch us working. I am often wondering what they are thinking. When we got the internet & skype up and running that was a lot of excitement. The locals thought it was amazing to see us talking to another person on a Little screen. One of the locals asked Matt if we were talking to Heaven! That should give you some perspective of their way of thinking & how far it is from the civilized world.
I am still working on the pictures. There are so many new experiences and things going on I will probably not be able to write everything on my blog, and get some work done. I have e-mail (tiger79guy@gmail.com) Please feel free to ask any questions, especially once I have the pictures up.
PRAYER REQUESTS...
Please pray for our work pace to keep up, so far the Lord has blessed us with good productivity.
Please pray for the Bayono people, that God light may shine on this tribe and many people will come to know Christ.
Please pray that I continue to enjoy the rice & noodles!
Peace...