Tuesday was our second work day. We continue to grow as a team. Our communication is getting better and we are getting to know each other better. All of our Spanish is getting better as well. I continue to enjoy my conversations with the Dominicans that hang around the church.
We had a missionary couple over for dinner tonight. It is such a treat getting to know the missionaries in their territory. These people are fun!
What we learned today:
1) Always have a plan B.
2) Mas Espanol
3) How to get water out of an underground cistern.
Now onto the photos:
This was what we saw in the morning. I am standing in the altar looking towards the door. On Monday we laid the cement runners which helped us keep the cement we poured level.
Aryelle trying to have a conversation with our new friend Louis (spelling?) We use a lot of hands while talking since we have to act out almost everything we are trying to say. I think we are entertaining to the Dominicans. Louis is 18 and is started the University in January. He is studying Engineering. He does attend this church and is so excited about the new, much bigger church. He keeps telling us he doesn't know much English, but since we have gotten here his English has already improved. He tells us that he learned English from an institute, which I think is a class you attend on your own time. He was so excited to have a photo of him up on this blog!
The men at work! They were moving back the sand pile. We are working in the middle of a road. The road is not paved, so we usually forget we are on a road until a car needs to pass. The truck that dumped off the sand decided it would be a good idea to put it right in the middle of the road!
I still can't get over the random chickens that walk around the streets. We have to make sure they don't get into the wet cement in the church like they did on Monday.
This is Fred & Wade on our first batch of cement. We have been trailering this cement mixer behind our bus. I need to take a photo of that, I have never seen a bus trailer anything before! Anyways to make the cement we us 1 90lb bag of cement and 21 scoops of rock and 42 scoops of sand... and then some random amount of water (Bruce knows). It is not hard work, but after doing it for a few hours your back and arms get tired. Again I would like to point out that Fred is throwing rock over a road into the mixer. This would not work so well in the U.S.
Working over a road. I hear the church will be getting stucco on the front someday soon. That will be exciting!
Bikes, cars, buses, people, chickens, etc... often go right in the middle of our work site. I guess that is what we get for working in the road.
We have gotten our teamwork down well. Fred, Barnie, & Brandon are splitting the 90lb cement bag in half so it is easier to carry into the mixer.
Pastor Wade and Bill are waiting for the cement to finish mixing so they can fill their wheelbarrows up. 1 batch of cement fills 4-5 wheel barrows. It is a much slower process than in the U.S. when we use the big cement trucks with troughs. They are quite clean in this photo so they must have not started with the cement yet. By the end of the day both men were covered in cement from head to toe.
This is the progress we made on day 2. A little more than half of the floor was filled. It is such a transformation from what we started with. I cannot wait to see the finished floor!
Well my camera died half way through the day so I didn't get many photos today. God has been so good to us. We are enjoying our time here and feel so blessed to be able to help out a church in need. All of us keep commenting how easy everything is going.
Tonight we had a missionary couple come over for dinner. They have a 3 yr old boy and an 8 month old girl (I think those are the ages). It was cute to see the little boy mix up his English and Spanish. He is much better at Spanish than I am!
Thank you for reading this.
Dios te bendiga!
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