Pictures Don't Do Justice.

Now on summer break, we spend most of our time at the new center's construction site. We are working really hard and trying to work really fast because this site needs to be up & ready by the first week of February when the kids return to school. AHHHH.

Today I want to share some photos and give a little insight to the work we are doing!

We collect rocks for the floor (as I blogged about before). I'd say this pile is close to 2 hours work of collecting in the field beside the center, throwing them over top the wall, and wheel barreling them up the hill, closer to the building. This pile would cover maybe 1/8 of a room's floor.

This is how we go about mixing cement. The days we have to mix cement (usually for little benches beside the front wall) are the toughest. Stirring, mixing, adding water, and shoveling into the mold is quite the task without a machine!

Another one of our rock piles!

A field on one side of the center walls. While singing my heart out to "Walking In A Winter Wonderland" & looking for rocks, we have come across a black widow, many random cows, new Bolivian friends, animal skulls, and the biggest ants I have ever seen whom really seem to enjoy crawling up my legs and biting me. Makes things entertaining!

 One of the 6 rooms on the bottom level & one of the two rock floors waiting to be cemented!

 One of the 3 floors that has been cemented in the last week! (We hired help for this job, woohoo!)

 

 The largest room (our future library)! This week we are working on filling the floor with wheel barrels of dirt we've dug up to raise the floor before we collect the rocks to cover it. This morning we brought in 30-40 wheel barrels. Progress, no? :)

 Last week I had the pleasure of helping with a little bit of the electricity. I didn't do much, just some work with PVC pipes before the cement floor got laid but it reminded me of all the work with my Dad as a kid and for that I couldn't help but smile the whole time. (Not to mention it was a break from...You guessed it...ROCKS!)

Spent an afternoon cleaning all that out of a room. I vote we have a bonfire!

Some of the bumps and blisters from the time at construction! I am starting to have my father's hands...

We are now working around 3 or 4 full days a week and 2 half days. Nine a.m. to three-thirty p.m. with a packed lunch. Though the days have gotten longer and the work has remained tedious I am finding a lot of enjoyment in being up there with the team. I don't know if it's the hot sun or what but we seem to be getting a tad more goofy and having more fun as we work together to get the tasks done. Today we talked about praying that we have good attitudes about the work amongst many of our conversations to pass the time.

PRAYER REQUESTS:
*That we would keep focusing on why we are doing what we are doing.
*That the project would keep advancing in time for use in February.
*That our attitudes would stay positive!