Guatemala

Construction Week

This week was a very fun but hardworking week. I did a lot of things that I never did before. We were building the Children’s Feeding Center and got to the site each day around 10:15 and left around 5:30

Monday:
The first thing we (Stephanie, Sarah, and me) did was take wood off of a cement column. And then we took wood off of a window pane that they had set the week before. Then we mixed cement and carried buckets of cement for about 2 hours or so and we made more columns and laid a floor. I started to dig out a ditch that had been laid a few years ago and then it was time to leave.

Tuesday:
I was stuck in my ditch all day long. It came up to about my knees and I had to break up and shovel the dirt out for hours. That was all I did all day long.

Wednesday:
This day we were all extremely sore. We did not want to move or do anything. We made more cement and dug out a little bit more of the ditch. Then, we collected all the broken pieces of block and moved a whole pile of dirt to another location.

Thursday:
This day was the hottest day. We were short people because we are dropping like flies. We had a girl hurt her back the other day and then another girl got a metal thing dropped on her head and had a really bad headache and left for the day. We mixed cement and helped pour it and because we did not have as many guys us few girls had to push the wheel barrow full of cement and then shovel it into buckets and lift it to the guys (me and another girl were the only ones strong enough to push the wheel barrow) because it was so hot we were splashing nasty water on each other to cool us off, we did not care how nasty it was because we were so hot.

Friday:
Again we were short people but it was not such a rough day. We left the work sight at 3:00 today. We made more cement and poured window panes. Today one of the volcano’s was smoking. (we have volcano’s where we live its pretty sweet) we made some more cement and then cleaned everything really good.

What we accomplished at the construction site this week:
Laid a floor
Poured many cement columns
Laid a ton of brick
Cleaned out trenches


We did not finish the building because it is so big, they have been building it since 2007. It was a ton of fun and I really enjoyed it but, I do not think I would want to do that the rest of my life.
Friday night we feed the homeless again!

Again, thank you for your continuos prayer and support! It is greatly appreciated by both Jess and me!

I uploaded some pictures 2 are from some of the things we built for construction, one is of my room, one is of the clown/children's ministry, and just some view pictures. next week i am hoping to get more of the construction pictures up here i just did not have time to upload them to a flash drive