It's Only The Drive Shaft.

Another day has come and gone here in Honduras. We started off the morning with devo on the deck, which was nice since we hadn't been out there yet this trip. Chad spoke about remembering that following Gods word may not always make sense or be the most fun but that in the end He is looking out for what is best for us. 

Chad speaking to us.

We broke off into 4 groups today: 2 house builds, medical team, and Santa Anna work crew ( moving cinder block, handing out bags of food, etc) Today I was on Scott's build in Santa Anna. This house was built in dedication to the Flannerys father who died a few years back.

It was another rocky location. We literally built this house on a boulder. Luckily, the boulder broke apart pretty easily considering it was a boulder. By around 12:30 our 4 posts were set and the concrete was poured. 

 The wise man build his house on the rock.

I was lucky enough to be on the build with both of my girls, Cassidy and Hannah. There was not much around our build site today. Nothing much to get us any extra height or shade. We had a lot of people standing on buckets, climbing the sides of the walls, and using the one step ladder that was available. 

Scott and others getting concrete into the post hole.

Hannah nailing in a wall.

Working on the floor and the roof.

The floor had to be slid in underneath a barbed wire fence. Once the floor was put in we were able to get the last wall up pretty quickly but then we still had to put the window in. Normally we try to have the door and window on a wall that isn't last but sometimes that simply isn't possible. 

My girls <3

We always have someone go back after the floor is done to be sure all the nails are well pounded into the floor boards. 

Some of the kids carved this into a rock near the house. 

I was a little glad that I had some down time while they put in the last window because I got to do a few yoga pictures.  

The house was finished around 4:00. We had a pretty long dedication for the house to tell them about Neal's father. The family was very appreciative and told us how they had be praying for a house for a long time but they never gave up hope because they knew God would provide for them. 

After the build we picked up the Santa Anna crew and arrived back just as dinner was being served. The other house crew however ran a little later. They got odd to a late start because their build was farther away and then on the way back the drive shaft in the bus fell off....so they had to push the bus to the side of the road and wait for Marloan to get another bus down the mountain to pick them back up. 

Kittanning group

This view will never get old to me.

Once they got back and ate we went out to the Jesus statue for Devo. Going there never ceases to make me smile and think about the wonders of Gods power. I love seeing the lights continue to grow in the area that was taken out by Hurricane Mitch in 1998. 

Tomorrow will be another day of adventures. We have a house build, work at Didasko to fix the playground, medical, and a group going out to do daughters of the king (a time that we take to pamper the girls in Honduras, which many times does not happen here).