Men At Work

 Rocky spends a great deal of his time drawing plans for projects.  He sits at the table and draws out what a project will look like and then makes a list of supplies so the work can begin and move ahead in a timely fashion.  One project he and Manny have been working on is the plan for a pool at the mission site.  The average temperature here is somewhere between 28 and 35 degrees Celsius plus humidity!  And that is in the shade.  So a pool for teams to cool off in would be a huge blessing. 
As Rocky and Manny discussed the plan, they talked about needing to bring in a back hoe or some other equipment to do the digging as the soil here is like clay and full of rocks.  Well, yesterday the machine  arrived in the form of 35 men from Sepalau!  Mission2Guatemala is currently working on a water system for this community where during the dry season they have to walk between 1 and 1.5 hours to find decent water.  Manny was talking with one of the men from the community about the pool project and he said he wanted to help.  These men volunteered to come out in the heat and move earth! 

 They accomplished in one day what it would have taken us, with a machine a few days to do.   Incredible!  And, they were happy to do it!   

By the end of the day you could "see" the pool taking shape.  It is still a long way from being finished, but thanks to this group of men, we are that much closer to the goal - to have a place for teams to cool off and a place to teach local kids how to swim. 
It really is amazing what can be accomplished when God's people get together and help one another.  Watching them work yesterday was a picture of what being in community is all about.  When one person has a need, the rest come and help to meet that need.  We are helping them accomplish something out of their grasp and in turn, they helped us with something out of reach for us.