Saturday - Day 12 Thank you for your continue prayers. We still need prayer for the approvals for certain authorizations. Thursday we were told that "the problem" would be resolved. Then Friday, we were told there was a new law that required signature by the neighbors to give their approval. This was new to all of us for no one ever mentioned it before. That was taken care of on Friday and Sat. and so now we pray that we can go and get the necessary authorizations. Many of these matters are not small matters and every seemingly little thing that has to be done is a major answer to prayer. You'll just have to trust us for we can't go into great detail on many of these matters. Continue to pray, God is helping!

Friday and Saturday amidst cold weather and some snow, work continued. The men are continuing to pour columns, build forms and lay the metal rebar in place. A load of wood was brought for the support poles to hold up the second floor concrete. When this is poured, we will have to keep the support poles there for 21 days before they can be removed. So although there appears to be little visible work done, there is a lot of preparatory work that has to be done in order to pour the stairs and second floor.

It was cold Saturday, about 18 - 20 degrees F as we began work. The man whose expertise is metal was there working with the metal rebar without gloves. I lived 2 years in Russia but that got my attention. The men have worked real hard and we thank God for the Contractor who we were able to get. He is doing a great job.

Sorry about not having pictures. I tried 3 times and was not able to upload any onto the web. Normal living in a foreign country. God bless and have a great Lord's Day!