2 Cor 5:14a....

"El amor de Cristo nos obliga"

"For Christ's love compels us"

So tonight was staff bible study and we talked about what motivates us. 2 Corinthians 5:14 what definitely a verse that stuck out to me. Christ's love has to be what compels me. Please pray that my motives stay focused on Christ. 

The new teams arrived on Monday and went through their orientations yesterday so therefore today was the first full day at the sites. Today also happened to be the hottest day yet that I have experienced. I have 5 students (1 from Bakersfield, CA and 4 from Canton, Ohio) working at the construction site. The plan for this outreach is to continue to work on the house that is sponsored by the church as well as start construction on the basketball court at the Base. Today I worked with the Dominican crew laying block while the students and Jose went and picked up 2 loads of dirt from the Church. The dirt was brought to the house so we could level out the floors of the house before we pour the concrete. Getting the dirt took the first half the day. Near the end of lunch one of the guys started complaining of dizzyness as well as numbness in one of his legs. Long story short he ended up getting worse and worse to where we decided to send him to the clinic. It ended up being that his blood sugar had shot up (over 350). He was about to go into a coma when he got to the clinic so at that point they rushed him off to the hospital and he was admitted into the ICU. Thankfully he is stable now, they are keeping him overnight and hopefully by mid-day tomorrow he will be back at the base. He most likely has diabetes. Please keep him in prayer. He name is Justin. 

Over the weekend I decided that I needed to make more of an effort to learn spanish. I had looked into getting Rosetta Stone Language Software (the best computer software for self-teaching a language) awhile ago and I decided to revisit that idea. Since my sister Janine wanted to learn spanish as well so she can teach her son Wesley I decided it was worth the investment to buy the program and have it shipped to me down here. I am totally excited to get started and I think it will make a huge difference to start the program while I am down here. Please pray that I stay motivated to learn. 

Well it is getting late here and tomorrow will be another long day...

Thanks for your prayers....

~Jeff 

Gloria a Dios