Yesterday morning, we drove out to Santa Ana. It was Mark, Dillon, Ben, Terry, Matt, Evan, Melvin, Melvin's sister Oneda, and myself. Barrett stayed back to recover another day, which was much needed for him. Mark Tindal, not exactly sure how to spell it, does a lot of work in that town. It is about 2 hours south of Teguc. It was beautiful. We met Jonathan Estrada (he and his brother Luis work full time for Mark) and the day began! Me, Terry, and Melvin headed over to get some tools and a dump truck unloaded a whole load of dirt and gravel, which in Honduras only means one thing: mixing cement.
We were breaking tile on what will be a home for teenage women who were taken by the Honduran equivalent of DHR in the US. So, orphans, ones with dysfunctional families, etc. From now till the end of summer, Mark Tindal will be working on making the place livable for the ladies coming in.
We would be mixing cement and Jonathan, Melvin, and his sister would sit and laugh at us at how slow and inefficient the Gringos were. Jonathan would reach out his indicating he wanted the shovel and be twice as efficient in half the amount of time. It was amazing. We mixed about 7 or 8 loads. One load is a lot of work. However, we got 3/4 of the porch done and it was looking good!
It was very hard work, but very rewarding. You learn to respect the work ethic of the Honduran people because they do that labor every day to earn around $300 a month. Amazing.
En el nombre de Jesus,
Drew
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