Fishers of men

Friday was a blast. We met up with Marc & Buffy at their house, which is awesome by the way. It is all by itself at the end of their road and all they see in front of them is the beautiful ocean. There is a walkway out to a little island, with a few homes on it, out in front of them. That is where the boat is, that Marc uses. So, Justin & him went to get the boat and then they picked us up in the canal behind their house. It was pretty cool. Years ago the pirates cut through the mangroves and made these little waterways so they could navigate around without having to go in the open ocean. Tour guides will bring tourists out to boat through these for $25 a person, Marc said. So we got a free tour! You always get to see the best things when in service, don't you? We see more of areas than anyone else, even locals! So we were off, trailing through little mangrove canals and then open bays and then back through little canals. We got to see some of the little housing developments only accessible by boat, but most of the areas we went, we could get to by car as well. It's just much faster to travel around by boat. We didn't get to do any door to door though. Marc & Buffy had a full schedule of calls & studies. We just enjoyed the ride & sights. They had a lot of good calls. We invited them all to the meetings and many said they wanted to come, so we'll see. It is just so exciting to see all the people that want the truth so much. And everyone would take the magazines, they are all eager to have something to read. You could throw 100 - 200 magazines in a backpack and place them all in a day if you wanted. The problem is, their aren't enough magazines to do that, so you have to be a little stingy with them, which is sad. There are fishing boats that come in and then go out to sea for months, and the men aboard love to read the magazines. Marc was trying to get Justin & I to go on one and give them our magazines, but we didn't want to because we wanted to save our magazines for the door to door work to start studies. They are out of Teach books right now, so that is all we have to work with. Isn't that sad though? I felt really bad. We need people to help us, and literature!!!! Anyone? Anyone?

We stopped at a restaurant on the water where Marc & Buffy made a call on the owner, and also made plans for us to come back the next day for supper. There is a family visiting from Denmark for 2 months, and they were coming to our meeting in Oak Ridge for the brother to give the talk. So Marc & Buffy were taking them out afterwards. They had a spider monkey tied up there, and some alligators, and a parrot, in cages. We stopped at another little shack for lunch. I can't remember what the things we got to eat were called, because everything is spanish. But they were some sort of burrito, filled with beans, cheese, egg, and I think potatoes. Very yummy. They cost about 75 cents. Well, we had a fun filled day, and didn't get back to Marc & Buffy's until the sun was setting. It doesn't stay light here very late, in the winter it's dark by 5:30, and in the summer, 6:30.

 From the little island looking back at Marc & Buffy's house

 

 

 

 

 

 No, it's not Panama Jack, it's Roatan Justin

 

 

 

 

 A gringo's property.... nice!

 Midas had a day at the beach

 

At meeting on Sunday, we had a total of 17. One more than last time. So our numbers are going up. Justin & I went up to Oak Ridge early, to remind some of our calls about the meeting, but most of them were busy, or forgot. But all of them said they wanted to come next week, so we'll see....

We went to the little restaurant on the water that we had stopped at the day before. It was Marc, Buffy, Justin & I and the family from Denmark, Sorren, Ingrid & their daughter Anne. They really like it here and are already planning to come back, but it won't be until next year. We sat in a little gazebo out on the water. This was a local food shack, so it wasn't real big, or fancy, and the main seating area was filled with locals. But our spot was a little away from everyone else, and pretty cool. Sunday is their bbq day. You can choose pork, beef, or chicken, and your plate comes out filled to the edges with meat, potato salad, rice & beans, cole slaw and a tortilla. It was delicious!

So, that catches you up to today. I have a question to put out to the readers......... I keep getting hives. I've been getting them everyday for the past week. I have ruled out a food allergy, because I'm not eating the same things everyday, and it took a week and a half after I was here to start getting them. And hives from food allergies would start within hours. I don't think it's any soaps or detergents either, because I'm not using anything different than I use at home. I started looking on the net and saw that parasites can cause hives, and then we remembered that in Belize a call told us that they don't get sick in their stomach when they have parasites, they just get a rash. So, we thought that might be it, so Justin tried to go in a 'farmacia' to get medicine. We'll he communicated to the lady that I had hives & a parasite, but when we got home, we realized she had given me a cream? How is that going to help with a parasite? Well, Justin convinced me to put it on anyhow. But then I looked up the name of this cream on the internet. It turns out, it is for a parasite.... but it is a skin parasite! Justin got me medicine for scabies!! So, now I am scabies free. But I still have hives. Anyone have any ideas what might be wrong? By the way, I am taking a home remedy to get rid of a parasite, if that is what it is. Papaya seeds. Thanks to Sandy Cook, and Christopher & Sherrie.