From Wisconsin to Honduras: 2012 - 2015: Honduras Mission

On our second community work day our group arrived at the home that we would work at and this is what we saw!! Are they not just the cutest??

This is the view from the family's home ... could you get used to this??

Again, we sought out to prepare the inside of the home by painting the walls with the CAL (white wash) to help seal the walls and deter bugs from moving in.

This home had two rooms ... both of which we worked on and prepared for a cement floor.

Even the children helped! All muscles were needed!

We were really impressed to see how even the younger team members and family members wanted to be involved and really worked hard to get the job done!

Teammate Dave worked SUPER HARD and we're really sorry that we did not get any photos of him hoisting 90 lb bags of cement mix over his shoulders. We know it was difficult because of all the grunting and groaning!! LOL, Dave!!

Here's me shoveling cement for what only added up to about five minutes! That is hard work and I'm obviously older than the last time I did this!

It was a great team effort to get the floors done even though our work group was a bit smaller than the previous day!

Team Leader Brian ... doesn't he look good??

We were very happy to have him as he was quite useful for the higher, hard to reach areas.

But this boy didn't wait around for any "tall people" ... he actually rigged this (see below) HIMSELF! It was quite special when members of the family wanted to help out however possible ... even the smaller members.

Here's teammate Jen taking her turn at applying CAL. Nice job, Jen!!

Here's Brynn ... and my future son-in-law, Aldo ... shamefully, his name is the only one I can remember of the children who live in this home. But, I guess it is important to remember the name of a future son-in-law! He and Brynn hit it off and spent the day hanging out and working together.

Aren't they sweet??

You can't see it too well from this picture (below), but try to imagine, will you ???

The DANGER ... the INSANITY ... the HILARITY!! (is that a word?) This ladder is not at all OSHA standard as it is straddling two precariously placed bricks and secured by the hands of the elderly Honduran man and my fragile pregnant team member ... sorry, Brittaney ... I was sweating pretty good as I painted the CAL on as quickly as I could while I hoped NOT to drop any on Brittaney ...

... every time I moved to a new spot, the elderly Honduran set the ladder for me again and used small rocks or nooks in the ground to secure the ladder. Each time, I thought ... "oh, I am so dead" ... but guess what?? I'm still here!! All is well, ... ALL SURVIVED!

And it was certainly an ADVENTURE in painting!!

At lunch time we all shared our meal together.

Sharing ALWAYS feels nice!

At one point during the day, probably when I needed a little break, I pulled out handful of the Gospel Bracelets and began giving them to the children. As I placed each one on, I explained as best I could in my limited Spanish that Jesus loves them and died for their sins.

Ahh ... setting the finishing touches ... just like frosting a cake!

The project was completed!!

AMEN for the family! AMEN for the team!

We cleaned up ...

... and before we said our good-bye's, teammate Shirley presented them with our big bag of gifts and explained to them the Evangecube, one of their gifts. They were told that they could also then share the Gospel with others by using the Evangecube.