Nuestras dias son poco+we will be adding pictures later!

Only a few days left for some; Michael, Kane, Jason and Keri all are leaving within the following week. The days have moved slow, but the weeks have passed quickly. After this week everything we sought to do here has been accomplished. A couple of days ago, we were able to move forward in the hospital. You all know that this has been a source of frustration for us, but finally everything has fallen in to place. Sometimes, our patience has failed us, but we are proven to be small in our understanding of the grander scheme. Just because things were not going the way that we wanted them too, didn’t mean that they weren’t going to happen at all. So here is a not too exciting re-cap of our week…
We had been waiting for our friend Don Amado to build a metal platform to hold the water tanks. Waiting for about one month to be exact. Little did we realize the monstrosity of a platform that he was creating. My jaw dropped to the ground as soon as I saw the 20-foot jungle gym of metal. It is said to be considered the 8th wonder of the world, believe it! So our next obstacle was transporting the thing about 1.5 miles to the other side of town. Doesn’t seem like much right? Well, I missed the first attempt to move it. Apparently it was hitting the electrical wires above the streets and so they had to turn around. The second attempt, they got a flatbed truck and with about 20 men they tilted the thing on to the back of the flatbed. It was a rather scary thing to watch them move the structure which weighs who knows how much. (The pictures will helpfully give you a good idea.) But the move was successful. While driving through the streets of Uspantan, we were quite the spectacle. All of us rode on the truck with la estructura making sure that we didn’t hit anything. Seeing as both sides of it stuck out about 2 feet this was a rather important thing to be doing. I would love to be able to tell you that we didn’t hit anything during that short period of time, but than I would be telling you a mentira, a lie. The first thing that we scraped was the side of a microbus, it was hard to watch happen but there was not much that we could have done. The men on the bus just kept yelling to move on, move on; it was at this point that our emotions began to turn. Right after we left a foot long scrape in the side of the bus, we began approaching a very nice pick up truck. My stomach began to turn, because im pretty sure that the driver wasn’t aware of the approaching danger and there was no way for us to relay its immediacy. All we could do is stare as the back of the structure as it barely missed the silver ford truck; relieved and hopeful that the worse was over we stood and watched as yet another accident occurred. One of the extra helpers of the group whom was standing on the back of the truck jumped off quickly to make sure that the road was cleared. As he was walking the truck sped up because of a clear way, before anyone could say anything a part of the structure overhanging the truck connected with the head of the man while going 15mph. It sent him flying forward and us into a panic; I turned quickly and saw the man pick himself off the ground. His face was bloody and his glasses broken, a smaller additional truck, which was tailing us, picked him up and took a faster alternate way to the hospital. With our stomachs wrenched and gripping soley to the metal structure, we begin to hit and rub low power lines; some of the men were using their hands to lift them over the structure. Praise Jehovah that we weren’t electrocuted and that we found out later that the man that was hit was ok. What was left to do at this point was lift the structure and carry it over 100 feet. This was extremely difficult, when I looked up at Tyler all is saw after they put the structure on their shoulders was pure fright, I think their was some serious doubt in our boys that they would be capable of making this happen. The structure was lifted, welded, painted, the tanks put atop of, and shortly after we purified water. We will be spending the next few days going back and forth from the hospital to make sure all is working well and then we will be off to xela again. In xela we will be attending a Spanish school. After xela we will be going a beach called Monte Rico and then back to Louisville. The rest of our trip will be less work and more play, so we intend on paying the majority of its expenses from our pocket and save the rest of the money we raised for our next trip.