A Few Good Laughs

We have been praying for a four door, double cab pickup truck for quite some time now. It is a miracle that our black truck ("the limousine") is still even running. The electrical system caught on fire several years ago and was totally replaced. The ignition isn't even on the steering column anymore - it is on the dashboard! So, anyway, I was thrilled when I came out of school this week to head towards the house for lunch and saw that the Lord had sent us our four door pickup truck!

Oops - OK, so somebody just slightly misplaced the doors!

OK, so we bought two doors at a junk yard to replace the truck doors which no longer neither shut completely nor open completely! When I told Dad and Mom that we had bought two doors for the truck, Dad asked: "So, do they match?" I laughed out loud and said: "Of course not!" I mean, really, my bathroom towels don't match, my kitchen plates don't match, our kids don't even match (we have nearly every skin tone represented in the family) why would our truck doors match! Hey, at least the doors are gray and the truck is black - that's pretty close, isn't it?!

Our main adventure this week (besides trying to get three vehicles in tip-top shape for the upcoming crusade), was butchering one of our calves. We raise cows for their milk and also for their meat because then we know the quality of the meat and what the animal has been fed. While we take the steer to the local butcher to be butchered, we take it upon ourselves to actually cut up the meat into the different kinds of cuts. If we leave the meat at the butcher's and have him do the cutting, it is very possible that we would not get the meat from our steer back, but the meat from some skinnier, lower quality animal. So, Victor had a big wooden butcher table made and part of the staff spent two whole days cutting up and storing the meat.

Some of the meat hanging in the warehouse waiting to be cut up.

Victor, Rosa (our cook) and several other staff and volunteers cutting up the meat.


Watch out for Rosa!

You can add this to your list of unique uses for duct tape - taping up cuts from the butcher knives while cutting up the steer's meat!

Some cuts were worse than others!
JUST KIDDING!
After taking the pictures of everybody else's cuts and their duct-taped wounds, Jhon had the idea of bandaging up a finger to make it look like he had cut it off!

Victor and Rosa working together. It is always fun to watch the two of them together because Rosa is more like Victor's mother than his own biological mother! They love and respect each other so much!

"For the joy of the LORD is your strength."
Nehemiah 8:10