Luxury

Three weeks ago we as a family, including Christina and Jessica, headed into our village to continue work on Christina’s house.  We wanted to be able to give Chuck as many straight days of work as possible without coming in and out to see us.

The trip began with that wonderful 10 km hilly hike.  We were on the trail before 9 am with 8 carabao hauling our stuff in behind us.  We had to leave some items behind to be brought in the next day as we are having a hard time estimating how many carabao we need.  The next day 3 more carabao came out to get the rest, including our stove!!!

Our co-worker Erik also went in with us for the first 6 days and later returned for a few more days to help out.  What a blessing it was to have the extra hands to get things done.

The first job to get done was to put a finish on the counter top of Christina’s kitchen cabinets.  After the final sanding was done and a couple of coats of urethane, we were given the all clear to start cooking in her house.  As us ladies started to set up the kitchen, Chuck and Erik made us a nice big kitchen table to eat at.

This was all luxury for us.  If you remember last time we cooked and ate in a dark room, with a dirt floor, no sink and on a table that was too small.  It is amazing what can seem so special for some of us.

We also were privileged to have running water, some of the time, if it rained!!!  The first week we had enough rain but then it didn’t rain for 12 days straight.  This meant hauling water to fill up water barrels to use for bathing, cooking, dishes, toilet flushing and filtering for drinking water.  Praise the Lord for strong arms to haul the water to the house.

There is so much to tell of our trip.  We will keep writing more stories and posting more pictures throughout the week.  Keep coming back to check them out.