If it's Monday morning, it must be chaos!

So, a small team works just like a large team. The morning of the first workday we spend a significant amount of time bumping into walls! But... we were at work by 10 or so. We took a few minutes to see the Chapel. WOW! Just when you think it can't get more beautiful and awe inspiring, it does. It has been painted inside and out, the floor tiles are in, and really lovely light fixtures installed. they are building a fence along the perimeter by the porch. Great idea since it is the edge of a cliff! The fence promises to be very attractive with lovely pillars and wrought iron fencing. To Wheeler's surprise and delight, we discovered Raimondo was on his way to begin installing the windows! He has hand made them all out of the most beautiful mahagony. By the end of the day, he had put one whole window in (minus the glass) and several of the others partially.

Our assignment is to paint the interior of the school. Most of the classrooms are already done. We are painting the kindergarten room, a bathroom, a storage room and the hallway this week. We made alot of progress on the kindergarten room...or I should say, Janet and Bonnie made alot of progress. More on what Meagan and I were doing later. As some of the teens from April know all to well, this is hard work on the cinderblock walls. They suck in the paint faster than you can get it on. Nevertheless, most of the room is done.

Meagan and I joined 7 of the girls on a walk up to the cell tower, along with Gil who is here for 6 months with his wife. This is the cell tower we look at across from the Children's Home on top of the mountain! I honestly didn't know you could get there from here but we did! The views were breathtaking. The little girls, of course, scrambled up the mountain like little agile goats. Meagan followed right on their heels while I managed to haul myself up in the most ungainly way possible. Nevertheless, we made it up and down with no mishaps!

The other cool thing to report is the extension of the kitchen/laundry building. The picture really speaks for itself but it is really great. Hard to believe just a few months ago it was dirt and piles of cinderblocks.

Suzy goes tomorrow, we hope, to pick up a newborn from Social Services. We don't know too much about him except that his mother is mentally ill and got no pre-natal care. He weighed 4lbs at birth. Suzy is hoping he might be up to 5 after a stay in the hospital. She is anxious to get him because she worries that he might not fare well if he stays too long with Social Services. Please keep him in your prayers.

Tomorrow morning Suzy and I will meet to discuss a potential micro-enterprise involving ceramic water filters. More on that tomorrow.

We saw the man I asked you to pray for again on the road. We are going to ask Rosangel to get a pair of crutches for him. We would really like to make his life just a tiny bit easier. I have one of those sport bags that you can wear like a backpack. I think that would be a good thing for him to have to carry things. Please pray that we are able to find him in a place we can safely stop and reach him.

Hope all is well back home. The weather has been glorious here and seeing the kids today was such an enormous joy.