Words!

How do I describe today and still do it justice? For I'm at the end of my 3rd day in Guatemala and I am completely exhausted and don't have the energy to blog. We began this day at 6:30a with breakfast, then a devotional at 7p before leaving for San Lucas to tour the water facility there. Then, after the tour, the 'work' began!! Up until now, my time in Guatemala had felt more like a luxury vacation. Seriously, Antigua is amazing and I have instantly fallen in love with this town and it's people. Our work today split us into 3 groups and my work site is a new church in San Maria and I spent most of that time building support beams to hold the cement and cinder-blocks until the cement dries. My favorite task was chiseling holes on the outside to support an exterior frame. Half way through, I asked the other 6 on my team if they were concerned that I was the one responsible for the 'support beams' - quite scary if you ask me, not sure I'd give myself such a task!!! But, I was with a young man named Benjamin who definitely knew what he was doing. He was fun to work with and we helped each other learn some English/Spanish words in the process. I was frustrated that I had forgotten so much, not that I really, ever knew the Spanish language in the first place. I know the work, and experience bridged the language barrier today with the men and women we were helping, but it's still those darn 'words' that would make things so much easier...I'm learning the basics, still, 21years after my first Spanish course. Por que?