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Where's The Saw?

My friend Nate wrote the other day asking if I'd help some Waorani get their chainsaw from the repair shop, and help them with the bill. I was happy to help, but wasn't sure if my spanish was up to it. Moises didn't show up on Tuesday like I thought he would. He did show up on Wednesday. I had a couple other errands to combine with the trip, one of them returning eighteen bags of cement to Comercial Castro down in Puyo. That is unheard of, because generally you can't return anything in this country. So anyway, we got down the the Stihl place only to find out that Reynaldo, a Colombian missionary working the the Waorani had already paid for it and picked it up. I talked with Reynaldo later, and found out that he was happy to do that. I showed Moises and his friends a couple of photos of Nate and me that I had from a visit this summer. Then I had a photo taken of the four of us to send to Nate. Moises is on the left. I know Nate and Rachelle really miss their Waorani friends. Rachelle wrote back:

"It is always sooo good to see a picture of the waorani. Moises is turning into quite the young man. He was married two days before we left tribe the last time. It was really fun to be a part of that. I think he has a baby by now. I remember when he was quite the rascal and was ALWAYS getting into trouble when he was little."

Rachelle's health has been so poor for the past three years that they have been unable to return to Ecuador, and their ministry to the Waorani.