More Wall building

Tyler was what all the teens looked like after the digging, mixing cement and sweating.

Matt playing with the children at CFTAC

one of the children at CFTAC

a look at how the wall is going

Aafje carrying the cider block

the guys mixing cement

Back down to the jungle and building the wall up today. It was another hot and sunny day. The morning started with me bandaging all the blisters on the hands of the kid from the day before. We got down to the site and went right to hard work. Mixing gravel, sand, cement and water together to start laying the foundation for the wall in the trench we dug the day before. Then there was the continuation of the trench digging on the other side of the big tree we stopped at the day before. It was a none stop day of digging, shoveling the gravel, cement clearing the brush, putting motar between blocks and so much more. We worked from 9 till 1 then 2:30 till 5:30. We got the first layer of blocks set. The mixing of the cement was such a tough job and again the teens were amazing at thier tireless effert. At 5:30 we could have walked back to the house but no, the teens wanted to play their Gabonese friends in a "Friendly" soccer game. That lasted about 45 minutes. We had an American dinner of mac and cheese, burgers and hot dogs, yum. I should say we had an African lunch of rice, chopped up chicken parts and cabbage. The chicken taste fine but it looks weird. We had two missionaries join us for dinner. One from the Bongolo hospital and the other a translator from the most eastern part of Gabon. After dinner they shared thier testimony with us and how they ended up here. It was a wonderful lesson in listening to God's leading. Pray for Pauline to get an electric meter. She is the one who lives in eastern Gabon and just bought a house there. It has no running water or electicity. She has never had running water in the 15 years of being in Gabon and to her it is nothing big but she needs electicity to do her translating.

Tomorrow is planning the outreach for saturday and shopping for stuff for that. Pray that we really listen for God to direct us in our planning time. Thanks for checking this and your prayers for our team.

Oops, one moreprayer request. Today Kari was sick with the big D. She stayed behind with Meredith (the missionary here) and is better tonight but now Aafje has the big D. We all will probably be affected by it at some time, but these 2 need your prayers now. Aafje is laughing about it which is cool but still do pray.