And these signs will follow those who believe: In my name: (Mark 16: 17-18)
(1) cast out demons;
(2) speak new languages;
(3) they will pick up serpents,
(4) and if they drink anything deadly, it will not harm them;
(5) they will lay hands on the sick, and they will be healed.
From the above list of five gifts, one gift leads to another; and suddenly you find yourself exercising all five. Or this or that gift is manifested according to the mission entrusted to you for believing.
In what you have read so far you have seen how the first gift works, and if you had to document a year of activities based on the gift of 'casting out demons', you would have 365 cases and various demons cast out: from the environment, home, neighbor ... mind, body, spirit, character, temperament, emotion or feeling of the heart ...
Bierny had concluded an itinerary mission in the center of Peru, between Huancayo, Jauja, La Oroya ... (it can be discussed at another time, there were 12 towns visited, months of stay and hundreds of cases ...)
The chosen place is now Huaquillas (Ecuador). And to get there, you must travel far north, passing through Piura and Tumbes.
-Mister. Allow me to go to Tumbes ...
"Go to the Sierra de Piura!" (to the east ... at an altitude area, between 2,500 m.a.s.l.)
I checked the pockets, I had a 5 dollar bill.
—Aló Pastor 'P' tell me the place of his mission in the mountains…
—Follow the road between Piura and Canchaque. Get down halfway and voila. The city of Piura is located on the coast and the town of Canchaque in the Sierra de Piura.
I got on the first transport that got to where I was. The ticket was cost for 3.5 dollars.
Halfway there was no place of reference. So complete the journey. In Canchaque, a few inquiries about needs and there were no answers. Well, although Canchaque is located in the Sierra de Piura, it was not the place of the mission. So you have to go back and get off in the middle of the road.
"Can I pay 1.5 dollars to stay in the middle of the Canchaque and Piura trip?" "I consulted the collector of the means of transport."
-Accepted!
The trip between these two locations takes two and a half hours, or 150 minutes. He had only an hour, to certainly know where to get off? Who to follow? What to look for? In order to reach the designated place: 'to the Sierra de Piura'.
There were no empty seats available, so since the trip was short, I stood in the middle of the bus and held onto the top rail with one hand to avoid falling. I looked at the comfortably seated passengers. And I was struck by two women talking 'in the background', aloud on the interprovincial bus, saying:
-Oh! Manita, isn't this the bus that turned over the other time?
-Yes! There you have the traces of the repairs made.
Given their unusual dialogue, I approached them and asked them, "after greeting them," about the place I was going to.
-We do not know.
-Thanks!
In the northern custom: asking questions, they breed new questions; and if the questioner is a stranger: he is a reference to have the news of the headlines of the day. And the inquiries begin:
"Look, good man, aren't you going to this other place?" Said one of the passengers, sitting in the aisle seat.
"No, 'mija', the gentleman goes to such a place." Corrected the other.
-Thanks! I'll keep that in mind. "I said this and returned to my central area, waiting for further indications.
It had already been 20 minutes of travel. And the passengers: they again make signs with their hands, indicating that they have more data. I got closer. Y:
"See, the young man, over there, the one with the backpack?"
-Yes.
"Well, that young man, he goes to the place where you go." Go: 'ask him if he wants to take you'. Well, he goes down in the middle of the road and has a means of transport to the Sierra de Piura.
—Thank you! I'll ask you:
"Excuse me, do you know how to get to this place in the mountains?"
"Actually, I go one town first." The cost to take it to that place and you can continue advancing on your own is: $ 15.
"I understand, excuse me ... I don't have that amount, although I urgently need to go."
There are 20 minutes to go halfway. And I already knew where the mission site was and had a high price for someone who could get me there. So I asked the Guide of our way for support.
—Sir, I have decided to go down and continue the journey: Will you do your bidding !?
It was a long meditation, a cry for providential support and inner prayer.
Suddenly very close to the point of descent.
The two passengers made signs, gestures and gestures to me and shouted:
"Hey, it's your turn to go down, tell the young man to take you to the place. What a man!"
I shrugged and keep waiting.
"Hey, come on, let's get down, here it is." I will take it as agreed.
"But I don't have that kind of money."
"Anyway, let's go down."
We walk, several streets, the town is called: Serran. Then we arrived at a garage and he took out a van motorbike, which is a light vehicle with three tires: one front and two rear, on the two tires a trailer-type box, to carry 1,000 kilograms of weight.
"I am going to see a metal door that I was commissioned to collect, if it is available, we will take it with us, otherwise we will continue the journey."
Nothing. The two of them continued, towards the mountains, the way back was of herrada, a natural path, partly covered by layers of gravel or small stones that affirm the path, as it progresses, dust paths attached to the local crops, then enter winding roads made in empty or semi-dry rivers by the daily traffic of animals, cars, carts pulled by mares, horses or donkeys. It was an endless two hours of travel.
When you are a passenger in the hopper, you do not stop jumping and rearranging yourself, it is almost painful, exhausting, you must be alert to hold on well, otherwise you would shoot out and fall on the road.