P.I.M.

What a day. Today we finished the building portion and included in that two and a half day period the eye glass ministry was also completed. the Lord assembled an amazing team. I loved so much seeing Gabriel again today as we finished the last house. He is receiving the first house we built but chose to help us build the rest.

Yesterday we were so spent. The team was split into two (yuck!). Five went off to eyes glasses at 10am, while the rest of us continued the build. We had an incredible day. Ed our build leader is so awesome. He had us working like a well oiled El Salvador Texaco station (they are extremely efficient and provide yummy treats). At one point I asked Pastor Jorge if there were a lot of people at the eye glasses and his head dropped down to stare at the ground, then he rolled his eyes and nodded yes. We were scared for our counterparts. As we pulled into the drive to pick them up later, Brenna looked at us and pushed her cheeks up with her hands to force a smile.

At the end of a really hard day we did what any hard working, exhausted mission worker would do......climb to the top of a tower (146 steps up a tight spiral staircase, I actually counted them, therapy starts next Monday) to over look the town of San Vicente. It was so comical, Pastor Jorge called the Mayor when we got there and passed his phone to the armed guard who was told to let us in.

Joy has absolutely mastered the spanish language. If she could patent her system Stan would never have to work again. Don't tell her I'm revealing her system but all she does is add the ending: ito, io, or ica to any word, and you are now speaking spanish.

Let's try a lesson together: Guitario, Bananito, truckica, candito, lazyo etc....

Basilio has been incredible, he manages the material and tools, and also opens his home to us for whatever we need. please remember to pray for him and his wife Veronica and their son.

We did have the use of a really cool tool this year that we didn't have last year. It's called a P.I.M. (Personal Impact Machine). He stands 6'-3" tall, but can extend his arms to 11'-9" if he really has too. We brought the "Clint Eastwood" version instead of the "Arnold Schertinagger" version. We preferred the cowboy hat over the shirtless muscle man version. He was very useful in screwing those high, hard to reach areas and passing material up to the roof. We were really surprise at how affordable he was to operate, just 2 pb&j's and some fruit and he was good to go.
I'm seriously looking at getting the same model for my roofing company back home.

Hi to my kitkats, Dad loves you, and thinks of you all.

Time to get ready for church. Tonight we bag food for friday.

We're praying for you all back home, God Bless.

Don