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Hola amigos!

Its so wierd to see a computer, I forgot how to work this thing. I am rockin it here in Iquitos, Peru at the moment, and besides the hepatitis a b and c, the multiple cases of malaria that I contracted, the numerious intestinal worms, the diabeties,infected blowgun wounds, the monkey/parannah attacks, the mosquitos ripping us to shreads, the smallpox, sars, the cancer, ebola, the anthrax, scarlet fever, the west nile, madcow, black plague, whooping cough, typhiod, lyme disease, the dysentery, the eccoli that has engulfed my body, and the pirates, all is well. The trip is closing and we are in the process of our 4 day trek to american soil. Im using the computer in the hotel (hotel=$shower and beds indoors$=refreshing). The past month has been a challenge spiritually, physically, and mentally but an adventure as well. Our gigantic team of 32 flew in to Lima then Iquitos then from there took a 30 hour barge ride down the Amazon river deep into the jungle. We worked with a man named Jorge Montero (who is sitting at the computer next to me) who is basically the Paul of the Amazon jungle, and one of the coolest guys Ive ever met. He started his ministry here 17 years ago and has planted many churches in the villages along the river. All in all we traveled to 8 of those villages to encourage and build up the churches there: Maypuco, San Antonio, Esperanza, SaraMuro, Ollanta, San Juan, Nueva Union (which was the most primitive and unique of the villages, they had their own language, the women only wore red on top and black on bottom and they didnt have many rights compaired to the men), and San Jose. I got to meet many awesome people, play with some rad kids, and experience a few different cultures, ate a variety of amazonian foods: monkey brains, monkey, carachupa, crocodile, parannah, and maggots (the maggots werent intended they were in the monkey and the carachupa by mistake), spent my 4th of july vomitting and having constant diarrhea (probably because of the monkey and maggots I ate july 3rd), and spent my 17th birthday here, of course I swam across the river, got to go crocodile hunting at night with a peruvian ,named Ramone, who I could talk to very little because of the language barrier, in his small homemade canoe armed with a machette, a spear, and a stick (we didnt catch a crocodile but we did spear multiple fish, a few of which actually jumped in our canoe, and a bird), took multiple swims and boat rides in the river (during most boat rides we started sinking and had to bail water out and during one of the travels hit a hardcore amazon storm and almost sank to death), got to help some men build a hut, played multiple games of soccer with Peruvians (lost everytime except for once when I was on their team), watched many beautiful amazonian sunrises, sunsets, and star lit nights, and took a few jungle expeditions. All while serving God. Great things happened in his name. Thank you all for your prayers and support, and I honestly cannot wait to get home, and see all of you. I missed the heck out of you guys during this trip, one person particularly. Continue to pray for us as we travel home and for myself in general as I enter back into society. God bless you all, live it up and Ill see you in a few days(the 22nd), in which the party begins.     -Don Barr      ps: the lack of llamas here is lame                http://adventures.org/a/reports/r3re.asp?id=1133        the upside down question marks ¿¿¿ come standard on the keyboards here, you dont even have to push shift