Once Mrs. Barbara prayed over the first block all those Honduran men got busily to work making this foundation into a home. It takes five courses on the first day and setting the doors before they can truly call it a day. Our morning started out slow until some much younger men, ages 16 - 18 were called in to help these fellows get the mescal mixed. Our problem was which is a great problem to have is we had about three or four great brick layers and the first crew simply needed some help and once the reinforcements arrived the amazing brick layers who are much older gentlemen including Mike who thinks he is still young ( he is very young at heart) was struggling to keep up with the continue flow of mescal. It warmed my heart to sit back and watch all this unfold and joke with the older gentlemen how the younger boys kept them hopping. They just looked at me and kept on laying blocks. Mike and Meida cut the 60 specialty blocks for the first day. Yobani got promoted on the second day to block cutting and Mike laid the block. Meida continue helping Yobani with the block cutting and delivering the blocks inside the foundation. Down on the side of the main highway is where the mescal was being produced and then carried up the steep embankment in five gallon buckets filled to the brim. Day after day course after course was going up and becoming more like a beautiful home for Rudy and Cindy. I was sitting near Cindy's mother's home watching and heard Cindy's mother, Patty say, "This is a beautiful and huge home for her daughter." I smiled and said God is so good isn't HE. This is a 19 x 25 home with two doors and two windows and a concrete floor with a lock and key for one of the doors. Rudy and Cindy was in awe of how big and beautiful their home was becoming nestled up on a hill among some nice mango trees for shade. They were overwhelmed of the whole week of others helping them receive this mansion.
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