Friday, March 16

Today we had the chance to start breaking rocks to build a wall for Yoni and Melvin and their family! (Yoni is 21 and has been virtually raising the rest of his siblings since he was around 14). It is to keep them safe from their house flooding in the rainy season. Yoni is an incredible young man and has had so many opportunities to go astray where he lives, yet has been so loyal to his family and thankful to Mark and all that he has been given in his life. He loves learning to speak English and teach Spanish and we got to talk a lot together today back and forth, it was awesome! Yoni and Melvin (who is 15) broke rocks at a rate probably ten to twenty times quicker than we gringos were capable of! haha. But they were very gracious and showed us how. It was crazy - we used hammers/mallets, metal points/punches, sledgehammers, and steel rods. As Terry called it "Flinstone" style. We also went to the Jesus statue here in Tegucigalpa overlooking the city with a beautiful view. My battery is running out so I'm going to keep it short but I am so thankful for another day here, to be able to serve God by serving Yoni and learning so much from him and his family and his story and attitude toward it all. I can't believe it's already Friday! Tomorrow we're building Abraham's house and I am very excited for it.

-Barrett