¿where am i?

okay, i am terribly sorry about the lack of updates... my life has been crazy and the internet has been slow... i mean SLOW!! i woke up early this morning to try a beat the rest of the pueblo to the internet place so that i could possibly get some things accomplished. it looks like my plan worked as i've been able to put some pictures on facebook and write this blog entry. check out the pictures: http://olemiss.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2080615&l=8b4dc&id=6518921

now, for what i've been up to...
i finally got the medical transfer so that i will be based in the capitol city of Lima, but almost as soon as i received the transfer my new boss asked me to go to the mountains for 8 weeks! i'm talking i barely had my things moved from the jungle and i was repacking and heading 12,000 ft. above sea level! now, before ya'll get all worried that i can't handle all these changes... i can! i'm in Lampa, Peru now and doing good. the mountains are drastically different from the jungle. for one thing the people here understand the concept of boiling water for sanitation...besides the fact that i can find bottled water everywhere i go. i am in a small, small town (pueblo) now, but it has everything i need. it is not like traveling to the communities where we have to bring everything we need.

so what exactly am i doing here? i am now on the REAP South team and the strategy of our team is to have churches in the U.S. adopt villages in the Southern half of Peru. during the summer college students come from the U.S. to assist the churches in their adopted villages. i am serving on one of these "summer missionary" teams. myself, brad (another journeyman) , and a girl named beth (from georgia and the church that has adopted Lampa) will be here at least until the end of June.(beth leaves at the end of june) i may or may not stay through the end of July.

our objective is to start small Bible study groups here in Lampa (the pueblo i'm staying in) and the surrounding small villages. the villages are straight out of some 1800s book or something. mud houses with thatch rooves and sheep, llamas, and alpacas running around in the fields. it is all so beautiful and primative.

please pray for us as the work here is slow. there are about 3 very promising Christian men here in Lampa but they all have busy schedules and it is hard to get them together in order to train them. also people are very willing for us to work with the children out in the villages, but it is very difficult to work with the adults. they are either in their fields and very busy or just not interested and keep asking us to work with and bring stuff to their children. it can be very frustrating at times. so please pray!

again, i will be based in Lima for the remainder of my time in Peru, but i will continue to travel to the mountains when there is a need. while i'm in Lima i will be working with our translator ministry discipling girls my age in both spanish and english.

thank you all for your prayers. don't forget to look at my pictures. again i'm sorry for the delay. email me with any questions and i will do my best to write you back!! laneyboggs7@yahoo.com.

i love ya'll!!!!