Finally Moving! Finally Moving! Greetings from Bolivia. We were at the school outside of Guayaramerin Bolivia for about three weeks. This is why you have not heard from us for a while. The internet at the school is very slow and poor, so it makes communicating more difficult. The other reason, as you have seen in our other emails, is that we have been very busy. I made a second flight for the TV network with the same engineers as before. This time one of our stops was the city of Riberalta. There I met the owner of this C-47. He offered to trade the C-47 for the Mooney. I knew him from when I had been flying out of Riberalta in 2009 and 2010. I learned that he has a flight school at the airport in Riberalta. The city of Riberalta is a small city half an hour from the school and about an hour from Guayarmerin. There are only two airline flights a day into Riberalta and the weather is much better than in Santa Cruz for flight training. Often the guys doing flight training in Santa Cruz go to the airport only to find that the wind is too strong for them to fly. Thirth trips to town might get them ten hours flying time. I thought that half an hour driving through the country to go to a flight school to get a Bolivian pilot's license would be much better than driving in an hour and half of stop and go traffic in the city. The airport in Santa Cruz is so busy that you sometimes spend half an hour waiting in line for fuel, and then you spend half an hour waiting to take off at the end of the runway. This is the Rio Yata. We crossed it heading to Riberalta. The school is located a few kilometers from this river. This is a picture of the Rio Yata about 100 miles south of the school. This is what it looks like as you near Riberalta. Trees as far as you can see. After getting back from Riberalta Jeff Sutton asked me if I could do some work on his airplane, which was at the airport. I needed to fuel the Mooney anyways, so it was an excuse to fly the Mooney from the property to the airport to work on his plane, and avoid driving in the city traffic. His plane is the twin engine plane in this picture. It is an Aerostar, a Piper Aerostar to be exact, not to be confused with a Ford Aerostar. I did an oil change on his plane, but did not have time to fix some small things that I noticed, nor look at a few other things he wanted me to look at. Helen, Timothy, and James came with me to work on Jeff's plane. Timothy strapped in the pilot's seat. To head back to the TV station we had to wait to back taxi behind two Boeing 737's, one of which is outside the little window. During this time we were getting very worn out. Also, at the same, time all the dogs on the TV station campus were exposed to rabies. All the dogs on the campus, except one, were put down even if they were vaccinated. That is a precaution that is done due to the deadly nature of Rabies because the vaccine is not always effective. Our dog had not been vaccinated yet to Rabies, so she had to be put down before she became contagious. Herman said he was available to fly, so we decided to go somewhere else, take a break and let things blow over. Here is our stuff packed and ready to go into the Mooney. We flew the Mooney over to the airport to finish the few things on Jeff's airplane. We finished working on Jeff's plane. We loaded and fueled both planes. We left the Mooney fueled on the ramp for Herman. We got in Jeff's plane and went with him to Guayaramerin. The view out of Jeff's plane on the way to Guayaramerin. The best way for me to take a break was to be left were there were no airplanes. This is where we stayed at the school temporarily. Ironically this was where Helen lived when I first met Helen in 2009. This is where we were offered to stay last year when we first started making plans to move. This is the old church at the school. It is a roof with a floor and three half walls. It would require some improvement to work as a house, but this is what our house was like in Santa Cruz when we moved in. Timothy is learning to be a country boy. This is where the laundry is washed. The first thing Timothy did was fall in the water, but his life jacket worked and we pulled him out. Since then his sense of balance and respect for water has improved. Soon after arriving, two lambs were born. Timothy just had to climb in and meet them. I took the boys for a walk to let Helen take a nap. That dog is the mother of our dog. Testing the inflatable boat that I flew to the school a few years ago. It needs some patches due to rats chewing holes in to compartments, but it is fixable and we can buy the materials on the internet. This boat is for medical missionary work on the rivers near the school, or not so near the school. It is very transportable. Here is a change of scenery for the airplane mechanic, an electronic fuel injected outboard boat motor. This is the motor for the inflatable boat. We plan on using this to get to remote places near rivers where there is no airstrip. You can put the boat in the airplane and fly to the nearest airstrip and then take the boat out of the airplane. I changed the oil and cleaned the filters on the motor. The motor had been stored in a way that the cylinders had filled with oil. I took the spark plugs out and pulled the motor through a couple times to clear the oil out of the cylinders. Then I put the engine on the boat and the motor ran fine. The oil in the cylinders kept the insides of the engine from rusting while it was stored. This is the airstrip that is under construction at the school. It still needs some work, but it is coming along. The picture does not show how rough the far end is. I think that in an emergency an empty Cessna 182 could land and take off on it, but it would be difficult due to obstacles not in the picture. This is what it looks like beside the airstrip where we plan on building a house and a hangar. This is the building methods that we plan to use to build a house for the aviation project at the school. The estimated cost for the structure is about $5,500. That includes floor, walls, and roof. This is the new boy's dormitory that is being built. Our house will also be made of concrete block, made right there at the school. The estimated cost for a cement floor and block for walls for the house  aviation house is about $3,000. This is the school's block machine that they use to make concrete blocks. The materials for each block costs $1 US. This includes fuel to run the machine, materials, and the transportation of the materials. For sale externally, the blocks are sold for more so they can make a profit. The school has a backhoe for the heavy work. This is the construction method used in the roof of the new church at the school. They plan to use the same materials  to build the roof of the new boys dormitory. We hope to build the roof of the aviation project house with the same method. The expected cost for the roof of the house will be about $2,500. This is where it gets interesting. The steel and the better quality sheets of roofing are not locally available. The school is planning on sending it's truck to Santa Cruz in one week to take a group of students to help with construction at the TV station in Santa Cruz for two weeks. They then plan on buying the roofing materials in Santa Cruz and taking it back with them to the school with the truck. We hope to buy roofing materials as well, so that it can be sent on the truck, but don't have enough funds. By taking advantage of this opportunity we can cut down the overall cost of the roof. Please pray with us that God provides money in the next week and a half for the roofing materials. We are planning on sending our things with the truck, and that will complete our move to Guayara.  I want to thank every one who supports us with prayers and financially. This is made possible by people like you. Thank you for being a blessing to the people here. God bless, Steven, Helen, Timothy, and James Wilson We are volunteer missionaries entirely funded by donations. 100% of your donations go directly to us and our project in Bolivia. If you'd like to be a part, we accept tax-deductible donations through Gospel Ministries International, Inc. Donate via: 1.  PayPal  (timt@gospelministry.org) 2.  Check:  P.O. Box 506, Collegedale, TN 37315 With either method, please include a note stating:  "Bolivia Aviation Services - Wilson" Thanks for your support!