Perú 6/10/2010: First Work Day

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It's been a long day and we're all pretty tired so this may be a bit short. This morning we split up into two teams: school devotionals and work detail. I was in the latter group. We went to the Children's Home and got a tour of what had been done since last year and what needs to be done this year. Two main projects were taking place: water supply and bunk bed building. I ended up in the water supply group.

You see, the water has been in place for the first floor ever since it was finished, but there is no water on the second or third floor yet. There are to be two sources, one on the hillside behind the home and one on the roof. We began digging a trench for the supply pipe on the hillside. The tools they gave us were woefully inefficient, and the Maestro (basically the foreman) had said that the pipe we were looking for was about 20 cm. down, but we found it about 3 inches down. Because of that, Mike D. ended up breaking that pipe. That actually worked out well because the water ended up softening the ground where we had to dig.

We ran into a lot of leftover concrete from the foundation but managed to finally get the proper tools and break through it. The bunk bed team got a bunch done too but I'm not too sure how far along they are. We worked until about 3:30 when someone said it was time to get ready for the evening, but the kid had also arrived home from school and they talked us into a Peruvians vs. Americans soccer game.

After dinner (some *amazing* Pechuga de Pollo) we went to the church and met up with the ministry team there, then went out to the plaza and began to gather a crowd. We put on the skit we've been practicing so much and it went really well. A couple people gave testimonies and Justin gave the call for salvation (all this through a translator of course), and some people responded. It went well and we met up with a lot of old friends from previous years.

Like I said, we're all pretty tired - these 7 AM to 11:30 PM days are pretty tough. I do have some scheduled days like that with my job, but we don't do hard manual labor all day.

Tomorrow looks like it should be pretty similar, but we'll see what God has in store!

Blessings and thanks for the prayers!
Moses