A New Home, and a New Job

Yesterday we built a house! In case you haven't seen it yet. Watching me attempt to build houses is very comical. During our missions trip earlier this summer I spent more time trying to escape the build site to play with kids then I spent actually building. However, this was not the case yesterday. We were helping Mark Connell with the build and it was in quite an interesting location. To get to the build site you had to climb a very steep set of stairs that were made out of old tires. Once you got to the build site the first thing you would notice would be the lack of space. We literally had exactly the right amount of space to build a house in so we had to be careful not to fall on the roof below us. After getting the four posts of the house lined up, the hardest part, the house went up quickly! Mark's wife Lori also came to help us build! They are a pretty awesome couple doing some amazing things down here in Honduras!

One thing I have noticed down here is that when someone sees something good happening it is hard for people not to come on over and help. As we were finishing up the final wall I noticed that my height would be an issue in reaching the last few nails. All the bricks were being used to help others climb higher and I knew I would have to figure something out rather quickly. A young boy had been watching us from up the hill. He had just been sitting with his dog investigating just exactly what it was we were doing. I decided since Honduran kids love sitting on shoulders this would kill two birds with one stone. I had Jenn Hines ask him if he would come over and help us finish and we rushed down the hill to assist us. I picked him up, put him on my shoulders, and got to work!

In other news I found out today that I will be teaching 4th grade at Nashville School here in Tegucigalpa! I'm very excited and can't wait to get to work on Monday morning!