Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Tuesday:
We had another hard day of work. Jeff, Dave, and Hernan continued working on the gates while Carol and Jon worked again with Mandy helping her with categorizing and sorting donations. Rachel, Andrea, Rae, and Lexie worked with Jaime on the grounds clearing and mulching more fruit trees, and clearing more waterways.  Lunch again at Alexander's was very good.
After so much careful planning and measuring to place the hinges for the gates, the guys were ready to attempt to mount the first gate.  All hands were called in to help lift. The very heavy gate fit perfectly!  Hernan's joy at the success was immediately apparent. The gates are the major goal for our visit, and it appears that all four doors will be in place before we leave.
Andrea, Lexie, Rachel and Rae went up with Jaime to work on the future garden area.  This garden is planned to provide enough produce to allow Casa de Fe to be more self-sufficient, and hopefully to produce a surplus to use as a fund raising product. The area now is very wet and boggy. We were there to dig drainage canals, and this day was the muddiest yet!
We were invited to have supper with Mark and his wife, Cynthia at their home.  There we met another friendly missionary family, Andy and Priscilla and their three children. Cynthia prepared a wonderful Peruvian dish, and Priscilla provided a delicious banana desert.









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