Today was another day of buildering, as Glenn likes to call
it. The brick-laying of House 7 and 8 was finished yesterday and the trusses
started going up today. The first job was to finish the two main trusses of House
7, before it took numerous people to lift them up and put them into place and
brace. The three boys with trade experience are doing a great job leading,
directing and giving out jobs. We are learning many different things each day,
from how to actually make a truss, to nailing in hoop iron and how to
successfully eat or distribute your greens.
House 7 trusses and roof work is certainly taking place. The
buildering method is a lot less conventional than we are used to, but it does
the job. Hoop iron and gang plates are used a lot more often over here, and the
process does take a little longer without a nail gun.
A load of rock was also delivered and needed spreading out,
which took a lot of muscle power and determination, but a lot of laughs was also
had.
Robert K made a visit to check out the progress and his
comment was, “You are very close to getting in trouble because you are working
too fast”. It sure is satisfying to look at the work that we have completed at
the end of the day and remember the reason we are doing it.
Dinner tonight was posho and beans – our first experience,
followed by Devotions, capably led by baby Mich and ‘War Dance’, the movie.
4 comments:
Love the movie "War Dance". Wow, you guys are doing an amazing job - how cool to think that we will have another 16 children and 2 mothers in the village very soon.. Thank you for your good work - you are most welcome! :) Not sure about the making up of new words by Glenn - I suppose he can always claim it is Lugandan, but even they know how to say 'building' :) Keep Smiling! Thanks for the updates.
Fantastic to read how the team is doing!! You guys are doing amazing! Great to see how God is using you guys. Blessed to be a blessing!!
I believe you said that you had posho and beans for the first time this far into your time. That's so sad. Should be mandatory in the first week at least once or twice. So good to hear how things are going. God bless.
Amen Stan - I think we may need to make that a policy :) Posho & beans on day 2 of every team!!!
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