Team Wichita!

What a blessing short-term teams can be :)
A team of 15 is here in Peru for two weeks to continue the on-going relationship they have built with La Viña, one of the churches in the ADIEL. After all the fire fiasco, Cesar (the pastor) said that we could borrow the team for 2 days to help us complete the incredibly large and messy job of repairing the walls, ceilings and doors of our apartment. When I say that we couldn’t have done this work without these guys, I mean it very literally. We spent 8 hours yesterday sanding down the concrete walls and plaster ceilings to get the soot and ash off before we started painting. There was an inch thick layer of dust on the floor and on all of us by the time we were done for the night! But I was so impressed by the attitudes of these kids, and their willingness to work. We put music on, and they danced while they sanded, they sang along, and we actually had a really good time. Today we are going to finish up washing down the walls and begin painting. I’m a little worried because if we got this dirty with just dust, painting today could be kind of interesting!