Prayer Warriors, With just a few weeks left in Peru, I thought I'd send you this journal entry with a few top-10 lists. --Jonathan

 Life in the jungle is: sleeping under mosquito nets, sitting on the side of the boat you're driving all day long under the scorching sun, eating parts of animals that you didn't even know existed, struggling to communicate in a tribal tongue that is only spoken by a couple of thousand people in the whole world, bathing in water so dirty that it's surprising that you actually feel clean afterwards, giving up your fight against the mosquito's and cockroaches and bugs because there's just too many of em', and going to sleep at sunset while waking up at first light.

  It's a life unlike any I had previously known. While cliché to say, it is seriously nothing less than an entirely different world. The culture, world view, dialect, and way of life are much more similar to that of what I read in the Bible than to what I live at home. It's the unknown, wild, adventure I thought it would be, and, at the same time, it's laid-back and chilled-out and tranquil and filled with so much downtime that the days are often drawn-out and boring.

  My experience has been coated with memorable moments that I will truly cherish. Out of those moments, though, there are certainly some things that stand out more than others as aspects that I have truly delighted in, while, conversely, there are other characteristics of this life, for which, I will not be found longing once I'm back home. So, with that said, here are a few lists that will probably not make the Tonight Show.

Top 10 Things I WILL Miss from the Jungle:

10: Bathing, Swimming, Skipping Rocks in the River

9: Jungle Fruit

8: The Beauty and Serenity of the Wild Jungle (countless stars, picturesque sunsets, gorgeous parrots.)

7: The Adventure of it all

6: Times of Solitude to Pray, Read and Write

5: Driving the Boat

4: Proclaiming the Gospel and Making Disciples along side of the Xtreme Team

3: My Indigenous Friends/Family, and just being able to Share our Lives with them (working, swapping stories around the fire, playing soccer, fishing with spears, hunting with arrows.)

2: Worshipping with the Hut Churches

1: Witnessing the Lord Pursue His Bride to the Ends of the Earth and then Receive Glory from the Previously Unreached!

Top 10 Things I will NOT Miss from the Jungle:

10: Mosquitoes

9: Rice and Tuna

8: Sleeping on the Ground

7: Smoke in my Eyes while Building a Fire

6: Traveling Upriver against a Strong Current during the Dry Season

5: Mosquitoes

4: Early-Morning Roosters

3: Hauling Wood through Muddy Trails

2: The Absence of a Toilet

1: Mosquitoes