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Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Ben picked us up at 8:45 this morning to head back to the church. We did more of the mortar and plastering today. Mark & Vern started on the plumbing. First, Wanda & Carla dug a trench from the cistern to the wall and then Mark proceeded to chisel and hammer a trench in the brick wall for the plumbing line. The girls didn’t have a lot to do this morning; we took a nice long walk around the church neighborhood. Then at about 11:00, we asked Pastor Ben if there was anything we could be doing. He talked to the foreman and he said, “Yes, he had a good job for us to keep us busy.” He took us beside the church to about a ½ load of 1 inch rock and wanted it moved to another pile. We proceeded to move that rock with buckets and wheelbarrows until 2:00 and finished it right before dinner. (Dinner here is at 2:00.)He wanted this done, so that there would be room for parking by the church. (We decided we may not ask him again for work.) After lunch we started putting plaster on the second floor. Because we had mixed up this plaster about 4:15, we had to get it all used up so we didn’t quit today until about 5:45. Normally quitting time is 5:00.
The good news is nobody has gotten sick or caught malaria, however, the bad news is that Henrietta took a tumble in our dorm this morning and got banged up a bit. She spent the day recuperating at Pastor Ben & Amy’s home helping homeschool their children and helped them with their piano lessons. She is doing fine, but a little sore and bruised. Then about 5:30, Sue stumbled helping haul a ladder up the steps and landed on her wrist. She felt it pop and was in quite a bit of pain, so after we left the worksite, we dropped the crew off at the dorms and Pastor Ben, Sue and Carla took Sue to an Emergency Room. The report came back as a torn ligament which is better than a broken wrist, which we thought.
Continue to pray for our safety, health and our bodies!! We have felt your prayers as we continue to do extremely hard work and no one is extremely stiff and sore. No one has been sick from the water or food.
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