Difficult Task

This week brought many challenges.  Angel and Marie did not have a pilla with water, no bathroom and no electricity in their home or even on their property.  Angel's job along with his brother was for daily to go collect water in the white jug down at the river about one quarter of a mile from the project.  He did this all day and everyday. The mescal crew never lacked for water to make their mescal  for the joints or the floor.  It was an endless job which Angel did with pride because of his new home was coming in the future.  While Angel was going down to the river for water I saw Maria sifting sand to help get her floor completed.  This sand sifting is much more difficult for the floor than the joints for the blocks.  Yet she never stopped until the floor was completed.  Mike finished the roof and rested about ten minutes and helped fill the wheelbarrow up for Noel to carry into the floor.  If you check the picture of sand and rocks on the bottom set of pictures this was very important part of the prepping of the floor.  I was sitting near this pile of sand and rocks when Pastor Carlos came out of the house and said, "I need more sand and rock to get the floor ready for concrete."  He pointed to this pile and said "That is what I need"  I was simply in awe of how they use whatever is around which in our eyes may not look important or needed.  But in their eyes everything is important and needed.  Noel continuously carried wheelbarrows of mud into the house for Pastor Carlos and Cristobal to lay out the floor.  Mike shared one time to Noel, "You can slow down some if you would like."  Poor Mike he couldn't sat down for two minutes to catch his breathe and Noel was back wanting more concrete.  This went on all morning.  Because O'nil had three piles of concrete going in different stages the entire morning.  All worked until the floor was completed and they were all exhausted.  Yes the Hondurans get very tired too.  Noel finally took a deep breathe and leaned up against the rock wall across from the home.  Everyone was relived to see lunch arrive and cold coke of course.  This lunch was delivered on foot by one of the gentleman's wife, members of the church of Angel and Maria.  We saw family and church family come together this week along with my own family from Monte de Horeb Ministries to provide this mansion for this precious couple.