Sights, Sounds and
Smells of a Village Ministry Center
Part 3: Smells
San Vicente, the sprawling village of 3000... we’ve been
working here for over a decade... quite interesting being here, your senses...
uniquely filled...
Smells: to be fair, there is nothing as wonderful as Carne
Asada meat over mesquite coals... definitely the yuck of pit toilets and
doggie-stuff everywhere (3/4 of the homes only have a pit latrine)... smoke
from the trash/garbage fires (municipal trash pickup isn’t dependable),
everyone has a ‘burning can’, which smolders for hours (we regularly have to
close all the windows in the middle of the night, regardless of the heat)... a
rural village, walking by pig wallows and sheep stalls... with all the people
draining water into the street, stagnant, yucky water filled with old soap and
who-knows-what... walking by the houses, the ‘madre de la casa’ cooking dinner
(usually something to smile about)... walking by the numerous food ‘puestos’
along the Highway, all cooking something (but we don’t eat there, famous for
giving people severe ‘ED’, requires 3 days of Oral Rehydration and Pepto,
possibly antibiotics... yeah, even the locals... how do these places stay
open???)... oh, did you know that blowing dust has a smell?...
Hey, many of you have gone on mission outreaches to other
places in the world... what say you? Email us!
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