Devotion Songs - In the Sweet By and By, Rock of Ages

Bob - the light of the world

Walking up to the porch for devotion.

Local wildlife

Tarantula on the porch

Home completed, dedicated, last night devotion

We completed the home, dedicated it with the family, held an amazing foot washing service and are now preparing to return home to our families.  We have had another amazing trip and will post photos this weekend.  I even have a special treat to share, audio recordings, and some video, of our evening devotion songs led by Bobo on his guitar.  Bendiciones.

Buena Vista

I have some photos and video of the home we are building, the workers, and the beautiful vista from the mountain top above our work site.  I'll post those when we have a stronger Internet connection.  It's hard to say this, but despite the unbelievably difficult drive into the village, this may be the most beautiful site we have seen in all these years of coming to Honduras.

Work Day #1

We are working in the village of Agua Caliente in Linaca.  It is a beautiful location up in the mountains north of Choluteca.  The land is hilly and rocky and has lots of cows grazing in pastures... a very different setting from the sugar cane and melon fields south of Choluteca.  It takes us 1 hour and 30 minutes each way to travel there, with 1 hour and 15 minutes of that time being on dirt/rock roads.  Beautiful views but an unbelievable drive.  We met the mother and son for whom we are building the house today.  The father is a police officer who works in Tegucigalpa and he will be at the site next week.  The family and community members are very sweet and appreciative. 

Pastor Carlos led us as job foreman today with Jose (and Joel) driving, Maida translating, Bob playing the hola game, Suzanne coloring with kids (and helping fill joints), Brad learning all the construction roles and graduating beyond rookie status after the first 2 minutes, Steve running the saw, JB handling everything between the saw station and the house, Tom, Dennis, and Joel laying block, and tremendous help from Wilmur and the village workers who mixed mezcla and kept up with us all day.

Our goal today was to finish 5 courses and Pastor Carlos said we had to stop at 3:30 because of the long drive home.  We were so far ahead of schedule that we had 4 courses done before lunch, took some extra time for the traditional post-almuerza siesta, and still finished by 2:30 PM.  Amazing how smoothly it went.  We were blessed by shade most of the day, a cool breeze to counter the 95 degree temp, and entertainment provided by a cow/pig pasture about 10 feet from the home work site.  Bob jokes:  "Look that calf is milking this for all it's worth."  "Utterly amazing." 

Beautiful sunset

Photos to come... (slow network connection)