Monday, June 21, 2010

Another Team Gone...

WOW! We have had volunteers for most of the month of June, and they have gotten A LOT done in Mapanza!!! Enjoy the pics of progress!
Trusses going up on our house (Braxton should not be up that high!!)

Gorgeous sunset picture

Look at these gorgeous red reeds growing!

The orphan house (looks good, huh John?!)

Pastor Maxwell and his beautiful family (Priscilla, Lwiito, and Baby Blu)

Mapanza Baptist church members on Sunday morning

Enjoying some pb&jelly for lunch!

Eric gave the headman his sheriff's badge, and the next day the headman showed up with it proudly sewn onto his shirt!

Blu let the headman shoot his gun..he'd never touched a gun before!

The crew just before leaving the bush--see the trusses on our house in the background!

The finished product of the ceiling in the workers' house

Eric somehow got roped into putting the toilet in....an African toilet with Italian instructions...I don't think he enjoyed it!



This was 3:30am...the rooster interrupted a dream he was having that his wife was meeting him at the airport and he kept hearing a rooster and thinking, "why is there a rooster at the airport??" :)

Eric seemed to always get the septic jobs

This is the cooking pit the guys built for me for when our family is there camping out!

The ceiling in the workers house goes up!

Blu finally got the rabbit! After six shots! The guys said the rabbit finally just threw its arms up and surrendered...

This was the guys' favorite pet rooster that woke them up around 3:30am every day!

Blu puts the sink in the workers house

Thank you Alvarado guys for spending TWELVE nights in the bush to work on the orphanage!! Thank you wives for letting your husbands/son spend 18 days away from you!! Thank you FBC for supporting them! We love you!

1 comment:

Unknown said...

WOW, that's awesome! They really got a lot of work completed. Everything looks so good.