Day 5: The Answers for Inquiring Minds

The answers to your questions:

A) Yes. Day 4 (Friday) was a long hard day of work because we wanted to get six courses of block up so we could pour the stablilizing band of concrete on Day 5 (Saturday). We did not leave the work site on Friday until almost 6:00. We were so tired we canceled our planned trip to the MaxiBodega. We ate, had a great devotional and went to bed to get a good night's sleep. That is why the Day 4 blog was short. Before bed we decided we would get up early to be on the work site by 7:00 a.m. in hopes of getting the band poured by noon so we could spend the afternoon playing soccer and going to the market in downtown Choluteca. Those plans first went wrong when Bob woke us all up at 4:15 in the bunkhouse looking for the key to get into the Mission House. Then it took us until 2:30 to get the band poured and the tools cleaned up. Because Jose, our driver had to catch his bus home at 4:00 the soccer game had to be postponed to Monday but we did get to spend an hour at the market in Choluteca, a Team One tradition. By devotion we were all spent, and everyone went to bed early, except for Bob whose mattress that he had commandeered from Jose early in the week went mysteriously missing leaving Bob only boards to sleep on. The exhaustion and activity led to a decision to do the blog this morning.

B) Yes. It wasn't midnight, but we did make a MaxiBodega run after Rosa's chicken and rice (it was awesome as always, JB) to get the omelet supplies and to corner the Choluteca market on vanilla for a certain former team leader's wife. When the MaxiBodega had no vanilla, we were forced to continue our quest by traveling further to La Collonia where we purchased all the dark vanilla they had, and most of the white. That threw us behind and made our devotion later than usual. So you see, Dennis, it is really your fault that there was no blog post last night!

C) No, but Bob did fall asleep during the devotional he was leading. We quickly awakened him ("No siesta, Bobo!") since after our early morning wake up call we had repeatedly warned him during the day that if he even attempted to take a nap, he might die in his sleep. He woke back up in time to discover his mattress missing and then was late getting to bed as he searched for it. Somehow it had migrated to the bus.

All of that made for a full, blessed day. The concrete pouring meant we all worked hard in spurts with some downtime which led to blessed time with the young men who had been our coworkers (more on that tonight). We got good rest to prepare us for worship today. We will worship this morning at the church where we have been working. We will worship again at 4:00 with our brothers and sisters and children in El Carrizo! In between a trip to Altos de Santa Marta. We are excited and ready to go, but we will miss Kristen, Dennis, and David most today, but you will be in our hearts and minds. Next year in Choluteca!