PLEASE PRAY FOR US AND OUR EQUIPMENT!
We arose at 5:30 a.m., ate breakfast, and immediately broke into different work teams. The team pictured continued to excavate baroche (see yesterday's post to learn about it). These children came to visit and stayed for over an hour, during which we sang songs with them as we worked. Remember that this pile of material is mined stone!
On the walk back, we encountered a family from another village that is making bricks. The chief ordered eight villages to make 10,000 bricks each for the orphanage. In the background is a woman getting water to mix with clay to make bricks; hauling water is considered women's work here.
Here is a great photo of the orphanage building, awaiting lentels (concrete blocks over windows), after which final bricks can be put on, and then the roof can be started. A specific sand is required for making the lentels, located 1 hour away by vehicle, so it takes 3 hours to complete one run.
PLEASE PRAY FOR US AND OUR EQUIPMENT! After the first sand run, the trailer axles were binding and the wheels were unsteady. That team stopped to repair the trailer at camp. They performed a 20-Year service and replaced some of the wheel studs (which attach the wheel to the brake drum) with larger studs. The Landy's gear box is still broken from yesterday. Fortunately the Toyota Hilux and Johannes' Toyota Condor are available.
In the evening, Ed tidied up the tool storage room while Marissa helped to prepare the dinner of goat goulache (see yesterday's post!!) over rice - quite tasty - and salad of chopped cabbage, carrots, and tomatoes.
Tomorrow, Sunday, we of course will not work but attend Pastor Petreaus' church which can last several hours. In the evening we will show The Jesus Film at the Governor's property.
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