Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Nicaragua LWI-Day 3-Tuesday. Today was a very productive day. We had a great morning of devotion preparing for the day. After our last worship song, several members of the team continued singing the songs while walking through the house. The hygiene classes were a great success. We taught the women and children about Germ Transmition and how to prevent the spreading of germs. We also taught them about the signs of dehydration and a simple solution called the Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS). The solution is primarily used to rehydrate those who are sick with diahrea. Our morning session was a little discouraging because the class was half the size of our class yesterday, but the women who were there were very attentive and involved in the lesson. Our afternoon session was very encouraging. We started with the same amount of kids as yesterday, and as we started the lesson more kids continued to pour in. We ended up with twice the amount of children in our afternoon session than yesterday. At the end of the lesson, we all had great moments of laughter and play time as the day ended. The drilling team, had to enlarge the hole from a 4inch bore to an 8inch bore, and although they ran into many complications, they were able to put in a 7inch casing and develop the well by flushing it with air and water. It was a very muddy process, but turned out to be very successful. After a long working day, our Living Water team treated us to a nice walk around the community and a yummy "gelato", which means ice cream in Nicaragua. What a blessed day we all had!

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