Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Nicaragua LWI-Day 4-Wednesday. We had an exciting day in Nicaragua with the team, the staff and the people near where we have drilled the well, taught hygiene and Bible lessons! Our hygiene team had a really fun day teaching the women and the kids about the 3 major food groups: fruits/vegetables, carbs, protein (colors depicted each: white, red and green). They had a craft teaching everyone about each color and food group for nutrition. After this lesson, they moved to the next lesson teaching everyone how to brush their teeth correctly to prevent cavities and good oral hygiene. They used a little puppet and two big sets of false teeth to make it a fun and interactive lesson and the kids loved it. Afterwards, everyone got toothbrushes and toothpaste, as well. Lastly, we had a great Bible lesson about Joshua and Jericho...everyone marched around a building seven times, blowing their paper horns and shouting at the top of their lungs, like the Israelites. In the lesson, everyone learned that trusting and obeying God is vitally important. From the well team, a huge praise: we hit one of the largest water sources that the team has ever seen...120 gallons per minute with the air compressor! Upon arrival at the well, we noticed how clean the water had turned that was being flushed out by the air compressor. We had a relatively easier day, with most of the major work of finishing the drilling and putting the casing together yesterday. Before lunch, we had a HUGE water fight with buckets and clean water!! Needless to say, we involved every man, woman and child in throwing as much cool, clean water being pumped through the well! Everyone was drenched, laughing, running around and having a great time for almost 45 minutes before lunch. Post-lunch, some of the guys made wooden-forms for the concrete pad that would surround the pump. After constructing the forms, we put it level and then the Nicaraguan people took over for the rest of the day! They mixed concrete and gravel together in a big mound called "the volcano", where they added water in the center of the mound and it looked like a big concrete "volcano!" Then, they added it and rebar to the forms and smoothed the concrete around the forms and up to the level of the forms. For dinner, our team joined the LWI staff for an unforgettable steak dinner out on the town in Granada. Everyone was stuffed and had a great night of fellowship! Dedication Day is tomorrow!

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