"Laughter Is A Universal Language" - Honduras Mission Trip Day 2

MONDAY - Day 2 (January 9th)

We woke up early this morning to a 7AM breakfast of eggs, toast, tofu, goat cheese and cantaloupe. We had some time for a personal devotional before heading off to the worksite.

Our worksite was about a 15 minute truck ride away on the highway. And by truck ride, I mean standing up in the back of a truck down the highway. SO MUCH FUN! The family that I was working on a house for was a family of 12. Their neighbors had received a house by the same mission organization about a year prior, so their 14 children were also around. Luckily we had plenty of people there so we could rotate between working on the house and playing with the kids. After the first day we had the entire house framed, had 2 sides finished and had started on the roof!

We drove back to CEI (camp are staying at) for lunch which was the yummy beef thing, rice, french bread, and a banana. Absolutely delicious considering I was dreading this meal!

This afternoon we hosted a day camp at CEI for all of the village children. We had some trouble getting the kids to be able to come because so many were having to work in the coffee fields, but we ended up with around 60 kiddos. It was SO much fun! It was run essentially like Cho-Yeh runs in the summer, and we had a blast getting to love on these precious kids. Our Lifehouse skit went well too -- added bonus!

Before dinner we drove our to CEI's other property and watched the sunset, it was absolutely beautiful! The truck ride over there was very similar to a roller coaster. Since we were on camp property the driver thought it would be funny to go up a hill slowly, stop at the top and teeter, then zoom down the hill. Regardless, it was fun and absolutely gorgeous!

Dinner was beans, tortillas and guacamole -- AKA peanut butter crackers again!

We had worship and a devo after dinner. Worship was fun and we learned some songs in Spanish. When discussing parts of our day, I made the comment that although the language barrier was tough at times, "laughter is a universal language". I love how although these children come from a completely separate world from we do, they still love to laugh and giggle. And those things don't have any language barriers!!