So guess what? The
daycare repairs have been finished!!! They said it would take six weeks without
rain and they sure lived up to their word.
The rains held off until night time and the guys worked to get it
done. It looks great and the new
drainage worked great when it came a monsoon two nights ago. I asked Evelyn how bad it had rained in
Mololoa because at my apartment it rained A LOT. She said she didn’t think it had ever rained
that much at one time in November. The
best part was, there was no water on the daycare property, it all drained away
really well.
Yesterday we started going through all the material inside
to see what is salvageable and what isn’t.
Right now a good portion of it looks good, we just have to clean the mud
off of it. We literally had to scrape
the mud off of each tile yesterday because it seemed like it was glued
down. We are getting closer and closer
to getting that baby up and running again.
Evelyn and Wendy are soo excited.
Other than that awesome news, everything else is going great in
Mololoa. If you would like to see
pictures of the repairs to the daycare, go to the Mololoa Ministries page on
Facebook. You’ll get a good idea of the
work that was done.
Also, one of the ladies who works in the Daycare is getting
married this Saturday. Nancy and Walter
will be getting married at 5pm at the Church in Mololoa. Nancy is worried that she is going to pass
out because she said she gets really nervous.
I told her I’d definitely be there to take a picture if she did. She is actually having a double wedding. Some of you may know Tania who lives right
beside the classroom at the Church. She
is getting married at the same time Nancy is at the Church. It should be pretty cool. Noel is going to perform the ceremony. The only problem that we have had is
this. Nancy has had someone fully fund
her portion of the wedding. Rings, cake,
food etc. Everything she needs has been
taken care of. Tania has no money at all
for the wedding. It will cost $300 for
rings, food, cake, etc. $150 of that is
just for the rings and she doesn’t have money for wedding bands right now.
You may have noticed this nice little donate button that
I’ve added to the blog. It’s a paypal
button and donations go to paypal and then to the Palmetto missions
account. If you would like to help Tania
have a memorable wedding then just click the button and give a little. The biggest thing is the rings. If we don’t have cake or food then that’s
fine, but they need wedding rings/bands.
So if you would like to help then great and if not, well that’s fine
too. They are members at the Church if
that helps at all J.
Sunday was Presidential election day here in Honduras. Last week the rallies were crazy and traffic
was HORRIBLE. I know people who stocked
up with a months worth of food and supplies just because you never know what is
going to happen. I was told to have no
less than 2 weeks worth of supplies just in case. But there was no need. The election went off pretty smoothly in my
opinion. Sunday all the votes were
cast. Sunday night and into the early
morning they were counted in which Juan Orlando declared he had won, which I’m
pretty sure he did. Monday the current president
announced that Juan Orlando won which sort of confirmed it. Then Tuesday morning, yesterday, the lady who
finished a fairly close second declared she had won…. Then some protests
started. Since I was at the Daycare
yesterday I didn’t know anything about it.
That was until Evelyn, Wendy, Edgar and I had to run out for an errand
and on our way back we driving down the road and start noticing all the
police. We were like huh, there sure are
a lot of police in this area, wonder what’s going on. Then dang, there’s A LOT of police here. Well look at that, what are the riot police
doin…..uh oh. That’s when we realized we
had driven right into ground zero of the protest. Store fronts smashed, stuff all over the
road. Riot police everywhere and people
running away. Lucky for us we came in on
the very tail end when it was calming down.
That still didn’t stop Evelyn from freaking out. Edgar and I were up front and were loving it,
“chase him down, tackle him, there ya go”, while Evelyn and Wendy were in the
back having a panic attack. So we drove
right on through with no problem, just avoiding stuff in the road. We didn’t get back to Mololoa until dark and
Evelyn said she wanted to be my big sis and she lived up to it. After I left Mololoa she kept calling to make
sure I was ok until I got home. Which I
did with no problems, just terrible traffic.
So we’ll see what today holds in store.
Hopefully yesterday the riots started and died so hopefully there won’t
be any problems today. This election
stuff has gotten exciting all of a sudden.
Juan Orlando did win though, so he will be the new president in
January. Let’s hope he’ll be a good one.
My heart is torn though.
Most of you know what this Saturday is.
Rivalry weekend. Auburn and Bama
play at 2:30 here and Carolina and Clemson at 6…. And of course, I have a 6th
grade graduation to go to at 3, and a wedding at 5. And you can’t watch a replay of a sporting
event, it just isn’t right. As Jase from
Duck Dynasty said, you can’t will your team to victory in a re-run. And right
he is. #1 v#4, #6v#10. Why must we face decisions like this?!?
Oh yea and tomorrow is Thanksgiving….wow tomorrow IS
Thanksgiving. I hope you all eat an
extra plate of food for me. Hopefully
tomorrow I’ll write saying Thanks for Giving money for Tania’s wedding J.
I hope you all enjoy the holidays and I’ll talk to you
soon. Evelyn is at the daycare waiting
for me so I gots to go. WAREAGLE!!!
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