Thursday

Today was another full of great things and miracles. We had all the ditches open and we installed a lot of conduit in them for wires to be pulled in starting tomorrow. The day started out again with a bang as we checked the gas stove for leaks and found one in a line from one of the burner controls. We thought we fixed it but we ended up almost catching the place on fire again. So we yanked the stove out and threw it on the truck to take it out to the ranch. The most amazing thing is that the container that was opened and emptied yesterday had two new gas stoves in it. The Murcotts only knew one of these was coming out here and to find out that there was a replacement for the defective guest house stove in the container that was packed months ago and had been sitting in port for the last two months. This is amazing to us to know that our God knew we would need this stove long before we got here and He made the provision for it. This is how He has been teaching us daily to trust Him to meet our needs here. We are running conduit and we keep finding out that we are missing some essential components, but every time so far we have been frustrated with that, we have searched through existing supplies and been able to improvise with parts that have been here long before we have. So, we are learning to commit our ways to Him who knows the end from the beginning. The pictures today are just a few showing some of the conduit in the ditch, the improvised Toyota Conduit Bender, etc. Tomorrow we are hoping to give you the perspective of the women who have been feeding us and caring for our needs while the rest of us have been working on electrical projects. The bulldozer and backhoe have been very busy and the equipment God has provided for this facility is just amazing.