After the hard week of work making the reservoir, I got up at 5 am on Saturday to work gathering the cornstalks that the rest of my team had cut down during the week. The family we were staying with uses the stalks to feed their cows during winter. So we got the corn field well before sunrise and gathered the stalks and loaded them into a tractor trailer (not a big rig, just a trailer for a tractor).
After about two hours the sun began to peek over the horizon and trailer looked like a gigantic bird’s nest with the corn stalks stacked high on all sides and a hole in the middle where we handed the stalks up. After packing two trailers up we headed home.
When we got home we had a break for breakfast then began to stack them in a huge teepee for storage. I was already beat after the mornings work so I took it a little bit easier in the second part of the work, but it was still much harder than I thought it would be.
Luckily, we were done for the day at noon. Sunday, I got the opportunity to share a short message at church and got to thank them for how they welcomed us in even though we were strangers.
The next three days God saw fit for us to rest because they were filled with cold rain, so we stayed in the house. The last part of the week we worked on putting gravel over the mud that surrounded the church and making concrete steps. We got to finish the pews and put them in the church in time for the service on Sunday.
Sunday, we left to go to the capital, Chisinau to rest and meet with Richard, who was our contact who set up our accommodations and ministry. It was great to get to spend a few days back in civilization before leaving for Africa.
After a short debrief in Bucharest, I will be leaving on the 30th to go to Africa. We will have short layovers in Istanbul, Turkey, and Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates before arriving in Johannesburg, South Africa. From there we are taking a bus for approximately 1000 miles to Malawi. The whole trip we are estimating to take around 3 days so we could defiantly use some prayers during this time.
