A Nice Mountain Breeze

I can not believe we only have 3 more days in Honduras. I am really not ready to be finished working here. Every year the trip seems to go faster and faster. Today we broke into three groups one group build a house, another went to the dump, and the last group went to the hospital and then distributed food out. I was in this group. 

To start off we had to load all the bags of food onto the bus. We did this as we always do by creating an assembly line between the food bags and the bus. I would say it took about 15 minutes for us to get all the food loaded onto the bus.

Isabelle was camera ready!

Then we were off to the hospital. At the hospital we broke off into three smaller groups. My group went down to the cancer ward. I spend most of my time there with a boy named Carlos. We spent some time coloring, playing with hoppy frogs, playing with cars, etc. I did not take many pictures but I do have one photo of Carlos and I. 

He was very excited about his Lightning McQueen sticker!

He was very very talkative the entire time I was with him. 

His dad also came in about half way through my time there. 

Some of the kids today were lucky enough to have their family there with them. 

Many times when we goto the hospital we will find kids who do not have any family there with them.

Around 12:30 we left the hospital and headed out to Diamante to distribute food. It was my first time handing food out in this area and it was quite a treat! I often have distributed food in Mololoa where it is a steep mountain and it is very hot. Today we were already at the top of the mountain and we had a wonderful breeze going throughout the afternoon. In all we handed over 200 bags of food. These bags normally last a family about a week and a half. 

Nick and Cheyenne handing out food. 

Pedro was learning how to drive the bus!

 Colby also took a turn driving the bus yesterday!

Marlon supervised.

When we came  back to the Mission House we ate dinner and then most people went out to play soccer. I decided to stay back and play spades with Ticky, Scott, and Nick. Scott and I had a great time teaching Nick how to play. I figure by the end of the trip he will be a pretty decent spades player. 

A few pictures from the other sites today.

House build

The school buildings we built and the desks and chairs we unloaded are already being put to good use! What a great site to see!

You Can't Trick Tricky!

Hey ya'll sorry for the late post, I decided to sleep in yesterday because we didn't really do much. Yesterday was simply a shopping day at Mi Esperanze and the Valley of Angels. We also went to church services in Diamante.

You may remember the chairs we unloaded from the container. 

Well they went to good use!

The school that was build a few days ago

Angel as an angel in the Valley of Angels

Virginias Pupusas!

In the evening we did have three people who lost items. We always have a good time when someone forgets something somewhere. My niece quite possibly was one of them on this night, and let me say I am the one that found the item. I did give her about 5 chances to find her missing item before turning it in though, haha. 

Today was a wonderful day! Part of the team went to Didasko for painting, another team went to the hospital and a Gatorade blitz, and my team went and built a house out near the dump. 

Our build today was far up a hill, thankfully all the wood was already carried up to the site. We built for a friend of our bus drivers Marlon and Norlan, it was a family with four children. The build went very smooth once we took down the electrical wire, haha. 

At the build site.

There was a beautiful few from the site.

Cassidy putting in the flooring

Scott finally is here and got right to work!

The crew in the finished house.

After we finish building we all always go into the house and have a dedication to the family, say a prayer, and give them a small collection of house warming gifts. Today the house warming gift included a few small stuffed toys for the kids. I wish that a photo could capture the excitement that those kids had when they were given the toys. You can look at the pictures I post but I promise you they do not do it justice in the slightest. 

When we finished building and walked down the mountain we ran into a couple who asked for prayers of healing. They had gotten into an argument with their neighbor and the girlfriend of this man was sliced pretty badly with a machete. I would say she had 60-80 stitches on her back. Please pray for her. I will say that the sticking she had done did look as though it was well done and the cut looked clean. 

The kids

Finished house

Angel gave me her camera to get some photos of one of the other teams.

Sorting meds

Gatorade Blitz. The workers love when we do this! 

When they see our buses they are hoping that the day is a Gatorade day!

The festivities for this evening were a lot of fun! Tricky Pat was challenged to determine which of 4 coffee cups was white because he claims that a white cups coffee is not as bitter. Colby and Dan are the ones that decided to put this up to a test. So they blindfolded Tricky, we took up a collection for the work fund for people to come and watch as he took sips from 4 different colored cups. I will try to find the video to post it if I can because I know someone took a video. Until then here are a few pictures to keep you entertained, along with a little more detail about how everything went down. 

Ready for the challenge! We collected donations for the work fund.

Where is your bet?

The master tasting his coffee.

You see that smile? He knows it's the white cup..

He also somehow knew that the blue was blue!

All in good fun but they did lose the bet. 

Never doubt the Master!