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  1. December 4, 2009

    Scorpion under my pillow

    That is a rather unusual sounding exclamation, but it is exactly what happened to one of our workers here in YWAM Puerto Madryn. Actually, finding a scorpion at all is rather uncommon here, so when he found one underneath his pillow we…

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  2. November 30, 2009

    Farewell to Palma Real

    Today we said goodbye to a team of four workers from our YWAM base. They are heading into the jungle in the south of Peru for six months, to relieve a missionary couple there who have not had a rest for over five years. Our team will also…

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  3. November 27, 2009

    Pedro and Yanina’s Wedding

    A couple from Puerto Madryn had become good friends of ours, and through us they became good friends of many in YWAM Puerto Madryn. As a result, when they decided to get married they wanted to get married here on our YWAM base. So we…

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  4. November 20, 2009

    A Day of Duties

    Every day everybody on the YWAM base heads out to do some work around the place to help maintain the place. What follows are some photos of some of the things that we have been up to lately…

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  5. November 16, 2009

    Staff Meeting

    On the good days, this is the way that we all get together for our staff meetings.

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  6. November 16, 2009

    Felling Trees

    Over the years that we have been in Puerto Madryn, some of the trees have not been able to survive the harsh conditions. Not only is there little water, lots of wind, and harsh winters, but there are also a lot of nasty borer-type bugs…

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  7. November 13, 2009

    Not Snow, Not Sleet, Not Hail

    It was something in between all of these when it fell. A storm cloud came over and dropped something like soft hail, or firm snow, or dry sleet, or… well, something that wasn’t quite rain either. So here are the photos to explain it.

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  8. October 13, 2009

    Crash, Bang, Down and Out!

    It was almost 1.30am in the morning and I was still on my last processes of getting to bed and asleep when there was an almighty crash. At first I did not react to it as it was likely something falling out of a cupboard or something like…

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  9. August 4, 2009

    Back to Base – Corrientes

    It was a long-standing promise that I had made to my friends that one day I would return to my old original YWAM base in the north of Argentina. Even though it was my first contact with YWAM and a place where I still have many friends,…

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  10. July 28, 2009

    Getting Higher on Internet

    To get internet out where we are, we needed to set up a wifi connection between us and town that allowed us to access a broadband internet connection there. This was first done with a 6m pole that we mounted at both ends of the connection.…

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