Monday Update

Hola mi amigos,

It's Brandon here doing today's blog update. It has been a very full day. Today was the first day of the actual manually labor part working at Abundant Life Christian School. The construction has been ongoing for quite a while, so we are entering into the work midway through the process.

Today's tasks included moving dirt piles with shovels, breaking up and moving concrete and cinder blocks, cleaning the floors of the soon to be new bathrooms since we were expecting to get in some ceramic tiles to be laid potentially later this week, and then moving the shipment of ceramic tiles and toilets that arrived at the end of the day up to bathroom area. Needless to say, it was an exhausting day. But we had some great help. The Honduran workers there were great. We were also assigned two students that served as translators, Alan and Lucelli. And they dove full in in helping us do all that manual labors. On several occasions putting us to shame. We lucked out with some good weather. The rain held off today and it stayed decent workable temperature, though some of us did get just a bit too much sun. May need some sunscreen tomorrow. Overall it was quite a successful day of work.

Later that evening we went back to the church where we are staying and played up some pick up games of futbolita (or something like that) with the kids playing there. It's basically soccer, but on a small court and smaller ball. We held our own, but weren't really in to win necessarily. But just get a chance to play and live life with the kids there. And a really cool part for us was that Alan, our translator from earlier in the day, came and played with us. So it was nice to spend some extra time with him.

We ended the night with a great meal with a lot of the American/UK faculty of the school. It was one of the teacher's who works at the school birthday. Her name is Rachel. So we had a special treat of BBQ chicken pizza, nachos, and cake/cupcakes. So it was a great time getting spend time celebrating with her and getting to interact with the faculty and learn more about their background. It was really fun for me to just here about why they’re there and where their passions lie.

So it was a great day/night. Not just in that we had a successful day of working. But we really got to begin to interact with the people, both the students, teachers, and members of the community. And that’s really what this trip is all about. 

Continued prayers would be for health. We’ve had a few people dealing with colds or not the greatest reactions to food.  Also just for endurance. We are all very sore already and it’s only day one. So prayer tonight’s rest will be rejuvenating so that we can continue full speed w/ the work the rest of the week.

Cheers!