So I finally got some pictures up! If you want to see some more, John also put some up on his blog and you can check them out at http://hawkjo.blogspot.com.

Looking down the dry barrel.  

Our 30 foot hand-dug well.  

Found this in my shirt. Fortunately BEFORE I put it on.

The roof going on the mission house.

Enrique's little girl pays the price for wanting to look at my camara...a picture with me. 

Gary, one of the students at the baptism. His family lives in the nearby village of Yata.

The baptism. Waiting on the plank from left to right. Ebert, Enrique (a staff member being rebaptized) and Jessica.

Pastor Parada with the baptisimal candidates in the cafeteria/main classroom area. 

The JUNGLE 

The reservoir. The brown path on the left is the dike. It actually runs for a good hundred yards back into the jungle. Most of it was done earlier by the students, but we helped finish off the last 30 feet to finish redirecting water flow as well as raise the entire dike a good foot or so.

A view of the wheel from topside. The shaft at top center of the picture is where the belt for the alternator will go.  

There's the finished product. Complete with white water.  

Under construction. Matt and Phil lay the brick for the dam directly above the waterwheel.  

As you can see, we were working on the roof. But we were a day late with the tin. You can see the oven there as it looked in all its splendor before the rain came. 

Euler and the oven after it caved in.

Phil and I pose with all 20 inches of my monster trophy. 

The snake they say could've killed me. 

Yep. This is how we do our laundry. Hermano John gets it done.  

The well is dry

Not really...I mean there's still water down there, but not enough to pump out. So last night I stoked up the fire in the kitchen and spent about 2 hours boiling river water. Unfortunately the old kettles added more unpleasant residue as well as a metallic charcoal flavor to the already potent river mix. But in more happy news, we put the roof on the house today! Felt good to FINISH something. Not only that, but some thunderheads rolled in and dumped a load, which the tin sheeting we just put up conveniently served to us. We collected several liters of potable water to replace the river beverage, all in the span of about 15 minutes. Welcome to the rainy season! Didn't have to water the garden today. And I had peanut butter on my pancakes for supper. Yep. I'm smilin'. Kinda funny, the things that humor us missionaries. I mean the things that keep us in humor...(I was going to say "good" humor, but CLEARLY that is something I lack.) And I'll leave it at that.

It seems Jeff would really like me to take over the garden. I can’t say I blame him, ‘cuase right now the only things taking over the garden are weeds! But that's okay, we'll take care of that in short order! The irrigation system presents some challanges at the moment though. But as soon as we get our new water tower up, we should have better pressure and be able to get dripper lines on everything. Right now only about half the garden is on drip lines and the rest has to be watered by hand. That will really be a chore once all the students are gone in about a week. However, the rainy season is starting so that will make things easier. I'm definitely looking forward to eating some more fresh garden produce! Sweet corn and tomatoes and green beans and watermelon. Oh yeah! Hopefully we'll be able to sell some in town to help support the school as well. That's the plan anyhow.