Friday, July 22, 2011

I just lost...

July 20th-Day 42
    Wednesday we built a house out at the Valley of Angels, sort of.  It was on a mountain above the valley, up in the clouds, and we could look off the mountain and see the entire valley out in front of us.  It was pretty incredible.  The family that we built for lived in a mud hut.  The parents were old, in their 80's, and the dad only had one leg and was in a wheelchair and the mom was blind and they had 7 grown kids living with them in their house.  They desperately needed a house.  The view was incredible out in front of the house.  The build went incredibly well.  We were finished by 1 and went to eat lunch in the Valley.  We had these awesome beef shish-kabobs, beans, plantains...It was incredible.  We then went back to the mission house and just hung out there until devo.  We went to the Jesus statue for devo which is always pretty cool and then back to the mission house for a game of spades and bed. 
July 21st-Day 43
    Yesterday the group I was with went to the dump.  We started out by going to the supermarket and getting 25 loaves of bread, 200 banana's and 200 pieces of bologna.  We then made the sandwiches on the bus as we went around to get water at the service stations.  Usually it takes a few stops at the stations to get enough bagged water but we stopped at one place and they had more than enough water for us to buy.  So we bought it and headed to the dump.  Most of the people on the bus, roughly 15 of the 25, had not been to the dump before.  We rolled up and we had bags of food on the back of the bus for a food distribution so we had to give off the sandwiches from the front door of the bus and boy did that cause a problem.  They rushed to the door and it got pretty chaotic pretty fast.  Only Troy, Jenna, Josue, Bryan Lopez, Pedro and I got off of the bus and everyone else stayed on.  We tried our best to distribute the food as best we could but I'm sure there were people who got more than one of everything.  We were in and out pretty quick and didn't have a chance to mingle with the people.  Some of the guys that were sitting in a truck started throwing eggs at the bus and then started throwing them at the 6 of us who were off the bus.  The hit Troy in the leg and Bryan in the jaw and the rest of us had egg on our hands and arms and clothes.  I've been to the dump where we were able to hang out with the people for a while but that was just not going to happen yesterday.  It was the craziest I've ever seen it there.  So we left there and went to Cataluna for a food distribution.  Most of the community is pretty ok to deliver food too.  The hills aren't too steep and the houses are easy to get to, that is until you go to the back of the community to the little mountain I'd like to call "makesmewanttodie".  It is a fairly incredible slope we had to climb to get food to the top houses.  To climb it empty handed is impressive enough but we had to carry a few 30 pound bags of food with us which made it rather difficult.  Knowing that someone was going to get food who didn't currently have food made it all worth it though.  We gave out about 300 bags of food and by the end of the day we were all pretty tired and worn out from climbing makesmewanttodie.  We then came back to the mission house and had dinner and devo for the last time with the group from Mayesville.
July 22nd-Day 44
    Today we had to say goodbye to many more friends that we've made from the Mayesville CoC.  They flew out at 1 a.m along with Aaron to go back to the states.  Over this trip I've been able to work with tons of amazing people and the Mayesville group was packed full of incredible people just as the other Honduras teams, Costa Rica team and Intern team was.  We've made great friends and hopefully these new friendships will not end just because we are going back home.  When we said goodbye to them, we loaded up the bus and headed to Mololoa for our last house build of the trip in memory of Mr. Paul Simpson.  The house site was ridiculous.  I know it may sound like I'm complaining a lot about the hills we have been climbing but I'm really not, just trying to relay how incredibly steep they are.  We had a few people that wanted to build end up going to the daycare to work because the path down to the house site was too steep for them and since the site wasn't far from the daycare, it made sense for them to go there.  The build went great though.  We built an 11x16 house because that's all we could fit between the rock wall and the cliff.  We were done with this one by 1:30 and when we finished we went to Campero's pollo for lunch which is always great.  After that we came back up to the mission house and threw a little frisbee and kicked around a soccer ball before dinner.  Then we had devo which we just finished up and we are fixing to head to bed.  We introduced quite a few people to "The Game" today so that has been incredibly awesome to watch.  Tomorrow we are going to family day out at the daycare at Mololoa.  The youth group at the church wants to play the gringos in soccer and we are also doing a food distribution for a section of the community out there.  Tomorrow should be just as awesome as every other day I've been here.  Oh and Emily, if you are reading this Sean says HI.

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