In reply to Brian Fahs.

The Mayans are all about indirect communication like that, but in this case, that's not the situation. They started working on it about a week before I left... in fact, I even helped them some. I am going to a do a whole post about the construction once the house is complete, because there was a lot of dodgy architecture going on, and that's one of my favorit things to observe in Guatemala. The house appears to be for Nas Palas himself. His family has about 20 people living in three rooms, and I think he's getting tired of sleeping on two planks between a pair of chairs. He would never mention it in front of us, but we gather from accumulated data and second hand sources that the house we live in now was HIS bedroom until we arrived in the village.