Good Morning from Costa Rica!
Ok so the heading says it all! We are in the middle of a very rainy season all across Costa Rica right now! The sun is usually out bright for a few hours or maybe even just an hour in the mornings then clouds and rain the rest of the day!
Yesterday started out nice and bright sun shiny! We are working on Cabin JOY by the way this cabin has the right name! It has been difficult to keep our JOY throughout this past 2 months! We actually were able to work on dry ground the first part of September and got the foundation poured for JOY!
We had rented the cement mixer for a month, now it will soon be 2 months and the floor isn't poured yet!
So yesterday morning the 2 guys who help us Jon and Luis and Franklin and I worked on installing drain tile around Cabin JOY and filling it all in. The mound of dirt in the middle needed spreading out so it is now packed down inside the footer and soggy soggy soggy!
As we worked we needed rock to fill in the drainage ditch. So we gathered rocks from around the construction on the closet hillsides, filling the back hoe bucket and dumping them in the sides of JOY!
As we worked I picked up a rock with a tiny snake under it! So we smashed it and kept going! We were moving some wood and a scorpion is on the side of a piece of wood I picked up! GOD is good and has kept us safe! Every time we have been in danger GODS hand just moves us right out of the way! GODS the best Father ever, HE really cares for us and keeps u safe every minute of every day! Exciting, never a dull moment!
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Okay, so that was only half our day!
At noon we came in ate a chicken salad sandwich and headed out to San Jose to pick up wood that had just arrived the past 2 days. We had to go over to Bethlehem, close to the airport. This is about an hour trip, took 2 hours because of traffic!
So we load the majority of the wood 2x8s, 2x10s and other sizes of wood for JOY! We get to the top of the Quitirrisi mountain and car side swipes our trailer! It is raining and dark, so we kept going, looked like he was fine!
As we crossed the mountain just getting ready to come down the other side we heard a noise, and pulled off, sure enough the idler pulley had come off, and the timing belt was off! Not going anywhere!
It has almost stopped raining thankfully by then, and we are in a spot that had plenty of room to pull the trailer and truck off safely! For those of you who have been here to Costa Rica know this is a miracle!
So we called the tow truck, we had just passed him as we were coming this way he was on his way to San Jose! So he had another truck coming in, they both reloaded, the first truck took our truck and hooked the trailer to the tow truck, and the other tow truck took the other cars! It is pitch dark, cars whizzing by and drizzling rain! Yes it was an experience!
Our pastor Olger and Guiselle his wife and 2 youth from our church Ricardo and Carlos came to see if they could help reload, thinking we'd have to unload into his truck! It is hard to find anyone who has a hitch and a vehicle big enough to hook to the trailer and pull it!
Thankfully the tow truck did have a hitch, and an hour after we broke down, loaded to the gills with wood both on the truck and trailer, Franklin was on his way in the tow truck, and I rode with our pastor. The Tow truck man kept the truck on the tow truck and the trailer at his house! Another miracle, no one has that much room at their home! He carried the truck to the mechanic this morning!
We had a taxi bring us home, well almost home!
We get down to the new road entrance and there is a small mudslide, so the taxi has a machete and they cut limbs enough for us to pass through! We get just inside the gate; another mudslide! This on had huge boulders, so there was no moving it! So we walked to last 1/4 mile to the house!
We were thankful to be home safely and GOD had provided marvelously all along the way! What a mighty GOD we serve!
Pray for Franklin today as he looks for the parts in San Jose and fixes the truck, to be able to bring our supplies home and get ready to build JOY!
JESUS BLESS YOU!
Franklin Evelyn Mary & James
