Construction projects

Our light construction projects included building walls, making windows for a dormitory and an addition to Jairo and Deborah's house. They are the missionary couple that lives in the village where we worked at.The ladies of our team got to learn how to use a saw. Our measuring had to be correct or we had to start over. Several of us had to make repeats. The ladies of the team did a lot of nailing--we did what the guys did but we were slower.  The Brazilian construction crew and our group worked well together. Most of the Brazilian team knew some English plus we used lots of hand signs.  Very thankful that the teams had patience with each other. Part of the Brazilian team worked on building the bathrooms for the dormitory the other half started framing the addition to the house plus putting on roof. On Day three and four, we framed walls and put boards on the walls. Day five was Sunday. We went to church -in the morning and evening. Day six, we continued to put up boards on the dormitory. Late in the afternoon, we started putting slats on the boards.  Slats are a thin narrow flat strip which covered the holes between the boards. We completed putting the slats up on the dormitory. The Brazilian team continue to work on bathrooms plus started to hang doors. Late afternoon our team started working on the addition. Day seven we all worked on the house addition.  We helped frame windows, frame walls, plus put boards on the walls.  On Day eight, the Brazilian team continue to put up doors on addition and dormitory. Our mission team wen to a school to put on a VBS.

One member of our team was sick for two days. The Parkers thought she had heat stroke. We worked in 90 plus temperatures everyday. It did not cool down much in the evening. The evening that we headed back to base camp, we had a thunderstorm and rain. It was loud plus down pouring rain. This was the afternoon and evening of Day 8.