Saturday, February 20, 2010

Day Three - Honduras 2010

The day started early with breakfast at 7:00 AM. I am always amazed at how the cooks can turn out great food for such a large number of people. Before breakfast, we heard some stats about the volunteer group. The youngest is 14 and the oldest is 89. Collective over the three weeks of this mission project there are 140+ people from all walks of life. The great spirit of fellowship is so refreshing.

Today, Brent & the Line Crew got the tractor & trailer ready for the week's project of dropping at least 3 power poles, putting up a new transformer & running new power lines. Brent's job is to drive the tractor & assist Carter as he climbs the power poles. This afternoon, the dropped one pole which got the weeks project off the ground.

I hung out with Azucena & Ana Yancy. I had a great time talking with Ana Yancy. She told me about her life before Emmanuel. Quite interesting. Azucena is working in the toddler house. As I was walking down to the toddler house, the little tykes were playing in the playground. Three very adorable boys ran to the fence and climbed it for me to pull them over to hug. I ran out of arms but gave it a valiant effort. It is so great to see how much they grow each year. Erica is so beautiful and Memo is growing like a weed. There is one new baby, who is just precious. Azucena says that she likes working and living at the toddler house. Azucena is so good with the little kids.

The weather has been great. I can now be called a true Georgia red-neck as my neck is nice and red due to my sunburn. I will take a sunburn over freezing snowy weather any day.

After dinner as always is a relaxing time. Sitting around in the courtyard with a nice cool gentle breeze having fellowship with other brothers and sisters in Christ.

The only thing missing on this trip is our son, Josh. Our family motto is Serving Christ Together. That use to mean all three of us serving Christ at the same time at the same place. Now Josh is all grown and serving Christ while he attends college. We are all three serving Christ not in the same place at the same time. However together we are serving the same Christ.
God is good all the time; all the time God is good.

Until next time,
Bettye

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