Still fighting the rain

Hello everyone,
It has been a while since our last update. Last week was spent on the island of Cebu playing basketball around Cebu City. We played two games a day with the first game being in the morning against a college team and the evening game being against a barangay. A barangay is a little community and there were usually more people at these games so the message was geared more towards the fans. During the college games the massage was more for the players. There is a blog at buhaysports.blogspot.com that will give you a day by day account of this trip.
We started this week working out at Tanza again. We found that the cement that we poured before we left had solidified so it was all set for the water tower to be put in the air. We ran into a problem however when it started to rain once again and seeing how it is not safe to weld in the rain we worked on a different project. We started digging on the water trench behind the building out there to help divert water around the house and not though the house. On our way out, we did some planning for a bridge across the creek so that it is passable when the water gets higher during rainy season.
Tuesday we were able to get the welding to the point that it is time to move it outside to location. Once again it decided to rain again today so we worked on the bridge. We were able to position some cement tubes next to some big rocks there were already there and by adding a couple more rock we were able to go the width of the creek. This allows a walk way that is a couple feet above the one prior which will hopefully provide a passage when the water is up. Planning for the future and knowing we will be welding outside and the possibility of rain, we hung a tarp over where the tower is going to be to provide some temporary shelter.
Things are going smooth considering all the rain we have been getting. The three of us are looking forward to our last days here and anxious to see what we can get done if the weather would happen to clear up. It is hard to believe that our five weeks over here is about up. We look forward to seeing you all again when we get back though.

God bless,
Trevor, Devin, Drew

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