And You Thought Your Rock Was Big

Today we build out by the dump again. I am fairly certain that I have built in the area we were once before. Our two build sites were pretty close to each other. One site was closer to the bottom of a mountain and the other was a little ways up, we couldn’t see each other but we were close enough that a few people walked back and fourth between the two sites.

Our build site yesterday caused a few issues yesterday:

We ran into a small bolder or two….see pictures

We had a few people get hurt…hit their thumb with a hammer and fall from the roof (caught themselves up near the top but hit their back a little)

Aside from that the build went really well yesterday. We even had some time to build Daniel a table for inside his house. He was very appreciative for the house. During the dedications is one of the times I really wish that my Spanish was better…Daniel spoke and broke into tears but I only understood bits and pieces of what he was saying.

The build site.

Working on a post hole.

They thought they found a large rock.....

 Until....

We found this one!

Colby bent the bar a little bit.

Mary was having a great time on the build!

Daniel, the man we built the house for.

We also had some time to build a small table.

Finished product!

Angel was at the medical center again yesterday, here are a few of her pictures…

The medical center yesterday was at the Didasko orphanages. 

Has Anyone Seen Our Build Site???

I can not believe I am already 7 days into the trip! A full week is already gone, which also means that we only have a little over a week left in Honduras for the year. Yesterday we had a very productive day! We built 2 family a new home in the La Tigra rainforest…which is very good because it rained last night! We finished up our medical center in Diamante and we had a team goto the hospital, mi esperanza, and do a Gatorade blitz.

When we first got to build site we had no idea where our build sites were. Manuel, Cesar, Jonie, and tricky were going around the mountain trying to find our sites...which we finally found about an hour later. My group found our site first and apparently the other group drove around for at least 45 minutes before they found their site. 

As you know we have had many easy house builds so far this year….yesterday we finally were given a more challenging build site…Here are some of the things that we ran into on our build site:

• ·      We had to level the ground
• ·      We had to more 2 large piles of cinder blocks
• ·      We dug through hard clay
• ·      We had to cut down part of a tree
•      We had to carry the wood down to the site

The build site...leveling it out

Some *1 or 2* of the cinder blocks we moved off the site.

Matt digging out the post hole in the hard clay.

Some of the wood we carried down the mountain.

The mountain that Hunter and I carried wood down for about an hour and a half.

 Dan cutting out the window and Scott putting the hinges on the door.

 The team putting in the floor

A step the built by the door.

The little girl LOVED the elephant that was in the donation bag for the house!

 My amazing crew putting up the high wall!

Thank goodness there was a hill on my side!

A huge lime!

Hunter and I saw baby ducks while were carried wood down the mountain!

The team we had did an awesome job staying positive and cheering everyone on as we worked. It was a great day surrounded by amazing people! Around 3:30 the other build came over and was able to help us get finished. We left the build sites around 4:30.

shower is cold I can still stand under the water!

At devo last night Carlos spoke about finding our identity. He used Galations 2:20 in his devo. He spoke about how if we have given our lives to God that part of us has to die, that we cannot be the same person we were the day before.  

Angels Pictures:

Giving out medicine instructions.

Writing labels and sorting pills....apparently we didn't get enough done the other night!

Truett!

Angel sorting pills