Will it be a house???

Last Saturday began as a somewhat slow day for us in the village.  Chuck started with some texts and later some phone calls to see how the plans for our visitors/helpers/workers from Ontario were going to get into the village.  We had hoped to arrange a vehicle to get them in here the same day they flew up from Manila.  By noon it didn’t look like it would happen.  Then suddenly, it all come together and a mountain jeepney was available to bring them in.  By 3 pm they were loaded up and ready to come.  We figured it would take 2-3 hrs to get here.  Then at 4:15pm a large jeepney pulled up with a couple of white guys from Canada!!!

What a busy evening we had as we got them settled in and showed them around.  We were blessed with some pizzas from our co-workers, that they bought for us to have for supper.

Then the work began.  We figured it wouldn’t take too long to get the plywood down for the first floor and then the walls could get put together and up.  But that wasn’t what happened.  The floor joists had been put up back in August when Chuck’s dad was here and since then they have had lots of time to dry and curve and twist and bend!!!  We really don’t want a curvy, wavy floor.  So from there Adam and Robert (those white guys from Ontario!), began the job of levelling out the floor joists and laying the plywood. 

After 3 1/2 days the floor was finally down and at the same time Chuck had all the main walls laid out and cut to size.  They just had to be put together.

So today they started to put the walls together for the first floor with plans to stand them up tomorrow.

Christina and Jessica were also able to lend a hand in getting all this work done too.

This is so very exciting!!!  We will get a house!

Please pray for the rest of our time in the village.  We leave in just a few days, (the kids and I.)  Adam and Robert also will go out of the village with us and will head back to Manila and then to Canada in the middle of the week.  As Adam and Robert leave, we have 3 guys coming from New Zealand for almost 2 weeks, plus another missionary here, Bob, and another missionary that is on his way to working full time here in the Philippines.  So with Chuck and Erik, it will be a total 7 men working on our house to get the rest of it closed in.  Stayed tuned for more pictures!

Shannon (resident cook and cleaner!)