We started out the morning pretty normal. Tricky ate his peanut butter, jelly, and egg sandwich. We had a very short devo. The group was able to raise another $250 to give to the Santa Anna youth group so that they could have a youth get together, something that doesn't ever really happen. *Big shout out to Chad for making that happen* And after devo we loaded the buses, 2 groups went to build, a group went to Santa Anna to paint, and a group went to begin our medical clinic.
Cassidy has an infected bug bite. But she keeps going!
*Leanne and Matt don't worry she is okay
I'm not sure how this is a good sandwich but he eats them.
I was on a house build, I know shocking.
The build was located out in Santa Anna...which we knew would mean rocks. However, we did not realize just what that really meant for us. Our sight was literally a large pile of rocks....on top of a bolder.
The build site. Like I said 1 or 2 rocks.
Christian working on cutting out a bolder so we could put a post here.
The view from the build site.
It took us till after 12:00 just to get all of the posts in so that we could begin to put up the walls. Part of the reason it took so long was that the house was not the normal measurement, we had to make a 14x16 instead of a 16x16 because the space was smaller. It also was difficult because when you are chipping away at a bolder moving a hole an inch or two requires ALOT more work then normal. A third thing that caused it to take longer was the fact that we also had to pour concrete into the post holes to be sure that we had a strong foundation. Luckily, we had an amazing team, who waited patiently.
Patty did manage to find one hole with dirt!
Once we had all the boards in everyone worked extremely hard and the house began to go up in no time. I was able to work on putting up the high wall and climbing the side. I always love putting that in because it scares my mom. Don't worry mom, I am okay. Tricky also had me cut out the door and Chris had me cut out a window. I am getting better and better at using the chainsaw, but I still prefer to have their assistance.
When your little sometimes you get stuck being a monkey.
Nailing in the floor.
Putting up the last wall!
Patty is the woman who raised the money for this house. It went to a gentlemen from the church at Santa Anna. We actually worshiped with this guy on Sunday! He told us that he was so blessed for what we were able to give to him.
Dedication for the house.
The house was build for the man in the blue.
The rest of the people are some of his family, including his niece Zoe, who I am holding.
She was so beautiful. She was 9 months old.
Fisher LOVES babies.
We finished up the house build around 3:30...which was really good considering walls didn't start going up till after 12:00! Then we made our way to the Santa Anna church to pick up the team who was painting. It was then that we found out about an accident that had happened at the other build site.
One of our members had an accident with a chainsaw early this morning. *HE IS OKAY* His leg was cut and they had to take him to the hospital for surgery. The surgery was to clean out the cut, cut away some bad flesh, and stitch it back up. Again, he is okay. We were blessed that it was not worse and also that TORCH has so many amazing connections here in Honduras. The doctor that did the surgery is a friend of TORCH and actually did it at no charge for his services. Please do remember to pray for him though, I am sure he will be needing it.
We love dong hair at the Mission House.
My Nello hand...sadly Scott and I got caught. We went double nello and caught 1 trick.
Miss Jody had to do I'm a little tea pot to get her phone back.
Tomorrow is sure to be another day filled with activities. Hopefully this the our last trip to the hospital with this team. Accidents happen, but I am hopeful that we will have no more.
My right hand man. This guy never ceases to amaze me.
Ethel someone else posted this on facebook. I wanted to include it because it your hubby was in the background. :) the was the other house build today.
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