The team stood back and learned quickly how to sift the sand, make the volcano and end up with mortar for the blocks to go into place. Everyone literally tried this at least once this week on this team. They took the challenge and never looked back. Andie and Amanda spent the day making the mixture without stopping except for short breaks. Other team members would come up to give them a break, Andie would stop maybe five minutes and be right back with the shovel in her hand making and mixing mortar. Andie shared how it did her heart good to allow those guys who never stopped to be able to stand straight up for a while and rest their backs.
As the mortar is being mixed their is so much other activities going on. Amanda also speaks Spanish so she was drumming up conversation with her new friends. The men took their turn at mixing the mud and do not forget the women in the kitchen as well. Heather and Andie on the first day were stopping to take in the culture God had just placed them in and in awe of the beauty of this country.
Andie shared about the Parable of the Pharisees and Tax Collectors. There was three adjectives describing the Pharisees: condescending, contrite and conceded. The tax collector on the other hand was a broken humble man who was reverent, repentive and reconciled. We are all one in Christ. Praise God we did not listen to the Pharisees and not come to Honduras. Because we were obedient and are reverent to God's calling and even though we are human we are repentive of our sins daily and God has reconciled us through his Son, Jesus, that is how we can be here. We were humbled by God's request of coming here and our obedience to his calling gave us numerous blessings 
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