Thursday – Day 3 of Construction:

Hola amigos y familia!

We have been well fed by the ladies in the kitchen! They are up before the sun preparing hearty breakfasts for us all. Sue (Ketchikan, AK) makes great oatmeal, I think even Lee O. would approve!! Eileen (Boone, IA), Betty (LaGrangeville, NY) and Sue are a great team in the kitchen.

The guys worked hard all day getting the last wall and most of the ceiling joists and rafters up. Cora (McAllen, TX) and I started scraping the peeling paint off the front and side of the school. We are hoping to have enough time while we are here to paint the front of the school, too.

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Tuesday – Day 1 of Construction:

We started with a poured concrete foundation…by the end of the day we had three walls up!! We had built a shade provider…which came in very useful as the unrelenting sun beat down on us all.

The construction team bonded when they had to lift the entire wall to thread it on the rebar poking up from the concrete…it was quite interesting watching 6 men pick up a wall and hold it!! Thank you for your continued prayers for our safety and health!

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January 20, 2009

Dear VFC partners:

We pray that this is our first update of many, however upon arriving at the “Guido Bucher School”, we found out that we have “no” phone service, (neither cell or land-line) and “no” internet connection. In some ways, we find this very exciting, however it does make it difficult to communicate to the outside world. The good news is that we arrived safely in Temuco Monday afternoon. Monday (our first day) was very busy getting everything set up for the next two weeks. Getting beds ready, tool boxes open, kitchen set up, buying groceries, and cooking our first meal kept all of us very busy. By 10:00 we were ready for bed. No one had a problem sleeping. The days are very hot but the nights cool down. Lots of water and sun-block are the priorities of the day. We expected an “avis” 12 person van however, God provided a very old 18 passenger bus with a driver!!!. God is so…..good! That’s all for now. Keep us in prayer as we are praying for all of you.