Jungle Dweller Dave

Our dear friend Dave (center) is leaving tomorrow for the Peruvian jungle. He'll be serving as a missionary with Pioneers, making contact with unreached people groups. He's already told us some crazy stories about preparing to go to the Amazon, including seminars on how to avoid poisonous darts from the locals and how to fight anacondas in the river. Um, yikes.

Notice Aaron's "bunny ears" arm being jerked away from Jennifer's head by his fiance, Becky. You go girl! Carter is on the right, posing briefly between witticisms.

One of my first memories about Dave included me freaking out about a 5'4" snake right by Nathan's front door on my "meet the parents" visit to Atlanta. [Background: Dave was living with Nathan in our house before he was summarily kicked out by me, the new bride. However, we still call the extra bedroom "Dave's room."] It turns out Dave had killed the giant snake in the backyard with a shovel and strategically placed it under his truck to freak us out. After a few laughs (nervous laughter by me), Dave skinned it, chopped it up, fried it in a pan, and ATE IT! Dave was made by God to do missionary work like this.