Thanksgiving in Puerto Maldonado

Posted on November 29, 2011 by wp@admaster

Here are some pho­tos of our won­der­ful Thanks­giv­ing this year. We had so much to be great­full to God for. He has blessed us tremendously.

Mother Ines´ mother sent us wonderfully appropriate napkinsThe sister´s have a won­der­full way with mak­ing hol­i­days and holy days spe­cial events where every­body feels an appre­ci­a­tion for what we are celebrating.

Our din­ner of Turkey, stuff­ing, har­vard beets, mashed potatos and green beens

The meal was a group effort. Mother Ines made the stuff­ing, Eliz­a­beth (a peru­vian from Puerto mak­ing a “pre-experience” with us made the mashed potatos, Sr. Mary Therese made the har­vard beets, Lorena (who is columbian and mak­ing an expe­ri­ence with us) made the green beens, and I, Fr. Isaac made the turkey (fol­low­ing mom´s direc­tions and with a lit­tle help from Sr. Mary Therese. It was all deeeeeliscious!

   

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Latest Advances on the Construction

Posted on November 25, 2011 by wp@admaster

The new bridge helps us and the mate­ri­als for the con­struc­tion get to the land faster and cheaper. It is the longest bridge in Peru and Fr. Isaac blessed it dur­ing its con­struc­tion. No lives were lost, praise the Lord.

This will be the sister´s tem­po­rary hous­ing until thier mod­ule is built. It is a bun­galo style and will be used for guests in the future.

This is our new road which was needed because the soil tends to turn into jello when the heavy rains come and then no vehi­cles can safely enter.

These our our well dig­gers who should be fin­ish­ing the 30 meter well in the next cou­ple of days so that we can have water.

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Working on the Land

Posted on October 30, 2011 by wp@admaster

Sis­ter Mary Therese tend­ing to a pot on the wood­burn­ing stove

As the con­struc­tion of our House of For­ma­tion for the broth­ers and the bun­galo where the sister´s will be tem­porar­ily housed are get­ting closer to com­ple­tion, we are get­ting more active in help­ing with the work on the land.

Fr. John Mary help­ing out with the cooking

 

Fr. Lucas emp­ties his wheel­bar­row that was full of concrete

The men have been help­ing with fill­ing and plac­ing bags filled with con­crete in order to pro­tect our river­bank from errosion. 

The bucket of cement passed down to the area to be protected

 

The bucket of concrete is finally carried to be emptied into the bags and placed on top of one another to form the protective wall 

We are call­ing the prop­erty where we are con­struct­ing our for­ma­tion house,  “Nazareth on the River­bank” as it will be a place of silence, of reflec­tion, and grow­ing in fam­ily rela­tions. We pray for the inter­ces­sion of St. Joseph every day that our house may be well con­structed and  with a beau­ti­ful sim­plic­ity. We also pray that all of us involved, includ­ing our hired work­ers, will grow in sol­i­dar­ity, sac­ri­fice, and con­ver­sion of heart and that this house will be ever pleas­ing to God our Father.

Our roof is almost completed

This is a bun­ga­low under con­struc­tion where the sis­ters will live until thier for­ma­tion house is built.

  

Father Philip has recently arrived her in Puerto Mal­don­ado and we see him in the fol­low­ing pic­tures review­ing the progress in the construction.

Fr. Philip with our roofer, Sr. Alberto, with the fin­ished roof in the back­groud. A jog well done!Fr. Philip looks on the project to save the riverbank.Our roofer, Alberto relates the chal­lenges he faced in build­ing the roof to the sis­ters. The young girl in the pic­ture is Lorena who is Columbian and is dis­cern­ing a voca­tion with the sisters.The chick­ens have moved into thier new house before we have. The palm leaf thatch­ing for the roof makes it a cool place for them to live and pro­tects them from the wild cats who have killed var­i­ous hens.