Today was fire day. When we cleared Barrett's property earlier in the week, we had made some giant piles of wood, and when I say Giant I mean 20 feet long, 10 feet wide, and 5 feet high of just wood. Today we had to burn all this wood. No one got burnt in case you were wondering. But we had these giant piles and had to start fires in them, its not nearly as easy as it sounds. It would take 5 people on each fire we would start, each pile would have 5 fires going on it in the end. Eventually the fires got large enough that they had white burning coals on the bottom and would burn anything above them. In fact the fire is still burning now, 9 hours after we started them. Barrett gave me the update that the piles are almost gone, by tomorrow morning they should be completely burned to the ground. Barrett said it would take him and someone else 2 weeks of now stop work to do what we did today. When we arrived it actually started raining, and if it rained it would have prevented us from starting any fires. But I asked Alex to pray to have God hold the Heavens back, and during her prayer it was raining, but the moment she said Amen, it completely stopped raining. And I mean not a drop fell until way after lunch and the fires were completely established, in fact the rain was completely welcomed.
Now when I say rain I mean rain. This was a very quick, short lasting tropical storm that was extremely windy and extremely wet. But during this tremendous storm God did something amazing. We always have our lunch on the back of Barrett's truck and today we had a little more akward schedule with lunch. First 15 people ate, then after they were done the last 5 ate. Well 3 of them were sitting on the tailgate and after eating they felt called to move from the tailgate so they did. Not less than 2 minutes later a 40 foot plus tree broke off of a larger tree and smashed the pack of the pickup. The photos are unbelievable. The good news is no one is hurt and everyone was far from the accident, but it took a while to chainsaw that tree into sections, and then drag them downhill to the burning piles. After it happened we immedietly prayed and thanked God for our safety.
Tomorrow looks like a fun day, we wanted to give the long term staff here a little break, so we will be babysitting their children and some of the team will be going to a National park with them to go see some monkeys. Other students will go surfing with the Men, (while 2 of the long term females will be getting spa treatments) and the rest of the team will be going to Ronnie's house to do some construction there. Please pray for a great day.
Our devotions are going wonderfully, we only have 3 people left to share. So thats it for tonight, until next time.
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