Tuesday, July 22, 2008

More Cement, Please

Honduras. Day 56.

We had devotional at the Rock this morning, and then Marc announced where the group was going to be able to go today: 4 people to finish the house in Ojojona, a crew to the hospital, a crew to feed at the dump, an evangelism crew, a crew to work on another school building in Nuevo Oriental, and two house crews to work in Los Pinos. A lot of people going a lot of different directions today. I didn't get to get on the crew to go finish in Ojojona... which I wasn't that upset about... But, I did find it funny that all of them were asking how to do stuff since I wouldn't be there, and they had to have more people come finish it that afternoon ("Maybe we should have included the crew leader after all..."). I was going to go work on house crews in Los Pinos, but there were a million people already on the bus, so I decided to go and work in Nuevo Oriental today.

We mixed cement, pick-axed dirt and rock, and passed cement blocks all day. I took Sean and Daniel Russell to get some eggs, ham, and creme, rolled in a tortilla, from one of my friends there for lunch. I bragged on the food to them all morning, and, sure enough, they thought it was amazing. Then we went back to work, and stayed there until about 4:30. We got Marlon to take us to the supermarket and everyone loaded up and some good sodas and sweets, and then we went back to the mission house. I hung out with Bon Boni, Daniel, and Sean for a little while, and then the rest of the groups got back and we had some amazing dinner. Then a whole bunch of us from Starkville played Apples to Apples before devo.

It's been a long summer, with a lot of problems and drama and exhausting work... But having my group here... Helps a lot.

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