So much in so little time!

After two days of feeling like bobcats...and by that I mean the tractor-like equipment, we are ready to rest our sore arms. Thursday morning we got busy with the building project that we are here to help with. We heard so much about how amazing last´s years youth venture team is for beginning this difficult manuel labor, and now one year later with the foundation laid and walls several feet high we are doing our best to bring a new set of enthusiasm. Our work has consisted of hauling wheelbarrows full of sand/dirt from a large pile up into the ¨building¨, spreading it out as evenly as possible and packing it down. To complete the packing we do dances, jumping exercises and our most useful technology, a poll with a large chunk of cement on the end. We aspire to lay a layer of brick over all of this on Monday and Tuesday next week. At the daycare we are fed breakfast, lunch and break....or rather, bread, rice and bread. It´s the most delicious food you can imagine really and more of it then you could ever consume. No atkins diets are allowed here!
Yesterday evening we got a pretty exciting opportunity to go to a Christian concert, Jesus Adrian Romero. While it may have caused me a small amount of stress to keep all girls in my line of sight, it ended up being a wonderful and beautiful event that meant a lot to us. There was a futbol (soccer) stadium packed out on this holiday, Corpus Cristi. So much excitement and people there to worship! We also had a great time with the new friends we have made in our short time here.
The following is a list I wrote down from the girls this afternoon when we reflected on the ways we have seen God in the last few days:
1) We saw the face of God in all the people at the concert. It was all about God and people sang along with so much passion.
2) We saw God on Thursday at work when so many people came to help build on the holiday, their day off from work.
3) God is in all the people here and their welcoming hospitality and enthusiasm.
4) God is at work in all the progress of the work around the area at Samuelito and Stansberry especially. Carina, who has spent some growing up years here has seen this progress happen.
5) We see God in the peoples openness and lack of judgement.
6) We see so much love in the sense of family and in the way all people are welcomed into the home and food is shared endlessly.

We are excited to see where all we will see God and the relationships that will be build and progress made in the next 2 weeks.