Week 4

Joel got the seawall and gate done! It's working great and will make it a LOT easier to launch the boat.  

Joel's been working on gutters and Mark and Sarah have been painting trim, the cabana's are really looking great!

We borrowed a lawnmower and got the lawn all raked and mowed, it looks like a lawn now :)  

Friday night the youth group from the village came out for the weekend!  Friday night the boys went on a scorpion hunt with black lights - I believe they got 21 altogether. Joel really enjoyed this of course, it seemed like all the boys did ;)  

Saturday morning they were put to work before they could go swimming :)  They got some more dead trees cut down.....

........and hauled into the sea to float them away. 

We all worked on cleaning up the beach - pulling weeds, raking and hauling it all to the burn pile, and floating a whole bunch of the cut-down palm trees away (the boys didn't mind volunteering for this!)

Some of the girls posing :)

The beach looks AMAZING!

So clean!

There were about 20 kids that came out plus the youth leaders, the place was nice and full :)

Playing cat-and-mouse (good thing the lawn got mowed)

Saturday night we had church in the chapel here, Mark did praise and worship music (with Shannon on the water jug drum lol) and Joel shared our testimony and Shannon also gave a message. It was a really neat service. Fun fact: the night before they got a bunch of scorpions out of the chapel, and that night they found a boa! It was a little guy who was released without any harm :)  He was cool but I wouldn't mind if he went back to the jungle lol. 

It was fun to watch them all pile in one vehicle to get back to the village today - what a fun weekend!