We got an early start Thursday morning trying and beat the heat. Only problem was that the heat beat us to the job.
It didn't take the team long to finish the rest of the concrete though, and while the guys cleaned up the equipment, I took the ladies back to the dorm so they could clean up and prepare for VBS.
Scott and Joey had already started "washing" the well and it looked like things were going good.
The whole well washing process was new to me but here's the way it works. A steel claw screws onto the two inch PVC pipe. Water is pumped by a gasoline motorized pump that attaches to the opposite end of the PVC. With a half twist motion the pipe makes it's way little by little into the ground. Barring no rocks get in the way as the pipe goes down more pipe is attached.
The guys allowed me to get a feel for it.
These guys were good and at around 15 feet they hit water. Going down another 6 feet or so they found solid rock and thus a well was born. Soon clear water was flowing from La Montanita's first encased well.
This may have been the first well around that didn't have to be hand dug but I'm sure it won't be the last.
Another job well done by the team from Wynne, Arkansas.
Tomorrow I'll update you on the final events of our last day in the San Marcos region of Guatemala.
Go with God always,
Lewis and Donna
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