Ok, so today, Wednesday was a little rough. The country here is so beautiful. There are lovely mountain ranges and you can see the ocean from where we are staying. Pastor Pedro is doing all he can to make our experience positive. Breakfast was delicious, boiled eggs, ham, cheese, bread and fresh pineapple. Then off to Batay 7 for a day of fun. We poured a concrete roof. This of course would not take 20 people if you had all the mixers and things from home. No, this was digging sand and putting it in a bucket and then getting a bucket brigade going to get the sand up to the roof, then another for the water and then lots of lifting bags of cement...94 lbs! After 5 hours, Pastor Pedro said that the hard day would be tomorrow and we stopped for the day. We returned back to our home to discover the power was out. This happens a lot here, I was told. Folks don´t pay their electric bill and the government can´t turn off individual homes so they turn off the power between 10ish and 8ish. We can wash our hands, but a shower isn´t really happening.
Even though I´m blogging on Thursday ' I´ll stop the story there and pick up the next day....
By the way several people remarked on what a fabulous group we have and how hard everyone is working. Our group is amazing and I feel truly blessed to be a part of them. Please continue to pray for us.
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