Today we awoke a little later than usual as we decided we really didn't need to get to the Church site before the villagers arrived. When we finally picked up the women, we learned they had been waiting on us for approximately 25 minutes. They weren't aware that we planned to be late this morning. After breakfast and devotions, plus some good fellowship, we headed for the site. We started the day by tying up some more trusses. Everyone worked very hard and much was accomplished. We went to lunch about 1:30 P.M. hoping to fit into the villager's schedule a little better. After lunch, we played the Un-game again and then headed back to the site. We finished up the trusses and helped put some forms up. Later we mixed concrete and carried it up to fill the forms. We didn't stop work until we had mixed all the concrete pile and filled the forms. By this time, it was nearly 5:00 P.M. The men decided to head for the swimming hole again for a much needed bath, but first we had to return to our home for a change of clothes. When we arrived home, we found the door locked, but Carlos opened a window with my driver's license and we were able to get our clean clothes. After the trip to the swimming hole we felt so much better.

We then headed back to the bus for supper. Earlier I had asked one of the village women to wash my clothes as I was running out of clean ones. On our way back to the bus, I noticed my clothes on the line and I was really happy about this. She had hand-washed my clothes in the river as was their way since they had no washing facilities.

After supper, members of the church gave us a welcome party. We had the party at the bus as they didn't have a good place for us in the village. We sat around two campfires and sang and enjoyed some good fellowship with the Mexican people. The pastor welcomed us on behalf of the entire congregation here in San Lorenzo. He also thanked us for our physical and financial assistance. We popped corn and everyone enjoyed this very much. The people from the village then presented us with some treats they had prepared. We enjoyed a form of sweet bread along with a hot drink, which was very good. There were two different kinds of hot drinks, one was made from rice and sugar and I'm not sure what the second one consisted of but this was somewhat bland and they added sugar to this drink and it tasted somewhat like vanilla pudding. It was pretty funny how the young girls flocked around some of us guys; the ones that made tortillas and played "repeat after me." It was difficult because I couldn't even communicate with them. I really had to be careful what I said. Later, Charles, Loretta, Bill, Nancy plus a few others of our group kidded and laughed about it. Charles told us he didn't bring his marriage book with him, but Nancy reminded us that the Mexican Pastor could do the job just fine! We finally headed home after leaving the ladies off at the village. Fred was ill and we all hoped he would get better.