Walk

Yesterday Liz and I went for our usual Friday afternoon walk at Green Pastures. We had a nice chat to Francisco and Leca who are the couple who take care of the place for us and we checked different things there with them. Once off on our walk we came immediately across a pair of Iguana lizards mating. We could tell by their size and colour that they were young. A little bit further on we came across a large wild tortoise native to our area. There are a lot of these at Green Pastures. Amongst the birds we saw and heard were a Smooth-billed Ani, a Picui Ground Dove, a White-tipped Dove, a Ferruginous Pigmy Owl, a Green-barred Woodpecker and a Common Tody-Flycatcher. The latter species sometimes come into our front room in Patos. We brought back from Green Pastures more that 10 green coconuts to drink and about 20 lemons to make squash with. The only negative thing on our walk were the mosquitoes which are out in their millions after the surprise rain earlier this month. We are used to mosquitoes but yesterday they were ridiculous! 

We will be taking the service at Green Pastures tonight and the Patos youth group will also be going to support us in the service. Please pray that God will richly bless the local church there.

I am thrilled to say that Márcio, a man from our church in Patos, has come out of hospital having recovered from Covid. He is much better and thanks everyone for their prayers.