Thursday July 22

WATER!!!

Today the water trench was finished, the pipes were connected and buried and at 5:30, water flowed into the holding tank! Yolanda and Tito shouted praise to God and clean water is finally available to many families who did not have it before!

One of the people who will benefit from the water is an 8o year old man with tuberculosis. He cannot work, and his kids work hard to provide just enough for their kids, and so he and his wife often are hungry. Today, as Yolanda sat and talked with him, he was overwhelmed that foreigners would come to help him. When she told him that it was because of the work of the Holy Spirit in our hearts and because of God's love for him, he sat and cried. Tears of joy. Tears of gratitude for what God has done for him.
We also had the privilege of tasting the 1st batch bread out of a new mud oven as a thank you for our time with the families of La Tejeria. What a humbling experience to be given half of their bread! A bigger or more generous thank you could not have been offered.

In working with people this week, we have seen and heard many of these stories. We are all in love with the people of Bolivia and will remember the stories and people for years to come.

(No blog update tomorrow night. We will be traveling to Samaipata and the computer is not making the trip!)The new oven. They were making it yesterday, today we enjoyed the bread!

The pastor holding the water pipe while waiting for a post to hold it up.