The alarm rang at 550 this morning. Today was a very special day, Eric's 18th birthday. Besides this national holiday, it was also exciting because we started our houses. In the morning we had a short prayer service, led by SLUH guys, Eric, Brian Schwartze, and Ben Merrill. After a hearty breakfast of scrambled eggs and refried beans wrapped in a tortilla, we got in our line of 11 unmarked fifteen-passenger vans and took off for the Colonia. After meeting our families we took inventory of all the lumber and materials we had and started building and painting. After a morning of hard work trying to level ground that seemed impossible to level (except for Mr. Mill's team who had the entire base of the house laid out for them) we had lunch with amazing turkey sandwiches (eric's spelling: sandwitches), bananas (eric's spelling: bannannas), chips, and oreos. We worked hard the rest of the day, made a lot of new friends, and made awesome progress on our houses. Now we are all slightly sunburnt, hoping our houses havent fallen over, dead tired and falling asleep while writing this blog. Everything has been great down here and we can only hope the following days will be as good. Thank you for keeping us in your prayers. Here are some pictures of the houses at the end of the first workday.
Buenos Noches San Luís
3 comments:
T Mudd - I didn't know snakes could get sun burned! Put some sunblock on those PYTHONS!!!
daddio
be smart / be safe
You guys are all in our prayers
Eric are there spelling issues? All this money for a SLUH education and SPELLING issues??????? We're still proud of you.
Eric,
Tell that brave woman in the yellow T-shirt that I'm saying extra prayers for her. She reminds me of an old high school friend of mine.
Still praying for all of you as always.
Denise
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