Recovery!

As soon as the electricity came back we ran down to the church and connected our power tools and worked like crazy. We had stripped down one bathroom to the cement walls and had the old toilets and sinks ripped out. We had one day to get a bathroom online before Sunday morning. I ran and picked up our two college student helpers and we all joined Tina at the church for an all day remodeling binge. We finally got the men's room all finished and two walls of the Lady's room retiled. We came home with sore muscles, bruised hands and plaster all over us. It was a lot of work. Our new student from Spain, Adrian, spent about 6 hours in the bathroom getting the tiles just right.

Doesn't sound like missionary work? Well, it is! Besides our two students, our deacon, Luis, came and hooked up the sink and toilet to the city water. Sunday morning, all the people of our church "Oohed and Ahhed" at the work and were very encouraged. They began talking of improving our building in other ways and of giving more to make it happen. Who needs a revival to get church people excited? Just remodel your bathrooms!

I teach tomorrow at the college, but our students have not had electricity, computer access or water for 4 days, so I am expecting a lot of excuses for not being ready for the test I have scheduled. Well, I guess we can have a review day. Our students need time to recover too!