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Service visit: Trent and Mark in Cusco and Lucre.

March 31, 2017

Friday-Sunday, March 10-12.

Maria visited Trent, in Cusco, and Mark, in the small village of Lucre outside of Cusco, where the rest of the group had been during our week of traveling through the Sacred Valley toward Machu Picchu.  She will post a description of the visit later, but for now, here are the pictures.  Because Maria was ill during part of the trip (SST leaders are also afflicted at times), she was not able to get pictures from her visit with Trent; he graciously supplied the photos shown here.

[Doug and Maria returned from their last service visit today.  Tomorrow and Sunday the last two service blogs will be posted for Meghan, Dusti, Lauren, Tyler and Gabby.]

Lunch at home with host parents Rolando and Francisca.
The family’s workshop on the first floor of their home.
Mom, dad, and a family friend make furniture to order.
The desk where Trent does his work for World Vision.
The stacks of forms each contain letters from people sponsoring a child living in the Cusco region.
Trent’s job is to translate the sponsor letters into Spanish.
You’re not authentically Andean if you haven’t peeled potatoes.
Lunch with the family (L to R): Danitza, mom Erica, dad Betel, Milady, Mark, and Victoria.
Mark with the family’s grandfather, who is the aquaculture expert.
Time to catch supper.
Wash day. At right is the family’s home.
Catching lunch.
Cleaning the catch.
Below is their village, Lucre.