1 Week Down.

God has done such an incredible job this week. Yes,

 I know He does this every week, but for me this week

it was so clear as He sustained us so beautifully through 

the first week of construction at En Gedi.

I am Praising Him! that its the weekend, but am excited

to see what the coming weeks will bring too.

Onto the pictures... Lots of pictures

 There is a little 'catchment' area for flooding and it

was full of bush so this week, that was all taken

down so they could mark out the back wall of our lot.

And now we can see the neighbors :)

 they started digging the side wall

 steel was laid in for support.

 lots of pick axing was done to get through the

rough Jamaican dirt.

 They went 2 foot deep for the footers.

That's a lot of pick axing that happened 

this week.

by today (Friday) the side wall was all dug out,

and steel in place. Next week we (and by we I mean them :) 

 will be ready to pour the footers and start laying block.

 When we bought the property there were 2 HUGE

plants that were full of wasps, and right in the line

of where the front wall needed to be. So they had

to come out. (Praise Jesus because I wanted them 

gone any way.) These were NOT easy to get rid of

It took 3 days just to chop them down (with a machete)

(Yes, there is already a front wall, but the college, that we bought

the property from, put the front wall on government land. So we

will have two front walls. That way if the government ever decides to 

work on the road in front of our house, and have to tear down that 

front wall then we will still have our front wall on our property)

 2 truck loads were filled to carry it away most of it.

We had a worker work for two more days filling wheel

barrow fulls to go dump in the bush behind the property.

 this plant had branches as thick as 

a tree.

 the root system of the plant they had to

get through to dig footers for the front wall.

 trying to pick axe through the roots

 Success!

 this week we also had to have

an electrician come in and put in 

a temporary pole. Since the house

has been disconnected for over a year

the power company requires an inspector

to come make sure everything is okay

before they turn the power back on.

in the past year new regulations have

also been put in place. So we needed

to get a new pole and move the meter

up by the road. Lord willing

we will get the inspector there next week

to approve us so we can get electricity back

to the property.

Prayers appreciated as we continue this project!