Today's bloggers are Mr. Marron and Alec Millar.
As you may know, our days are split into two halves: the morning and then afternoon. Most of the team spent the entire morning finishing painting the Malnutrition Clinic and starting to build the wall at the bakery...Hondurans (gracias to Anne) like their soccer and tend to kick la pelota (the ball) hard enough to make holes in walls....while a few of us spent half the morning carrying kids on our back or swinging them in circles. We heard that everyone back at home has been experiencing some big winds and would just like to let you know that we aren't missing out at all...it turns out it's kind of hard to paint the outside of a building or sift sand for concrete when the wind is blowing 40-60 mph. Needless to say, some people had more paint on them then on the building. Alec, Jacob, Juan, Edgar (Geovany-the pastor's son), and other Hondurans were making cement the old-fashioned way for and starting to work on the wall, while the rest of the team finished painting.
After another amazing lunch, consisting of pork chops, watermelon (the best watermelon you'll ever taste), rice, and salad, we went out into a community in Choluteca to share God's word. The team split up into three groups. The first group consisted of Tom, Paula, Becca, and Kelsi with Juan as their translator. The second group was made up of Jason, Anne, Reina, and Ricardo along with a Honduran from the church named Eli. Our group was Paul, Alec, and Jacob along with Sarah and Edgar as our translator. We ended up visiting about four homes in all because each of us ended up staying longer than usual at one of the houses. Our group had the privilege to share with a lady by the name of Erica who had a son by the name of Anderson (3 years old). After about an hour of explaining to her "For it is by grace that you have been saved, through faith-not by works-" Ephesians 2:8-9 our translator lead her through prayer and she accepted Christ as her savior! When we were ready to leave we decided to pass out our stuffed animals...what was for a few minutes a nice and orderly line turned into a free-for-all mob to get the precious little toys. At dinner two people from the Missouri team came up to Mr. Marron and asked if he had talked to a lady by the name of Erica. They said they had gotten into a conversation with her after we had left (their team ended up staying a little later) and found that we had already shared the gospel with her--they said that she was very excited about accepting Christ. Later on we had a great devotional time where everyone shared their stories of the day and we all prayed together. We are looking forward to what God has in store for tomorrow and the rest of the week...although were quite saddened when we realized that we are already half way through the trip.
Adios y hasta luego!