Hello Everyone! It’s been tiring couple of days here. VAP ended Friday and we have been working on the bathroom since then. Austin and I went into Cieba after the VAP party on Friday afternoon to get groceries and Chris and Jim, the two other guy volunteers, came with us. They helped us a lot with some good things to get and we stocked up on milk and frozen chicken. We are improving day by day on cooking and shopping. This week is an off week between VAP and school starting down here so most of the volunteers took a vacation to El Salvador. There are only 5 of us left so it feels pretty empty right now. 3 more volunteers are coming in on Thursday, which will pack out our house. There will be 9 people sharing one small kitchen space. It is going to be…interesting.
We got an early start Saturday and worked till lunch with a minor setback of all our stake markers disappearing. When we asked where they all were, one boy brought out a broken one and said that this was all he could find. After lunch, we got our first taste of Honduran rain. It made the concrete a little wet but we pressed on and got one row of block laid. The rain was frustrating at first but at the end of the day it was somehow funny and I just couldn’t help but laugh as we carried all the tools back to the house, drenched in the pouring rain. We got to have a good conversation with some of the volunteers that night and I got to tell them a lot about Christianity. I am thankful that God placed that opportunity for me and I hope that I planted a seed of some sort. We went to church again Sunday and then just rested the rest of the day. It was awesome to just kick back a little. We biked down to the river and cooled down. It is really cool to bike through the fields without being able to see anything but fields and trees all around you. It is really beautiful down here and I don’t feel like pictures really capture the full effect. We finished laying three rows of blocks for the toilets today and tomorrow we will start on the floors and the woodwork. Please pray that God will give us the strength to work hard on the toilets and help us to work as if we are working for him and not for man.
Benjamin Worley
p.s. More pictures will come soon in my Facebook album
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