Tuesday, we start the house

All night long it rained and poured with lots of lightning. It was pretty peaceful except for the visions of working on the house in the mud and rain.

We had decided to leave earlier today to beat the rain that we were sure would come sometinme in the day, and as you can imagine, it started to pour again as we headed to the people mover!

We arrived at the job site, and immediately set up a tarp to put our tools under to keep them out of the rain, and then we all huddled under the tarp also.

Even the local residents stood under their eve to stay out of the rain. About 30 minutes later the rain stopped and we went to work.

Kent Sapenfield jumped in, and laid jobs out for everybody to do. Mark set up the saw horses, and went to work marking and cutting the lumber into stud lengths. The rest of us stacked the lumber into organized piles and started layouing out the walls.

Tim Hagen left with a couple of the guys to go back to Ontario and try to finish the stage that we started on yesterday. I do not have any pictures of their work today, but they sid they had a great day. The got the stage frame up and leveled, and started laying the decking on top

Several of the local community showed up to help us frame the building. They have a group called the committee, who helps pick who gets the next new house, and so the put out the word to the committe to come help. And they did, so it went very well today.

Framing the first wall

Raising the first wall

Raising the second wall

Mark and Kenny

At lunch time, the lady that we are building the house for and her sister fixed kunch for us. Chicken and rice, tomatoes and avacodos. It was good.

This one escaped lunch

After lunch the girls started putting siding on the exterior. They did a great job, but the local men jumped in to help with the nailing, and sped it up.

Waiting to get started

Some of the girls went over and played jump rope with the kids that were hanging around, and some just set back and admired the guys who were doing such a fine job.

Jump rope

After raising all 4 walls, the interior partitions and siding 2 of the exterior walls, we were all exhausted, so we called it a day.

Raising the 3rd wall

Exterior siding

Raising the 4th wall

Last wall in place

Siding

OSHA approved scaffolding?

God is so good, it did not rain any more today, until we started to pick up our tools and then it was just a brief shower. Thanks for all of your prayers.

For prayer request, quite a few have insect bites, so pray for healing and no itching for them. Also pray that we will continue to develop relationships with the people we meet along our journey. Ron Allen made it at about 6:00 so thanks for prayers for his safety.