San Luis Talpa- Day 4

It’s Thursday evening—day four—and we’re coming into the home stretch. It’s about 6:00 in the evening here at the Estero y Mar and the sun just set over the Pacific—lovely views. The closer you get to the equator the less change there is to the length of the day as the seasons move through their cycle. The sun’s up by six in the morning and down by six at night.

We’re making great progress at the work site. The biggest concern is about the roofs, whose infrastructure requires a fair amount of welding. We’re bringing in pros for that and they’ll work through the night if they need to. By morning the rafters should be raised and the sheathing can go on. The doors and windows are installed by the manufacturers and we’ll wait until next week for that. Otherwise the houses will be pretty much done.

Reports are that yesterday, as predicted, was a little bit of a down day, but still a great deal got done. Today everyone was perkier and tomorrow I’m guessing we’ll have a lot of enthusiasm on site. We’ll wrap up tomorrow afternoon with family photos, house dedications and the giving of Bibles. Should be another great day.

Tonight we’re having a ‘lagoon-side’ chat with all of the volunteers who want to learn more about this project and about our work in other parts of the world. It’s so important that we get the word out about what we are doing and our hope is that we’ll send 100 ambassadors back to the States and Canada to help with that.

Otherwise not much to report. I’ve been here for over a week now and look forward to getting home. Time passes fast at an event like this—in many ways it seems like I just got here.