"This is unreal!" - Honduras Mission Trip Day 5

THURSDAY - Day 5 (January 12th)

We woke up to a breakfast of toast, eggs, beans, and.... yep, you guessed it! Peanut Butter Crackers as a substitute! We had our devotional and then loaded into the trucks to head to the worksite.

We stopped at the house that I was apart of building first to dedicate the house to the family. Seeing everybody together was so special, and the family was SO thankful. It was very hard to leave and say goodbyes to that sweet family.

We then road an hour in the back of a truck to a new site named Conchias. The road trip was unbelievable! The views were breathtaking, and multiple times we made the truck driver stop so we could take in the immense beauty of the mountains. It was unreal!

The truck eventually stopped, and we were all kinda confused. We saw the huge stack of lumber that was intended to be used for this new house that we had taken on building, but we didn't see the foundation that we were supposed to be building on top of. When we asked where it was, we were told to look up the mountain... Yep! 1/4 of a mile straight uphill! The trucks couldn't make it up there, and there was no power up there to cut the wood, so we had to carry all of the wood up the mountain. After finally getting it all up there, we were able to get all of the sides up for the house, so that the next group would only have to worry about the roof.

We made sandwiches there before heading off to the orphanage. It was another sweet day filled with playing with the precious children. (As I mentioned before, a little girl by the name of Sara STOLE my heart, but she is getting a blog post to herself). It was so hard to leave the orphanage and say goodbye to those beautiful and loving children!

We went back to CEI to shower and have dinner before we headed to another church service. We were told dinner was hamburgers, so naturally we all got VERY excited. We quickly realized that it was "seasoned" and baked with relish and cream inside, so it wasn't as good as we were all hoping for. Not to worry, there was plenty of peanut butter crackers going around!

At church tonight there was lots of singing, and Garret (Cho-Yeh's summer camp director) was asked to preach on the spot. The family we built our house for was at church so it was special to get to sing and praise Our King with them! It was neat to sing songs declaring the same praise to the same King in two different languages. That is something I don't think I will EVER forget! Absolutely beautiful.

We spent tonight talking about our days, looking at pictures, and then going through all of the clothes we bought and making an enormous pile of clothes to donate to families and children here in Honduras.

Today was an absolutely beautiful day, and it seems unreal that we only have one more full day left in this gorgeous nation!