CAP had a volunteer team of four coming in right before the incident in Akot took place. Me and CAP were suppose to work in the cattle camps to spend the night there with the people as they teach them the word of God and the prevention of Aids. But at that time it was not the best time to go to a cattle camp in Akot. So we came up with the idea to take the four of them to a cattle camp around Rumbek or farther from Akot.
Now let me tell you that by this time the volunteers where coming in three days. So we meet with our pastors of Abinajok on one day to find if there is a cattle camp we can go to and if they would be willing to take us and translate for us. They said “yes there ar some just here” and pointed in eastern direction towards Akot, where currently we were trying to avoid going down, you know with gun battles and pointless killing of men are. But we really wanted to find a cattle camp. So then the next day we went trucking in the bush looking for a cattle camp.
I had so much fun, just the idea of looking for a group of people in the deep bush of Sudan, just to tell them how to prevent Aids and the word of God. It really drives me!
So we are in the land cruiser going through a path that is probably for walking. We drove for a long time it seemed like because I could only go just below 20km/hr from how bad the road was and I was not looking to pop a tire out there in the middle of nowhere. Then finally we made it to this huge land of cattle camp surrounded by palm trees it was almost surreal like an oasis. But there was no cattle and very little people!
We were highly disappointed because the cattle camp was way to far for such a small group of people. But the day was not a total waste because We got to share the word of God with them and I got drink some of that delicious cow milk and urine mmmm so good! And when we headed back we took another way out with a way better road. A path for vehicle and the path lead straight back to the road and on this path we found many cattle camps but all of them were empty!
We got to the road and out of the bush and we now had many cattle camps in are toolbox for future projects, but all of them were empty and we needed a cattle camp Now!
When we got back home we were beat and tired from that all day journey of unsuccessfulness. We started in the morning and came home around 3pm. We all talked about what we should do and Andres mentioned the Cattle Camps up north from us. We thought yeah we know those and they aren’t far from are home either! So right then we hopped back in the cruiser and went down the road heading north.
As we drove we notice that the road has totally been redone and widen. The area looks so different and we see no cattle camps in sight.
We kept passing buy these huge forest fires and all the birds and animals would be in the road as if their sadly watching their homes burn.
Anyway we drive so long until we hit a roadblock and we decide to turn around. As I turn the truck around we are stopped by a drunk soldier and other people come running to the car. The drunk man comes to the car very angry and drunk! He talks in Arabic to me I think and I say “Arabic maafi” Which is “I don’t speak Arabic” in Arabic. Other boys came to the truck looking in the windows at the white chicks I just brought them.
So I am arguing with this drunk guy “Dude I can’t understand you and Arabic maafi!” Whitney is talking to Dinka boys and asking if there is a cattle camp around. Jennifer begins to feed the group of Dinka guys some tho (fruit seeds from a tree, the Dinka suck on them, they are sour). The Dinka guys start to fight over the tho Jennifer gave them!
Then the drunk reaches in my window and unlocks the back seat and tries to get in. The drunk guy and a small kid with a Ak47 tries to get in! I quickly reach back and close the door and tell them to “A! Yo! Naw homie!” Then we quickly drive off before something jumps off bad. We head off back home with no cattle camps found, the are lost!
We have no idea what to do with the volunteer team coming!
So we spent that whole day searching for a cattle camp for these men but did not find one. So we were all thinking, OK God what are you doing? So Whitney and Jennifer felt maybe God is wanting us to put are attention to has happen in Akot, so they came up with the plan to go to Akot and help with the food distribution.
Really we had no choice but this. So we all kinda knew this must be God pushing us to His direction.
Thank you my God!
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