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Tuesday, August 29th--Continued

- They pulled leaves off of plants to make headbands for us...
...opened achote seed-pods for the red dye they used to paint dots on our cheeks ...
...took more vegetation to carve darts, and chopped at another plant to get a long thin “pipe-cleaner” to dislodge a dart stuck in the 3 meter long blowgun (which we got to use! I hit the tree, but not the banana!)
- They have fish ponds to raise fish for food. - It was very hot and humid. Our faces just sweat, and we moved slowly. The sun baked. We fried our faces. - Rachel Saint and Elizabeth Elliot moved to this village of Tiweno 1 - 1½ years after the spearings to start translating the Bible from Spanish into Waorani. Their little tin-roofed house still stands near the airstrip. - Great time! We came back excited and kept remembering more things to tell the others.
Meanwhile, the others were busy back in Shell – Dad working on the phone system and Mom and Maren in the 2^nd and 3^rd grade classroom. After eating a picnic meal together in the Waorani shelter near the guesthouse, we all went back and worked until mid-afternoon. Elsa scrubbed filthy desks that had been stored in the attic.
I ironed curtains. Mom and Maren prepared for subbing the first morning of school.