Good Saturday!  The team went back to the village and built six more houses while putting concrete in seven.  We are dealing with some hills and two of our teams building side by side today had major issues with rocks.  Tyler Compagner has been here many times and is a really good builder.  He said this was the toughest build he has ever encountered in Guatemala.

The amazing thing about getting concrete in the seven houses is that I had Josh Schlehuber on one of the teams which is about like losing three good men!  Finally talked Jeff DeJonge into letting Josh work on his building team!

We are hosting a baby shower tonight for Danny & Evy Rossi.  I am not much on baby showers but hopefully this will be a blessing to them.  Special thanks to Miss Polly’s granddaughter, Leslie, for all the clothes she provided.  Also, special thanks to the couple from the Friendship family who gave the finances necessary for Evy to have the baby in a private hospital.  What a blessing!

Everyone is well.  Thanks for checking on us and we ask that you pray for us.  We will pray for the services in our respective churches (chapel for Tim & Megan) tomorrow.

P.S. – Brianne, Levi says flirting while on mission trips does not count against a person.  I’m just sayin’!

Disclaimer – this post is actually being written at 5:00AM on Saturday, 7/21.  Sorry for the delay!

Our first day of ministry was good.  It was slower than expected but a good day overall.  It began with the usual for us with our morning devotional in the upper room.  That was a blessed time.  We then loaded the vans for what would end up being a lot of driving before the day was over.

Our first stop was in a village to help another ministry build houses.  Their team had asked for some help as time had become an issue for them.  Due to a number of circumstances, it was actually 11:15AM when we arrived on the building sites.  The GRACE team built and completely finished i.e. concrete, doors, hardware, et cetera three houses in that village.

We loaded up in the vans and drove for over an hour to get to our village for the week.  This is our first time to be in this village.  The townspeople were glad to see us.  We completed two more houses up to the point of being ready for concrete and two more just need to have the tin finished and they too will be ready for the concrete.  Good day.

Supper was wonderful and we did not have to rock anyone to sleep last night!

We do not know who or when but someone i.e. a member of one of the teams climbed into the water heater room and stepped on the main pipe going into the water heater.  That erupted yesterday shortly after noon which meant we had no water.  Thankfully, Ross Genzink is with us so he had to leave the worksite and come do the major repairs.  I guess all is well that ends well but I do wish whoever did that would not have climbed through that window.

Thanks for praying for us and keeping up with us via this blog.  Keep praying!