Hey there everyone! Praying that you have had a wonderful week!
It's "summer" here in Honduras it seems. This reminds me of something I was told by Cliff (team leader) on my first trip to
Honduras in 2006.... "it's either hot or hotter and it's either raining or it's going to rain". An appropriate summary.
Sunday, funday! Paty and the girls came over and the party started, celebrating Carlos' s birthday. Good food, good company and a good time was had by all! Then church service afterward, celebrating our Lord in worship together!
Monday we're back laying block and working on the truck cage. The cage is fitting together quite nicely! There are still some things we need to do to it to make it look better and to finish getting it fastened into the truck. It'll be fun to see it full of people sometime! Ebert and Beto are working on installing a split air conditioner. Since neither one has installed one before, it will be an educational day! ... and it works!
Tuesday is more of the same. We're heading back to Ohio 2 weeks from today. A lot to get ready before we leave, and a lot to prepare for when we get back. We went to a large hardware store in San Pedro today, looking for several items, we found a few, didn't find everything. The point I want to make here doesn't have anything to do with materials, everything to do with the weather... it was 103 degrees! It's usually warmer inland than it is on the coast, and we usually have a nice breeze coming off the sea too. 103 was a surprise!
Wednesday looks like it will be a nice day! The crew was ready to work at 6:00am, the sun is shining, not too hot, a nice day the Lord has made!! We're having the crazy family next door raising their baseless claims about still owning the land. The local judge and the police know what is going on and who's in the right, Winnie's lawyer is on top of it, hopefully something happens today or tomorrow to keep them from bothering us. Yesterday the grandpa who claims to own the land semi-confronted us and a different crew who were going to put a fence around Winnie's property, they stopped
what they were doing with the fencing. Today a son (we think) came and took some videos of what we're doing, cussed at one of the guys, telling him that this stops today! Hopefully it does and they leave us alone! Winnie has gotten her lawyer involved, sounds like we have a meeting next Tuesday, in court, to address these issues, and there is a citation/restraining order that is going to get served, I hope.
In the meantime, work continues, we're done with laying block for a while, starting on extending the columns upwards to match the new height of the block walls. I'm continuing working on the prices for the La Ceiba project. After the first estimate, and Najae liked what she saw, we're fine-
tuning, adding some things, etc. Keep praying, things are progressing well for this project!
Sunday morning and I have some catching up to do with my update... bye, have a nice week. lol, just kidding I was contacted Wednesday
from USA about us possibly helping with a project in the mountains close to the Copan ruins. It turns out that Jesse, from Massachusetts, has
been to this church in San Juan De Opoa, has a passion to help them and was wondering if we can help too. There's a limited budget but they
need to get the next step completed. We decided to make the trip on Saturday to the site. It's about a 6-hour drive with a lot of road construction.
Once we got close, met pastor Juan at a gas station on the main road, we learned it was a half hour drive up, around, on, over the mountains.
What an interesting journey! There were times I was wondering if we'd be able to get back up the hill we just went down, steep and sandy, loose
rocks, etc. I was impressed that the steepest parts did have concrete with some grid lines for traction in them. Once we arrived at the church site,
we were greeted by some local church goers and neighbors who, as it is with everyone we meet in Honduras, were extremely friendly and they
were genuinely pleased to see us! After checking the site out, finding out what the next step was, we took some measurements and pictures so
I can figure out some costs for them. We also found out one of the church guys who had been directing and doing most of the work to that point,
had an accident and couldn't work anymore. After a great prayer session,  we headed back out to the main road, if you're ever in that situation, make sure you keep some momentum as you go up the steep grades, it helps tremendously and, in some cases, the only way you keep moving! After we made it to the main road the truck quit.... uh oh... it was acting like the fuel pump wasn't working properly, it would run if you
kept your foot on the gas but it wouldn't idle. As we were contemplating our next move, God already had it figured out! Talk about a God moment!
Two mechanics stopped to help us. We barely had time to open the hood and there they were. They were under and around the truck in no time! After several "it's this, no it's that moments", the thing that got us up and running was the air filter was clogged (from all the dust, etc.) (and it was the first thing Tammy said it might be )! After many thanks we were on our way. The mechanics followed us for a while to be sure we kept running! What a blessing!! Oh, and by the way, it was 100 degrees in Santa Juan De Opoa. (I just heard it was snowing in places in Ohio, just had to throw that in)
Thankful for you all! Keep praying for jobs, donations and teams to help sustain what we've started, it's a good thing!
Blessings, John and Tammy
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