As usual at morning prayer, we use a Gospel reading selected as topical to missionaries. Had we been using the readings of the day, the first would have been Acts 32-37.
The interior courtyard is already filling with stacks of lumber in various stages of production. We start stacking beams on a temporary rack built across the drainage trench around the central part of the courtyard. As the stack gets taller, one of our group stands on the rack to place lumber. The rack's cross-pieces are 2x4s, and laid flat, not on edge; it's under-engineered and collapses.
No injuries.
The replacement bearing is in the planer, but now another one is failing.
At lunch, we're amazed to again see chicken. This time it's served with rice and a salad of tomato and cucumber. For dessert, cantaloupe. Sweet, juicy cantaloupe.
After work we stop in at the Comedor El Paso Texas, a local bar, to introduce our new missionaries to Gallo Beer.
Your actual beer-drinking experience may vary.
The El Paso looks to have been constructed of scrap lumber and beer posters. The posters indicate that a bottle of Gallo costs 7 Quetzales. That's must just be a suggested retail price; the proprietress charges 8 Quetzales. Her entire inventory of cold drinks doesn't fill a small refrigerator. One of our group orders the Coke, literally the only one in stock. There are posters for Limonada, but there's none. The proprietress does appreciate our business (at that moment we're the only people in the bar) and pours out a few bags of chips for us. For entertainment, she sends over her young grandson(?) who practices his card tricks on us. Looking out the open door, we see a woman walk by with a pig on a leash. Not long after, another woman walks by with a pig on a leash. And soon after, there's a third. It must be Pig Night at some other cantina.
That night our group's Evening Prayer service includes our saying the Magnificat, though one member of the group is changing it to "inclusive language" on the fly. At least s/he isn't doing it through a sound system, like the last two pastors would for the Creed at Sunday Mass at St. Al's.
High-laire juxtaposition of bar images.
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