Beet Red!

Today was the hottest day we have had so far, and needless to say, we are all feeling it a little bit. We started the day off by waking up early for breakfast at 8:00. We (the girls) then proceeded to Virgin de la Paz to do some visiting and the boys went to pick up materials for roofing/building walls. Virgin de la Paz is a shanty-town that has been around for about twenty years. All of the houses are in various stages of being built, from plywood walls and woven roofs, to adobe brick houses, to more finished looking houses. We went to meet two different women who we would be doing the work for. The first house we went to had adobe brick walls, but no walls on the inside, and the roof was only held up by a few not very sturdy looking poles. There are seven people who live in this house. In the second house that we went to, we met Rufina, who is a single mother of four. Her eldest son is severly handicapped and rarely gets to leave the house. In both cases, we will be building new roofs, and in the first house we will be putting up some walls on the inside of the house. After we met with these two ladies we got to go out and play with the kids. We played volleyball and jax, and just hung out. After the materials were brought to the houses, we left and went over to visit people in Serra Pon, another community in Chiclayo. We went and visited Beto, and talked about our plans for teaching a week of vacation Bible school in the Las Brisas church. We then went and visited a woman named Shirley, whose husband had been helping us with building materials earlier. We heard their stories and talked about vacation Bible school. On our way home for lunch, we stopped and helped some people lay bricks to make a wall, we got to mix the mud with our bare hands and help with laying the bricks. After spending all morning and early afternoon in the sun, we headed home for lunch. We all drank about five glasses of water each when we got home, and were beginning to see our sunburns coming out. Parker looks like he is wearing a white muscle shirt he is so red. Anyway, we have had a significant amount of aloe treatments to help cool us off. I am still asking myself, how does a person go about getting a sunburn while wearing 45 SPF sunscreen. In the afternoon, after showers, we headed over to the mission house for their weekly prayer meeting and Bible study. We then came home and had some relaxation time before supper time. It was really fun, we had some good laughs. After supper we played games and just hung out. It was nice to have a bit of a break after a hard day of work. Please pray that all of our building projects would go according to plans, and that we would continue to build our relationships with the people we have met. Thanks for all your prayers.

Lindsay for those who are slightly more than sunkissed (Team Peru)