Nicaragua LWI-Day 2-Monday. What a great day we had to start our work! The sun came up early as Nicaragua is not on day light savings time. Everyone started getting up at 5:30 AM. We had our daily devotion at 6:30 and breakfast at 7:00. We loaded supplies for drilling in a pick-up truck and loaded ourselves into the van and we were off for the drill site which was about 75 minutes away at a village that was off the main roads quite some distance in the midst of plantain and sugar plantations. The villagers were waiting for us to arrive and greeted us warmly. We spent some time introducing ourselves and shortly got to work. 7 of us started mixing the mud and readying the mud pits for drilling. The rest of the time went with Scarlet the LWI hygiene coordinator and gave the first hygiene lesson to about 20 women regarding the importance of washing hands and keeping cooking utensils germ free. At 11:30 we stopped and broke for lunch. After 30 minutes for lunch we resumed our work. We found water at 20 feet and again at 50 feet. We continued to drill down to 95 feet hoping we would find another aquifer but did not and stopped. We pulled the pipe up breaking each 5 foot section and getting muddy water all over ourselves. The hygiene team taught a Bible lesson after the kids returned from school regarding the Samaritan Women at the Well. Bernie played Jesus. It was 3 PM by the time we finished all this and it was time to clean up the site and start our return trip to the LWI compound by 3:30. The day was filled with many God-moments and some of those follow along with some pictures from the village. It stayed dry all day and we were blessed to be here. Dave Yes, we all got up with the sunrise around 5:30 with light streaming in! After a rousing sing along led by Peter and Naicy, a so tasty breakfast by our hospitable hosts, and an interesting ride to our site, we were ready to get muddy! Most of us have never worked on a well, for charity or at a job, so there was a learning curve. In short order the men of the village were involved, and many hands make for short order. The soil is a gardener's dream, so rich with nutrients, as the village is under sea level. We passed cemetaries that reminded us of New Orleans, above ground. WE could see Lake Nicaragua only one street away, and we walked to it after our muddy day. We estimate that it is at least 5 miles wide and 15 miles long, but it is bigger, The volcanoes around the lake probably made such rich soil when they erupted in pasat centuries. The flora and fauna is so dense where we are drilling, and tropical fruit trees are so abundant. Mary