San Luis

One of the first thoughts we had after arriving in Santiago Chile was where do we go from here? Maipú was our first direction, then to find the church in San Luis. As we looked upon our job site our first reaction was; we don't have as much work to do as we first thought. How mistaken can we be? After a thorough walk through we found more, not less work we had to do. Our work load had just about doubled! Instead of one small classroom, we now had two to do. Add on the fact that three of the old classrooms had to have complete new ceilings, wiring and paint and, well, the job was really starting to grow.
That same day we got to meet the hired crew that was working on the project also. The hired Chilean workers were not Christian and spoke no English. We spoke a little Spanish but construction terms were very limited. The hired hands, usually three or four, had some previous experiences working with "gringos" and that was not good. It took about four days before there was a trust bond between us. Some of our Chilean friends also worked along side and made for some fun times, especially for the younger folks. Some of our younger females (20-30yrs) were shown some dance steps and other such fun stuff as they were working(?).
Our vision clinic really started out with a bang. The small Highline team started training our Chilean friends and met a couple of our interpreters. Everyone caught on as we knew they would and our clinic was up and ready to go. Our estimates are around 1350 people through and a little over 1000 of those needing some sort of vision care. Hopefuly we will have pictures posted after this weekend. We are receiving request for our return and have some working on that even now.
I'm rambling so I will stop for now. Thanks for all the prayers.
Love in the Lord,
John