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Today is Saturday. It was a hot day with a few clouds. We decided to work on the church in the morning and leave the afternoon to relax and catch up on things such as washing clothes (which get dirty very quickly from all the dust and mud!)
At the building site, the men were busy laying more bricks and the walls are close to being finished; past the window frames. Half a meter of bricks need to be laid around the church yet. They also worked with the chainsaw to cut the wood into the finished rafters. As well, they put the protector bars in the window frames. These bars are necessary to keep people from breaking into the church.
Irene was busy working on the spooning. She decided that she would also clean up a lot of the garbage around the building site. She piled it all together and found a deep hole to put it all into. The children saw what she was doing and she showed them that they could cover it all with dirt and they happily did so. They laughed about the whole thing but it was good to show them how to clean up garbage, instead of just throwing it everywhere.
Marg held her Bible study for church leaders of thefive churches in the area. They sat in the shade and the men had brought their instruments and sang many praise songs. They worked on the song book (which is going to be a book of songs in both Quechua and Spanish for all the churches around here). Songs are sung by memory here and therefore, there is not that many new songs, but rather only a few that are sung over and over again. This song book will help the church leaders introduce new songs to sing during services.
Carolyn, Lisa and Francine stayed at the house and cleaned up the dishes and floors. There was a rather large spider which Lisa gladly put to rest. Lisa also organized songs to print out for us to sing on Sunday to the Bolivians.
Carolyn, Francine and Lisa filled tubs with water and soap and did their washing. Pete decided to try a new method of washing by using his feet to tromp all over the clothes in the soapy water. He figured it sounded like a wash machine as well. His method worked very well!
The rest of the day was spent chatting, sleeping and reading. It was nice to have some relaxing time.
Today is Saturday. It was a hot day with a few clouds. We decided to work on the church in the morning and leave the afternoon to relax and catch up on things such as washing clothes (which get dirty very quickly from all the dust and mud!)
At the building site, the men were busy laying more bricks and the walls are close to being finished; past the window frames. Half a meter of bricks need to be laid around the church yet. They also worked with the chainsaw to cut the wood into the finished rafters. As well, they put the protector bars in the window frames. These bars are necessary to keep people from breaking into the church.
Irene was busy working on the spooning. She decided that she would also clean up a lot of the garbage around the building site. She piled it all together and found a deep hole to put it all into. The children saw what she was doing and she showed them that they could cover it all with dirt and they happily did so. They laughed about the whole thing but it was good to show them how to clean up garbage, instead of just throwing it everywhere.
Marg held her Bible study for church leaders of thefive churches in the area. They sat in the shade and the men had brought their instruments and sang many praise songs. They worked on the song book (which is going to be a book of songs in both Quechua and Spanish for all the churches around here). Songs are sung by memory here and therefore, there is not that many new songs, but rather only a few that are sung over and over again. This song book will help the church leaders introduce new songs to sing during services.Carolyn, Lisa and Francine stayed at the house and cleaned up the dishes and floors. There was a rather large spider which Lisa gladly put to rest. Lisa also organized songs to print out for us to sing on Sunday to the Bolivians.
Carolyn, Francine and Lisa filled tubs with water and soap and did their washing. Pete decided to try a new method of washing by using his feet to tromp all over the clothes in the soapy water. He figured it sounded like a wash machine as well. His method worked very well!
The rest of the day was spent chatting, sleeping and reading. It was nice to have some relaxing time.
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