The Adobe House:
When we got up this morning we were told we were going to be digging dirt out of an adobe house. The women living there was handicapped and needed cement ground for her wheelchair. So we were split up into two groups, the adobe group and the widow house group. The adobe group was digging the dirt from the house. We worked extremely hard. We were to dig 6 inches out of the floor. It was a challenge but we managed.
We are so glad to be here and to be able to build these houses for these people. It makes us so happy to be impacting the Guatemalan people. We have been working very hard the past few days. So far its been an awesome, impacting, and heartwarming experience. We’re so glad we’re here. A lot of us have blisters on are hands from shoveling but thinking of what results come from it, it makes it that much more worth it.
Were also glad to be here to witness and shine through to spread the word of God. It feels so good to be able to do that. We all love it here, and we hope to be able to work, and impact 10 times more than we have.
~ Kasey Espinoza
Widow House #1:
In our third full day in this lovely country of Guatemala we got to start building a house for a widow who lives in the mountains. The day started off with a lovely breakfast prepared by Josephina and Rosa. After that we went to our building site about 45 minutes away into the mountains.
Once we got there we had to hike back about a quarter mile to the widows house. There for us was already cement and posts in the ground. Our job was then to get the siding on and make a doorway for the door. Just before lunch time an elderly lady came by and asked us to pray for her as she was sore and she had a bad headache, she was about 90 years old, we then prayed for her. Once we finished praying for her we then preceeded to eat our lunch. After seeing how those people were suffering I couldn’t eat my lunch so I decided to give it to the family who greatly appreciated it. We finished all that needed to be finished and then headed home.
On our way home we were giving candy to little kids who we saw along the road and kids we saw when were leaving the village. As we were driving home we saw a man passed out on the road. Christian, who was our project leader, stopped and decided to help the man and put him in the shade by the road so he could sleep. Christian then decided to talk to the man about his problems although knowing he was drunk. We then left as the man decided to not be kind. Soon after we arrived back at the house we were staying at
Through this experience God taught me that although someone may not deserve respect you always need to give it. With Christian’s act of kindness it taught me a thing about being courageous because when we left the man Christian said “God bless you”. Even though he was drunk I pray that the man heard those words come out of Christian’s mouth and understand that God truly does love him and thinks no different of him.
~Ross Withrow
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