The below is a letter from missionaries to Chilé, Dan & Elizabeth Thompson. Dan & Liz serve at Camp Lican Ray where the NTI missionary team is currently working. This is their report.

Dear everybody,

We welcomed the team on Sunday afternoon.  They arrived on a wet day but it sounds like after a few days of this kind of weather we should enjoy a few days of sun.  We’ll see, you never can tell in this part of the world .  After a tour of camp and some warm potato soup, we enjoyed some fellowship and then bed.

Yesterday, we didn’t start bright and early but the team still got lots done.  The main project for the team is to redo the floor in one of our largest cabins on camp.  This cabin is called Nazareth.  It’s divided into two parts.  One main room with cupboards to one side is used mostly as a children’s classroom and game room.  The cupboards house the camp blankets and pillows.  The rest of the cabin has two bedrooms (with capacity for 5 campers in total).  The floor is wood but because of poor ventilations it is rotting out.  It also is full of powder post beetles.  We had some major holes in it last year and it was making it dangerous to have the kids class in it.

So job number one was to move all the blankets, mattresses, pillows and miscellaneous items out of the cabin. Then the team started taking out the interior walls and cupboards.

They got a good fire going and were able to burn as they cut.  The Styrofoam ceiling was also removed and for now we will put up some OSB sheeting.  Down the road, the roof will need changed also and the sheeting can be reused then.

What we have in mind for the cabin is to move the bedroom part of the cabin to the other side of the building and make it one room instead of two.  The rest of the room will still be used for the classroom.  A double door entrance will be put in on the far end of the building facing the lake and the plan is to build a wood deck off that end.  This entrance faces what will be the new kid’s playground and playing field next to the lake.

One bit of bad news.  Danny went to the tool shed to grab the chainsaw to cut the floor out and it wasn’t there anymore.  Sometime during our stay in Temuco the chainsaw walked off.  We have total confidence in the lady who watched our house while we were gone but she only came once a day and all the lights were off in the house at night.  Someone probably noticed this and broke into the tool shed.  What is odd is that nothing else disappeared!  Danny will go today with the papers from the chainsaw and advise the police.  They have the Stihl brand of chainsaw here in Chile but not this model number so maybe that will make it easier to find.  We are thinking of putting the new donation money to good use and build a tool shed that is better equipped to withstand a break-in.  We’ll see if we have time while the team is here to do that.  Danny and I went into Villarrica yesterday and bought a chainsaw to replace the one stolen.  It wasn’t our’s or the camp’s but the mission’s so needed to be replaced.

Thank you for your prayers as the team continues to work here.  There is a great spirit and lots is getting done. They are loving the food that Hermana Ana is making and she is keeping my house and theirs spotless also.  She has been a huge blessing to me as I don’t have to worry about anything except taking care of the new little one and getting the kids through school in the morning.

We love you all and I will try to update with pictures and news every day.

Liz