05-14-08

Buenos dias,
This morning a small group went out to survey our 6th field(this post should get much more interesting, stay tuned). The group of students from Abliene will begin planting legumes on the fields which are around an acre or two a piece and Jared wanted an idea of their size and shape...
But that´s not all we accomplished before lunch, as Jon Fauss, Greg, and Kelsey went to the Administration building to finish the orfans´computer lab. Now, all Missions Lazarus needs is a new internet connection and the kids will be able to research for projects, play educational games, and do school work.....
We also had the chance to assit in the water project again today. We installed about 120 meter of PVC up in the mountains. ACU will finish the project later this week or next week. It was a great experience to work with the Honduran forman trying to communicate as we progressed in installing pipe. I am always amazed at how much you can get done with very little communcation by words. These families will soon have water for the first time....what a project to help with....God is awesome!!

Mr. Pettit and Mrs. Pettit climbed the mountain to place a ground rod for Elora II early this morning. She is grounded and sounds good. We are happy the last two storms did not damage the radio as we had to wait for the rod. Mrs. Pettit is now the official mountain climber for the radio team as she has made it up(and down) three times. Good for her! Only one snake seen.

After lunch, we all went to the Missions Lazarus school in San Marcos and then divided into a radio team and a performance team. The radio team finished up their work there (looks great!) while the performance group acted out David and Goliat again. This time, Goliat (played by Jaiman) really frightened the kids and by the end, 2 were in tears. Fortunately, the tears vanished as we spent some time playing in the schoolyard before distributing coloring books and pencils and saying good-bye. Our whole team was so grateful Mrs. Whitney put the program together for us. She has worked so hard directing everything and coordinating.