We arrived in the morning to still running pump, realizing that the well produces more than the 10 gallons per minute capacity of the pump. We lifted the tank and finished the plumbing including a connection for the future church building and a spout to draw water from.
The church's pastor, and an inner circle of the leadership came to pray for the well, the local church growth, the CHE communities, and LBC and its teams. They invited us to a celebration at their church building.
While the well drilling team was resting the ladies lead the kids in a final Bible school. After some interesting conversations with the locals, which were challenging because of my five word vocabulary in Spanish, about living conditions, prices of education, and buildings in Guatemala, the US and Austria, I explored the area around the church. I found a lot of wonderful views and beautiful vegetation of God's creation.
The ladies were blessed with over 80 kids who were tentatively listening to their stories and enjoying the creative crafts.
The service was very interesting, as I was not used to everybody shouting prayers and thanksgivings to God simultaneously. The pastor of the church told us the journey of his church from having no church or water to the point of receiving both within the same year through God's provision. After some exhortation by Mike, Hugo Sr., and Abel the church honored Mike and the team with a diploma.
Since Bill misunderstood Junior we thought we were stranded without navigators/drivers back from the village to the hotel in San Marcos. Mike, Dave, and I took the challenge upon us and we found way during the 20 min drive in the dark back by combining our memory of interesting buildings, street signs and colorful looking tombs. 15 minutes later our translators arrived at the hotel and were surprised that we left without them and that we actually made it in one piece back to the hotel.
We are planning on going to a different village tomorrow, to which Mike and a team traveled a few years ago.
It will be hard to leave the friends we made this week behind as we heading back home soon.
-Emanuel
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