Team 103 First Baptist Raleigh

We picked up our team and took them to the house in Tegus to have a deli lunch. We found this was more relaxing for the teams than going to eat fast food. It gives them a chance to catch their breathe before heading for Choluteca. Team 103 came wide open and ready to get to work. They had a lot of energy and a huge love for Jesus. They got up on Tuesday and off they went to build their first home. Our goal this week was for them to do 1 1/2 houses but God had a different plan. While they worked diligently on the first house who was for an awesome man named Fillipa and his wife Iris and a beautiful little girl. Fillipa was born blind and works in Choluteca assistinh other blind people.They are an awesome little family. Every time Mike and I went out to the job site we could see the joy in Iris' face as each block was put into place. One day I saw her crying and these were tears of joy for her new home. While the team was working Mike, Orifilo and I were working hard on getting our checking acct set up. We were in the bank for five hours but finally got it. Now please realize we speak very little Spanish and Orfilio's English was about the same. This was an act of God that the checking account was open. Yes, PTL we have a checking account. To God be the glory. We are very grateful for Orfilio who took his time to go with us and help us. This definitely was not in his job description. We are very blessed with awesome people helping us at all times. God is providing us with angels everytime we turn around. Mike and I are now on first name basis with the employees at Promaco(hardware store in choluteca) Cynthia is the young lady who we always pay for our supplies. She is precious and puts the amt I owe her on a calculator so I will know how much to pay her. I am learning the language but they speak so quickly I can not for the life of my understand them. We have learned how to ask the gas attendant to fill up the truck with gas. We went to the bank today to pay the water bill and I suppose everyone else was too. We waited in the drive thru for 30 minutes to pay the water bill. We are becoming adapted to our culture and we do love it. We have learned not to get in a hurry unless we are driving.

Back to our First Baptist team: they had awesome devotionals at night which included a God moment for each of us. And just like Team 102 we were included in their devotionals each night. I feel like I am at a continual revival. One of the member's Bob, BABB (be a blessing Bob) got up each morning with his guitar in hand and sang to us to get us up. He is a precious man. Yes now there are four precious men in my life. But you will always be number one Mr. Blount. I really enjoyed Kristen. She and I had a common bond. We both have the gift to work with behavioral children. She also could shed a tear or two as you all know I do. After we got the banking acct, Mike was wanting to lay a block so bad. So he went out to the job site and help the team lay block and get it ready for the roof. We were all broken hearted when we couldn't start the second house because the foundation was not laid out correctly. This house was for a pastor we worked with two years ago and he has been living at his church in the ss classrooms with his wife and four children. He always has a beautiful smile on his face but when he find out the foundation had been done incorrectly his smile faded away. But thru alot of debriefing and the Lord keeping us focus on His work hopefully he will still get his home real soon. But we all learned that God is still in control no matter what plans or goals we set for ourselves. A lesson learned. Thank you God for keeping us focused on you and not our timeline. This also gave Team 103 time to play some futball and hang out with those beautiful children. Thank you for all your prayers and please pray for Team 103 as they go home on Tuesday and Team 104 comes in on Wednesday. We love all of you and we just celebrated on first month in Honduras. To God be the glory, Mike and Ginger Please visit Team 103's blog www.fbchonduras2010.blogspot.com