Argentina: Days 3-4

I have a better idea now of what I will be doing for the duration of my trip. There are a lot of walls in this house that need to be sealed and painted, and some repairs that need to be done at the church. The church is about three blocks away from the house, and there are two major jobs that need to be done there. Most of the construction here is concrete and rock, and if it isn't sealed right, the humidity gets into the concrete and ruins the paint (The humidity here is high in the winter time, yesterday it was like 90%). In the bathrooms at the church this has happened, one of my jobs will be to scrape the walls in the bathrooms, seal them, and repaint them. There are also some windows that need repairing. I will be taking them apart and replacing the plastic that is in them.
I wish I could post pictures of what I am doing here, I thought that blogger would let me, but I have to have my own webspace to host the pictures, and everything that I tried to get wouldn't let me post files that big.
On Thursday I started pulling stuff out of the storage room on the patio. Because the house is in the city, the patio is actually part of the second story of the house (It sits on top of the living room). I painted some iron posts where Miles had built a small roof over part of the patio (to keep the metal from rusting) and I sealed and painted the inside of the storage room and painted the metal door. Yesterday (Friday) I spent all day cutting a pallet to fit in the storage room and putting some barrels of stuff on it (barrels that they pack their belongings in), and then I sealed and painted the whole patio.
Most of what I will be doing for the rest of my time here will involve painting in the house. We will build shelves in the storage room to store stuff in, but that will be done by Monday. Miles told me that he spent two months working on this house every day to get it to the point it is at now, and then he got swamped with stuff to do at church, so the rest of the work has not been able to get done. The stuff that I am doing is stuff that he would have done eventually, but my being here and working by myself frees up time for him to focus on the church and family things more.
In about an hour we're going to the mall to do an activity with the youth, I will post again in a day or two.