So no new news on the Borehole. We started the day trying to lift up the tank stand. It was a cold rainy morning. No one was especially excited about what was before us, but with a few motivational words we all started lifting. It took a couple of hours, lots of chatting in foreign languages, and about a hundred different ideas. One broken rope and a couple dozed 6" nails, and one close call later, we had er up. there was much celebration. Daniel did some welding and is now rock solid. I went to the top tonight to see how shaky it was. it didn't move a bit. I'll get the tank up next week. Oh yeah, one last trip to lusaka to get a few things.
(This excerpt was borrowed from Zack's blog. Just to give you a little background the past couple weeks Daniel, a friend of Hope Ministries from Lusaka, has come to help weld and put together the water tower stand that will hold a tank to supply the orphanage with water. This is a massive structure was assembled by the tool shed, then moved about 200 yards to a location by the guesthouse. Now remember there are no machines in Zambia so it took over 35 men (this things weighs a LOT) and a truck to move it from the shed to the guesthouse. Then the following morning it needed to be hoisted up onto the cement footings. WHAT A PROCESS TO THINK THROUGH with no machines. I watched, video taped, and prayer that the structure would not fall on anyone during the event.)
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