The past two days have worked as well as they possibly could. Today in particular had the potential to have been a tough day to work. The food and fuel inflation here has really hurt a lot of people so there was a national strike today - we left our house shortly after 6 hoping to avoid the mess and we were able to get to the work site before the roads were closed.
As of this evening, we have completed the footer digging, we have built the rebar towers and put 4 of the 8 in place, we have started pouring corner support concrete. It looks like we will complete the pouring of all footers by sometime on Saturday and this will put us about a week ahead of the original plan. All of this is possible because we have some incredible workers - all of them from the community where we are working. Everyone of our workers is not afraid to work hard and the work associated with building in Honduras is very hard work. Everything that we do is manual. all of our digging and rock breaking is done with picks, shovels, and bars. All of the rebar is cut with hacksaws and pieced together by hand. We don't have any power tools or nail guns. Hard work is the answer to getting this job done.
The community and the church is very excited about what we are working toward. I can't wait to see the faces as this building begins to take shape. That will start happening next week as we plan to start laying block on Tuesday or Wednesday.
I promise pictures over the weekend. I am going to try my laptop on Sunday and hopefully it will be dried out from the rain and will work again.
Be a blessing to somebody today!
Marc Tindall
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