Team Azacualpa 2013 : Honduras Home-Makeover: Monday!

Monday morning the team woke up for team devotions and breakfast! Jim woke up ill with stomach issues and a fever. He took medicine and is feeling a little better tonight. Marianna made him some special soup. The ladies have been helping take care of him. So keep Jim in your prayers! 3 other members of the group have taken cipro to deal with traveler’s diarrhea , and the medicine worked right away! They are able to keep working. They went to the work site in Victoria’s at 7:30 a.m. today. They pull the mixer with them behind the pick-up every day. Today they finished the septic tank. They also leveled off some sand under the kitchen & bathroom additions. The ladies and a couple of the guys moved all of the cement block where they needed to be. While some of the other guys got the footings ready to pour. At lunch time, the group came back and helped feed the kids at the feeding program, which is a group of 60-90 children that come from town to eat their one meal a day. After lunch, just the men went back to the work site and the women stayed at the children’s home. The men poured the footings and the cap on top of the septic tank.

This afternoon the women sat around and did the knitting looms making scarves, visited with each other and the children, and just relaxed and re-charged themselves to prepare for tomorrow! I got to skype with the whole team late this afternoon. The men are looking tired, the women are looking exhausted, but EVERYONE had big smiles on and seemed to have energy somehow! Some of them look to be getting a little tan/sunburn going on! And they all send their love and thanks for the prayers!

Tonight, after supper they had “Family Night Christmas” where the kids all received Christmas stockings that the Clark’s Grove group brought down with them. The Americans all told stories of their family Christmas traditions. And the Honduran kids all told some tradition that they do that they like. Some of them included eating tamales and drinking coffee, staying up very late on Christmas Eve, opening gifts and watching a movie, and getting a new outfit. It was a very fun night. The team ended the night with hot seat. A game where the team bonds and gets to know each other better. The team is bonding really well! They say it is super hot, around 90 degrees with 100% humidity. The women will come home with very good muscles from shoveling lots of sand and moving lots of blocks! Dave says he’s very impressed with the ladies and that the guys are doing ok too (hehe).

For those of you praying for Kelli O’Byrne, with her heart issues, I have been constantly asking how she is doing. She says the prayers must be working because she has hardly had any “flutters” at all. She had one small flutter tonight, but she says she is feeling great and having a wonderful time.

(prepare for lots of pictures!)