Monday, July 11

More Sickness: Yesterday, we counted Tim, Mark, and Christine sick.  Today, Jenna, Mike, and Kyle joined them.  Kyle seemed to perk up soon, and Mike's troubles only started in the morning (while the others were sick throughout the night).  But, they were all sick enough that Shirley dragged them to the local clinic.  Everyone got antibiotics and two (Christine and Mark) got IVs for dehydration.  By the end of the day, all were starting to feel better.  

We are taking more precautions -- mostly with water.  Even though we get filtered, bottle water, we are now boiling our water.  Most of the people who live here do that, so we should too.

Now we start working: We started to build Sunday School rooms onto the church.  We have three room to build.  Today, we started by clearing the area of rocks and making reinforced bar structures to build concrete columns around.  We spent most of the day, however, waiting.  The rebar building took only a few people and we finished the rock moving in a short time. 

We also filled in areas around the church that were washed away by the two rain storms.

More rain: As the afternoon came so did the rains. This time, it was more of a regular shower than a torrent.  Nothing washed away and we didn't need an ark to get through.

We had free time in the evening to rest and take showers.