Day 2

Monday, Aug 8^th: 7:00 am – meet for breakfast 7:30 am – leave for San Pedro Sula 8:00 am – attend Morning Prayer at the Diocese 8:30 am – meet with Bishop 9:00 pm – leave for work. 9:30 am – arrive at daycare and work 12:30 – lunch break 4 pm – finish up work and head back to the hotel 5:30 – 6 pm meet for dinner 8:00 pm – debrief meeting



From Cathy Little - Having a tricky time navigating the internet. Apparently Charlie needed to format his new camera chip. This computer won´t let us get the photos off of it. We´ve taken 90 but can´t get them to you!! He will use a different chip tomorrow. It´s way too bad `cuz today was full of photo opportunities. Fabulous service in Villanueva with darling children. Awesome trip up to Chasnuega (sp?) . . . teens singing De Colores while our (school) bus strains up the mountain past roosters and many butterflies . . Ultreya!! What a mountaintop experience! We were exhausted at 5pm but got a second wind. Richard and Al went swimming. We all just had dessert at the 7th floor open air restaurant. We´ll be out of here by 745am. Meet the bishop then start cleaning walls and priming ceilings. The daycare center is one solid, well built building. Margarita knows her stuff. What an inspiration she is, and darling kid, too. Better go say something for the website. Lots of love, Cathy



From Alex Little - Today was great. We woke up at 6:30, ate breakfast, and headed straight for the daycare center. We quickly started putting paint in our roller pan, setting out plastic to cover the ground, putting roller sponges on our rollers, and placing things to stand on so we could paint the ceiling. Nicole and I started painting while others prepared the tile at the floor so that we could paint the walls. Soon Marna started helping us paint, and others left to prepare other rooms. We painted all the ceiling in one room and the majority of another before going to lunch. The lunch that was made for us by very gracious hands consited of some very tasty chicken, rice, and vegetables. We were all also given some soft drinks. After lunch we went back to the daycare center to continue painting. We painted the first coat on all the ceilings on the bottom floor leaving the top to be done tomorrow. Then we came back to the hotel at 5:00 to relax for the rest of the day. love, Alex



From Renee - Hola! aqui esta Renee, As you can see from the photos, we were hard at work all of this day. Off and on, John, Marna, Renee, Richard, Andrea and Bill scraped and scrubbed the walls and the tiles closest to the floor, in preparation for painting the walls tomorrow. Cathy, Charlie, Alex and Nicole, (the least highth disadvanted) painted the ceiling as there were no ladders to speak of. We had a lovely time with the Bishop this morning at morning prayer in the Diocesan office, located only 10 minutes from the hotel. What a servant of the Lord. He said FLEXABILITY was his word to us for our work task. Well let me tell you, we had many occasions to prove him true today as paint that was expected did not come and tools needed were not available. Of course God provided everything in due time. Thankyou for praying for Andrea, she ahs recovered, but Cathy is Down with flu-like symptoms and Marna has a migraine. Everyone else is well and though tired, we are so glad to be here. Adios Amigos.



From Charlie Little - Hello all! we´re all having an experience of a lifetime. I wanted to show my girls a part of the world you wouldn´t normally get a chance to see, and all my expectations were met the first day. We have experienced some of the poorest people in the world who have a richness that most of us will never acheive. At the sunday service I was made very welcome by a half-a-dozen small children who evidently must have thought I was santa clause(don´t know why fat guy, red face, somewhat jolly). As you´ve read we took a bus ride with a fantastic group of kids who were singing for most of the trip and most of you who know me know that I usually don´t enjoy that sort of thing but it was great. I had been warned before I got here that i would be very disappointed in the construction practices of the Honduran people. I had many concerns one was that the building we would be working on would not make it past the first storm. I was pleasently surprised by how solid the structure was. Solid block walls, with a half inch of portland cement covering them as you can see in the pictures. This building wil be here for many generations. Now we just need to find Margarita the funds to finish it and to open it´s doors and keep it running. It is truly a great cause. I apoligize to all of you for the photo snafu. Alex and i had over 100 pictures that we took on the first day that are still in the camera. When we get home we´ll figure out a way to process them for everyone to see including John White´s new girlfriend Juna. (alex laffs). Many pictures of the children we´re here to serve and the hardworking people who are already here. thank you all for your support, especially my sisters, love to all, Charlie



From John White - Hola, muy buenas noches--prayers answered: Andrea recovered from stomach malaise and was fully in body and spirit at the daycare center today. We accomplished much today at the daycare center under the leadership of Carlos, aka official photographer for "La Compania", Pied Piper of Alan and other little Hondureanitos. Our busdriver Antonio can drive a school bus through the eye of a needle and has mucho endurance. The visit to the Bishop, who speaks perfect English, was both strange--bars protecting the diocesan property--and a blessing for all of us--morning prayer in Spanish at a very rapid rate of reading. Margarita is a visionary for the people she serves in this mission field. Like Paraguay, after a day or so of culture shock, you start to adapt. We spent the day working like a well oiled machine scraping walls in preparation for painting, painting, drinking water, scrubbing, drinking lots of water. The team is incredible in its leadership, including Alice, Bill, Charlie and, tonight, Rene who led us in a study of three psalms, and the rest of the team just working incredibly hard and well. Despite the well led effort today, Cathy is under the weather so please pray for her fast recovery. Also for Marna who wasn't feeling well at the end of the day. Pray please. Saw some of the kids at lunch today that we saw at church yesterday. At dinner tonight, one member of our group was ambushed by another member (both male) by telling the waiter that the first member wanted to order "Juevos del Toro". Se puede usar la imaginacion!! As a gracious accommodation, the remaining male members of the group accepted the invitation to share in this unique culinary experience. Nicole declared the victim to be accursed. Alice, I can tell you know you should be here, not worrying about a wedding. And Mary, you should be here--even though you don,t know it. Andrea and I miss you. You would love the people here, despite language barriers. Thank you everybody for the e-mails. These were a wonderful surprise. God is good, all the time. John White

From Richard Newby -

So yea... I just thought I would type up some of my thoughts from the past
few days:

Sat:
Well the plane flights were quite long, but what can you expect to Honduras?
I believe the first one lasted about 4 hours and 15 mins when we arrived in
San Salvador. Then we stayed in that airport for about 45 mins to catch the
next plane. The next flight took about 45 mins. We arrived in Honduras,
passed through customs easily, and met Margarita outside. Once we loaded the
bus and got to the hotel, we quickly went to bed... not very eventful.

Sun:
Up and out the door... we took the bus to the church (which happens to be
right near the worksite). We took a look at the worksite and returned to the
church for a spanish service... only some of which I understood. We went to
go have some lunch at a local restaurant... keep in mind we are in a
completely different country... so upon taking a look outside I realize that
our food is being cooked on a grill that is made out of a barrel cut in
half, turned upside-down, with a grate on top. The "grill" is just sitting
outside, in the back yard right next to the trash and peelings of old
vegtables and fruits... but oh well, the food was good. We then hopped on
the bus again, and picked up some of the kids my age to go up with us to the
site where the future orphanige is to be built, and that was quite a ride.
We basically trekked up a mountain on a dirt and rock road, which was an
interesting trip in a full size bus. We made it up there, and checked the
site out, which is right now being used to grow corn. The local villages up
there were very interesting. The houses were not made of much, and the
livestock looked pretty slim. We headed back down the mountain to where the
church was and we let off the kids and Margarita. We came back to the hotel
were the pool was just screaming my name. After that, it was time for
dinner, which we ate here in the hotel. By that time, it was time for bed,
knowing that I had to get up early the next day for morning prayer with the
bishop...

Mon: The Work Begins!
Early morning!! We get up and have breakfast, and head out to go see the
bishop. Morning prayer isn't that long, and we head to the worksite. It
didn't take very long and I was scraping down the walls so that they would
be smooth for the layer of paint later. Scraping took up the time from when
I got there, to lunch at 12:30. We had lunch at a local school (not like any
of the ones around Berryville or Purcelville) but it wasn't bad at all. We
went back to work, and it wasn't long before all the sanding was done. So,
me without a job, got to help with the painting. After we were done with the
painting, it was time to call it quits, which was fine with me, cuz by that
time, I looked like a frosted christmas tree (from the paint dripping off
the rollers onto me). Back to the hotel were I got a shower, and we had our
quick Bible study. After that it was dinner time, which we again, eat in the
hotel. Most people came back downstairs, but Mr. Kellner and I stayed on the
7th floor (where one of the open air dining places is) and we just sat and
talked. After a while Mr. White came back up and joined us, and it became a
regular TGIF. I left, and came down to write this... and so here I am
writing my e-mail. 

Thank you to everyone who spent the time reading this, and keep praying for
us!!


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Monday, Aug 8th:

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