Pardon our lack of blog activity. The first few days of our trip have been strenuous and tiring, but rewarding.
We are going to present the first five days of our trip via pictures:
Day 1: Embarkation and Advent
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Sleeping on the plane |
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Drilling rig at Tranquilidad at 160 feet, expected to hit water at 200 feet
Eventually a water tower will be built here |
DAY 2: The Children of Texoxingales
Our first job site was in Teo, where we roofed a school building.
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Victoria playing with kids at Teo |
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Roofing in action |
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Hard at work |
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Generators are heavy
Deathtrap 3000 v2.0 behind Lakey |
DAY 3: The Secret Window
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Mark and Daniel changing a flat on the way to Teo |
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Lifting up trusses |
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Hauling block |
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Roofing the school from a distance
We finished roofing the building our second day on site |
DAY 4 & DAY 5: La Montanita
Our second job site is in La Montanita, where we are building an addition onto Rosa’s house that will contain a pila (wash basin) and bathroom.
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Rosa’s house |
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Rosa’s house and the bags of cement soon to be mook |
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MOOKING |
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Stairway to Heaven
Filling the footers with mook |
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Mark doing the bulk of the work here |
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Graylan playing with one of Rosa’s children |
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Stutts and Lakey carrying block out of the house |
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Brad & Lorie mooking with Kay pasa and Danielson |
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Progress |
It takes minute detail
It takes a holy life
It takes motions
It takes dedication
it takes a death
And only God can allow it,
and you couldn’t do it if you’re not the seed of God
And so the path through the great corridors,
these are corridors unto his perfection,
that is which the prophet and the Urim and Thummim has penetrated,
that through this great sea of blackness
that we penetrated through these corridors
and we went through that last segment
where we went through these dark serpentines
We passed through that corridor.
-Brad