Well, there has been a lot of flooding and we had the opportunity to help! Because of all of the flooding, they had to let the dam open and many houses were destroyed. Some of our students lost everything and a fellow teacher also has nothing left. Anyway, we spent 2 days helping some needy families that lost their homes. Here are some pictures of a house we cleaned out from the flood.The patio around the house was completely covered in mud, so got shovels, brooms, a hose and buckets and heaved loads of mud out of there. We sang Christmas songs while we worked. Ha ha. It feels good to help people, see the improvements of your help, and actually be appreciated for it. Teaching, on the other hand, is a process that takes a lot more time to see your influence on. After seeing so many people with nothing left, I could only be humbled more by it all.
Here is Greg hauling out wet dresser drawers. We threw out the bad stuff onto the street where there were piles of mud and trash everywhere.
Here is a house that had been abandoned, full of mud.
The patio full of mud.
Sweeping!
Heidi and Lindsey spraying it all out!
Jenny and I sweeping, sweeping, sweeping!
Kandice, with her broken broom!
Kandice was sweeping out the mud and found a turtle in the rubble!
The abandoned street.
Buckets and buckets!
This is the owner of the house. His daughter goes to our school! What are the chances! Only God :)
After! It looked amazing.
Our hard working group! After 3 hours, we cleaned out that place and it looked so sharp :) What a day!
The patio full of mud.
Sweeping!
Heidi and Lindsey spraying it all out!
Jenny and I sweeping, sweeping, sweeping!
Kandice, with her broken broom!
Kandice was sweeping out the mud and found a turtle in the rubble!
The abandoned street.
Buckets and buckets!
This is the owner of the house. His daughter goes to our school! What are the chances! Only God :)
After! It looked amazing.
Our hard working group! After 3 hours, we cleaned out that place and it looked so sharp :) What a day!
2 comments:
Thats so awesome! Wish I could have been there to help. After hearing about people losing there homes and stories of our students I was ready to get on a plane and come and help. I miss Honduras! It was fun to see Greg and Jenny in your pictures too! They are fun!
I mentioned to nephew Arthur [Costa Rica 2004, Thialand 2005] that you were down there and he was really exceited/glad that he had done his missionary work and others, like yourselves, were continuing the process. Arthur is a single, Geek Systems Analyst in Aspen, CO.
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