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Another Month Gone By
So I’m not sure if anyone has been visiting this site, but just in case they are I thought I would put another post up, since it’s been about a month since the last one.
Liz and I had the opportunity to meet with the Regional Director for Southern Africa at MAF lasat month and it was a very encouraging meeting. We have been blessed several times by encouragment from people at MAF or friends and family just when we started feeling like we would never progress through this long process. We talked to Fran (South Africa RD) primarily about how we could be used in Lesotho and what life there is like. There is certainly a great need for people there and administrative/management people especially. We still don’t know any more specifically where we will end up but it was fun to learn a little more about one of the possibilities.
The other major event of the past month was that I (Tim) fulfilled a longtime dream which was to go through a Wilderness First Responder course and get my WFR certification. I took the class at Boise State University. The class was made up of 9, 10 hour days and homework every night. It covered everything from how to diagnose illnesses in the backcountry to how to build a traction splint for a broken femur. We did simulations almost every day where we took turns being the patients (theater blood and everything) or the primary WFR. It was exhausting but everyone in the class passed. Most needed the certification for camps or to be river guides. me and two other people were just doing it for the experience and the knowledge.
Not much else to say about the past month. we are spending time working on house projects and updating our mailing list. Mostly these things help us to keep our mind off of the fact that we still don’t know where we are going, but we should know before to long. In the meantime keep us and our sanity in your prayers. As soon as we get our mailing list finished we will send out a letter explaining what we will be doing and what steps lay before us on our journey.
Tim, Liz and Jacob Schandorff