What a Day!! - Friday

Today was filled with all kinds of excitement for me. When we got to the church this morning we heard that they were going to try our their new bread ovens. They are going to bake coconut bread to sell. We kept going into the church kitchen to watch the women make the bread - flour, sugar, yeast, and coconut milk. They shaved the coconut meat and then squeezed the milk out of it. Then in a huge pot/pan they stirred it together. The dough was rolled out into long loaves probably 5 feet long. They were put out on wooden tables to rise. A couple of hours later they came back and cut the loaves into smaller pieces to shape into rolls. The rolls were allowed to rise. The rolls were put onto pans and put into their new ovens. No way to adjust a fire oven so the first rolls had some burned outsides and doughy insides. I had a roll, and it was very good.

The next great thing that happened was the covenant being signed between the Moskito Moravian Church and Pines Presbytery. Pastor Venegas and I signed an English document for me and a Spanish one for him.

Some of the children were hanging around so we had them put the labels on the bottles. They always have such a great time doing that. They made a daisy chain for us to use for the dedication Sunday.

But maybe the greatest thing today was drinking that first cup of water that was purified. Eddie and Raymond (the operators), Willoughby, and our group all toasted the first taste of water. I must say that I had tears in my eyes and a lump in my throat. I have been on several trips but have never lead one so this one is incredibly special to me. I know that I have learned so much from Danny and Karen Logan and John Guice which helped me prepare and know what to do once I got here.

Raymond on left and Eddie on right - operators