On the ride home I asked: “What should I blog about today?”. One of the youth said “talk about the little boy” another said “how about this ride home” and then someone else said “why don’t you just tell them what we did today”. I said “Yeah, and the title could be ‘Concrete is hard’” We all laughed. Concrete IS hard.
Today was a good day, an exhausting day to be sure. One of the wonderful things that were expressed today was that all of our youth would like to get a job in management. I think this trip has really shown us the value of physical labor. We laid a floor in a church today. They have been waiting for three years for a church. Several groups have been through and in three weeks they now have the walls, the roof and a beautiful concrete floor. Our team helped.
The good news is that for most of the day we actually had a mixer! The groups only had to shovel the sand and gravel together and then into the mixer. Still hard work, but easier that doing the WHOLE thing by hand. Our group also moved rocks, lots and lots of rocks. One of our people moved a wheelbarrow three times their body weight. Impressive.
I remain impressed by our group. Their heard work, their cheerful spirit, all of it is just impressive. I remain in awe of the wonderful people here and their dedication. I reflect that I am here from such a short time. Soon I will go home to an abundance of choices. I will go back to my home with air conditioner, clean water and any food I can imagine I can get. Here, they often skip lunch; they’re not used to eating. They work with what ever is at hand. They are happy and they are generous with all that they have welcoming us. I want to copy their life, their joyful abandon. Now that would be hard. Even harder than concrete.
Thank you for praying for us!
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