we cannot believe that our work here has ended!! we have worked all day long for the past 6 days and it has just flown by! the day certainly ended with mixed feelings-- wow, did we accomplish alot and we are tired, but on the other hand, this was wonderful and we want to do more.....
as we walked around to look at each project, we were truly amazed at what God did--we did do alot of work, but it was God that made it all come together and He was the One who glorified Himself in it!!
as you remember, we had 3 projects to work on --the classrooms in the library, the storage room, and the rehabbing of the apartments. here´s the results of our labor:
the classrooms were all constructed--the dry wall is all in place and is taped and sanded and ready for paint. some of the sections were painted. all of the plastic was removed from the book shelves and the furntiure replaced. the furniture was dusted and cleaned and the floor cleaned and mopped. it looks great!!
the storage room, or bodego, was completed in the garage!! you would think that professional masons built this beautiful bodego. it has a doorway and looks great!
there are 3 apartments that were serviced.. tim and amanda´s apartment received: paint in the powder room, hemmed draperies in the dining/living room, curtains in the kitchen, curtain and sink skirt in the bathroom, curtains in timmy´s room, curtains and a duvet cover in tim and amanda´s bedroom, shortened curtains in shelby and kippy´s room, a newly constructed, freshly painted closet and refurbished bathroom (new fixtures and new paint) for the girls. in lora´s apartment: painted living/dining room, new curtains in 2 large windows, painted bedroom and 2 sets of curtains. in the 3rd apartment which was empty, it was totally transformed into a really nice living space. a new wall was built with a window, creating a kitchen/dining/living space, 2 bedrooms were dry walled and painted, with a closet built in, the bathroom was painted and new fixtures and vanity and medicine closet added.
tim was so grateful for all the work that was done--above and beyhond what he expected. he said he was very pleased with the quality of the work. we knew that it was God´s hand on ours...
the end is near and we are soooooo grateful to our Lord for all that He has done in and through us this week. we have learned more about what it is to be a servant. we learned that we can still give alot more... we learned that this experience builds faith... we saw how God can and did multilply the work of our hands... we saw how God was glorified in our actions, deeds, and prayers...
our devotions was in Phil 2 and how we should considers others better than ourselves and how we must imitate Christ´s humility. our attitudes must be right or else all the work we do is for naught. pastor talked about how we go on missions trips to bless them, and in the end we are so blessed by the experience....
tomorrow we will get to see a little bit of the costa rican country side.
God bless you for all of your prayers.
´david´
