Day 7 - A Twist

Hola! I apologize ahead of time that this blog is coming in so late - as a preview, I will tell you that today was much more like a mission trip than any other in that we ran into some discouragements along the way.

First of all, we have not lost heart and are still in this race to the finish. With that said, let me tell you about our day. Our first surprise came in the morning when our dearly beloved Rachel had woken up several times in the night sick. Thankfully, she was the only one who had gotten sick and spent most of the day back at the house resting. She is feeling much better now. As for myself, I felt a little queezy in the morning, but it went away not too long after lunch. The team did not have as much work to do at the construction site since the pool was pretty much complete and the tasks that were left only required a few people. I spent much of the day filming the last necessary shots for the AMAD video, and got everything recorded that I needed to, which is a huge praise! Tomorrow, I will get some more "artistic" shots just in case, as well as filming interviews of our team about the trip since it will be our last working day.

There were some fun aspects to the day as well - the therapists at AMAD brought out some of the older students to the gym that our team had been working to paint and put a ceiling in. Not only did they get to see the progress, they got to help put the top coat of paint on a part of the wall! They got even more excited when Thomas offered himself as an alternate canvas for painting, which resulted in even more smiles and excellent video footage.

As we were loading up the cars to go back home, we realized that one of the car batteries had died. Since it was a manual, the guys pushed it a bit in reverse and we got it started that way. However, the car completely died again at a pretty big intersection, so the guys jumped out of the cars as quickly as possible, ran behind the car, and pushed as fast as they could into the nearby gas station. Alas, the car still would not start. This put a dent into our evening plans, but we were able to make it back to our house with only about 30 minutes delay - and we made it back safely.

We will be without a 2nd car until at least tomorrow noon, so getting all of us to the worksite on time will be difficult, but possible with taxis. Pray that we would have renewed vision for our work and that we would not get discouraged by the obstacles along the way.