Early this morning, we were greeted by the sound of rain. The rain was good in that, it cooled things off a bit (only the mid to upper 80's and extremely humid vs 90s and humid), but it did slow us down a little. There is a little bridge-less river that we have to cross on the way the the school every day. With the rain, we had to wait to make sure it would be crossable.
But an hour later, we were on our way through the sugar cain fields and out the the school in Caraballo. Today, the rain shifted our jobs, and prevented us from pouring any more concrete. We still got to beat on concrete with sledgehammers, move rubble, and also level a few places where we are going to pour concrete floors either this week or next.
Also one team from our group worked with Jesse (an awesome missionary with Kid's Alive) to sort clothing bags for students. The bags are made up of donated clothes and personal items for the students, but also for their families too. Each of the 200 students will get one on friday.
Throughout the day it rained on us periodically, but we still were able to get much work done.
Once again, lunch time was amazing, as we got to play with so many kids. One highlight of lunch today, was that our students taught the kids from the school a new group game. It was awesome to see them all play together!
Tonight we had three special treats: 1. Jesse the missionary shared about her life, and what she does here.
2. We had fried plantains for dinner. 3. We final changed our money, and so we went across the street and bought ice cream!!! it was awesome.
Tonight we talked about Luke 15 in our group time. God is really teaching us a lot about following him, and about living to bless others.
As I am writing this it is raining. Our hope is that it will stop soon, so work tomorrow can continue without increased challenges.
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It sounds like God is using you all in amazing ways! What a blessing and a privilege to be used by God in this way! Praying for you all. ~ Valerie Richter
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