Man, a lot has happened since we last blogged. We have been having trouble getting the internet to work so sorry it has been so long. Last week I had the opportunity to help translate at a medical clinic in Guajire. It was a neat experience and we got to meet a lot of people. One lady stands out in my mind, we held the clinic in her house. She was an older lady that has 9 kids, three of which became wheelchair bound about the age of 10. The three kids still live with her and she cares for them all very lovingly. They have trouble speaking and cannot feed themselves. This would be hard to handle in the states, but this lady lives up in a small mountain village, I can only imagine... These beautiful flowers were in her backyard, it seemed to me a stark contrast of beauty against a background of hardship.


Last Monday we went to the only natural lake in Honduras called Yojoa. We wanted to thank/reward some of the boys that had been working really hard helping us pour the footings for the kitchen at the church so we brought Darwin, Ariel, and Benjamin home with us after church on Sunday night. The boys stayed up late playing Nintendo soccer, then we all got up early and loaded up with blankets and pillows in the bed and headed north for the three hour trip to the lake. The day was filled with adventures starting out. We asked some local where we could rent a boat and we ended up at a families house who gave us some oars and pointed down a muddy trail. It ended up being a crazy muddy cow trail that was barely passible and when we arrived there was no way we could all fit in the boat which was trapped in a weedy mess, and no where for anyone to sit. So we decided we would try somewhere else.

We drove back up the road and found a "resort" that would let us use their dock and fish. The boys got adventurous and waded out to flooded dock to do some fishin. No fish were caught at the dock but everyone seemed to have fun. For lunch we went to a local restaurant that overlooked the lake. We told the lady that we wanted to eat there and she guided us to a deep freezer where we picked out the fish we wanted to eat. Then she threw the whole fish into the deep fryer. It was good fish, although I'm not sure I will ever be able to eat a fish like the Honduran boys we were with who ate the whole thing, including the eyes...

At the restaurant we were able to find another boat to rent and the boys set out. The boat road pretty low in the water but it didn't tip and they boys had a blast. No fish caught all day but it didn't matter, we all had fun at the beautiful lake Yojoa.

This week we managed to pour the last of the footings at the church. Will estimates that we poured a yard and half of concrete which comes out to about 2 tons. It was some pretty hard work, but we had good help and got it done.