family went on a mini-vacation for the weekend and we (Justin,
Francesco, and myself) are house-sitting for him. Quite a nice break.
Lots of things have been happening and I want to tell you a little
about it.
Here's what I do in a day:
6:00-6:30 - wake up. Immediately realizing I slept through my 5:30
alarm... again. When I set my alarm in the evening it just feels so
possible. After spending some time with Jesus I go and haul some
water from the well to be used for the showers and flushing of the
day.
7:30 - meet Francesco at the corner store close to our house. Pick up
breakfast (usually bread with beans for 20 cents - so good). Together
we walk to the work site. The path we take leads us over a sketchy
bridges and past the same people each day (not to mention the
beautiful mountains in the backgroud). It's a 30 min. walk and I look
forward to it each morning.
8:00 - begin work. For those of you who don't know, we are building a
Bible School. We mix cement with shovels, make bricks by hand,
construct walls, pour columns of concrete, and pretty much anything
else that needs to be done. It's super fun work because you can see
your progress each day. They hope to begin classes in the new site by
January.
Neat story: While we were transporting already-made blocks by
wheel-barrow, we came across a pretty big snake. It was a spitting
cobra about 1.5 meters. I removed a brick from the stack and there it
was, curled up and overflowing in the uncovered block. I tried to
play it cool, being wary of being the scaredy-cat foreigner, but when
I told someone about it everyone came running. Dao and Everisto, our
resident hunters came running with shovels. As soon as the snake
showed itself, Dao lunged with the shovel and chopped the snake pretty
bad. They killed it. Roly said that it probably wouldn't have killed
me, so that was nice. Anyways, I spent the rest of the day being a
little paranoid each time I removed a brick.
1:00 - finish work and head home.
1:30 - arrive at home, shower, eat, and maybe nap
3:15 - Spanish lesson
The evenings are spent either at the Bible School for classes (i'm
taking 2 courses; Discipleship and Panorama of the New Testement), or
doing other random things. The evenings are pretty short because
everyone is always in their houses here by about 9:00.
9:00 - have supper and watch Spanish soap operas.
9:30 - shower and go to sleep.
Sundays mornings are spent at church (I've been helping in Sunday
School with the kids. Lots and lots of miscommunications... haha).
In the afternoons Francesco and I go and help at a soccer school for
kids. It is run by the former coach for the national team. His name
is Jordan and he's just a great guy who loves Jesus even more than
soccer. This next weekend (Oct. 31 - Nov. 2) we are having a retreat
where we will talk about Jesus and train. I can't wait.
Jesus has been so good to me these past few months. This is His
ministry and it's fun to be a part of it. He is so good.
- Tim Bock
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