House build site
Top: Catie and friends working on a post hole.
Bottom: Hannah and Jared working on a post hole.
Tricky and I took a selfie
Putting up the walls.
We had a few friends on the build site today.
Melissa being a champ and getting up on the roof on her first ever house build!
Getting the last wall up, I was a bit short.
A few of the kids who will be living in the house :)
The team and the family.
We have a few rookies on the advance team this year and it was great to see their excitement as the helped drive nails, put up walls, put in flooring, and even climb up and get the roof done! I can't wait for the rest of the team to get here if we are all going to work as well as the new ladies that we had on the build site yesterday!
Once we finished the house Mark showed up and asked us to drive up the road and wait while his other team finished their house (This way their bus wouldn't have to drive the entire way back up the mountain from the airport). While we waited Mark took us to coffee farm, a man named Jesus planted it about 4 years ago. With the help of a group from Freed Hardeman Mark was able to give him a loan back in March to help grow his business! With this loan he is planning to purchase some equipment, this will allow him to be able to grow, roast, and package the coffee himself instead of having to send it off somewhere else! It is amazing to see the growth that this country has had since I first started coming down in 2004! While Mark was talking about the loan it was great to hear the good that comes from a loan verses simply giving people money. With a loan Jesus will be able to grow his business but he also will be able to put pride into the fact that he did and it is 100% his work!
The coffee farm planted on the hillside of a mountain!
Amazing!
Jesus also had a vegetable garden up at the top for the off season.
Jesus in his farm.
After the other team finished we loaded the bus and headed back to Villa Gracis. On the bus I ran into a woman that looked very familiar and it turns out I had met her daughter about 8-9 years ago on a TORCH trip! I also saw a guy who I went to college with at OVU on the Texas group that was back at the Mission House! Funny how small the world is that you can run into familiar faces in Honduras!
Our group grew by about 12 people today. We had Tyler, Katheryn, Truett (4 months old and already on his first mission trip!), and Brenda flew in. We also had the Costa Rica group arrive from their previous trip, ready to do some more work here in Honduras!
Terry lead the devo tonight. Our shirts this year came from some graffiti that he saw in Costa Rica last year that said mas amore por favor, which translates to more love please. This is our theme for the trip and Terrys lesson. He talked about the apostle John, the apostle of love and the son of thunder. He talked about how when we hear thunder it is because there was a large bolt of lighting and how John was like a bolt of lighting. He was able to harness all of this ideas and love for Christ in his writing and spreading of Christ's word. He also talked about how on this trip we are hoping to get our own bolt of lighting for God going! We want to be that bolt of Christ filled energy no only here but everywhere that we go when we go home!
Today we are planning to build another house! With 15-20 houses being build on this trip I would say that is a great idea!
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