More dirt, more road, spiritual steps, and community pride...

We got 30 more tons of dirt delivered the past two days and needless to say we're a bit weary of shoveling and pushing wheelbarrows! However, the road looks great!

This was once nothing but a mud hole!

From a mud hole to something suitable for a drag strip! Maybe we'll hold races here to raise money!

Another neat thing to see is the community pride that is starting spring up! It used to be that everywhere you stepped there was garbage on the ground, just like everywhere else in Honduras. Now not only is the garbage all policed up, but we see how these new homes are sprouting self-worth...this time in the form of the flowers in the picture below.

But the best gift of all is the spiritual growth of our own children as we all labor in the village. Yesterday Mauricio decided he wanted to take some movies to the village that we no longer watched. He searched through our collection and came up with about six that he took to the village. He gave them to Byron Alex, one of his friends there and a boy who is a bit of an outcast in the group. As Mauricio was leaving Byron asked him if he had to share the videos with the other kids. He told Mauricio he didn't want to because when he asked for something they never gave him anything. Mauricio told him, "God blessed you with these movies so you would have an opportunity to share with the other kids and teach them what it means to love like Jesus loves." Is that awesome, or what?

That same day Fabiola came to me as we were shoveling the dirt and told me 'Abuelo' isn't feeling well and he has a fever, so I was just talking with him trying to make him feel better. Abuelo is the nickname of Santorino, the oldest gentleman in the village, who is stuck in a wheel chair or hammock because of a stroke and a broken hip. After Fabiola told me what she had been doing I asked her if she had prayed for Abuelo and she said, "no" with a startled look on her face. This girl is 14 (15 next month) and 3 years ago had never had any introduction to the Lord, but now she is filled with the Holy Spirit! I told her she should think about going back to him and praying for him, asking God to heal him. Now her eyes really got big!!! I told her if she prayed for him it wasn't her strength she would be counting on; it would be God's. All she had to do was pray believing God would send the Holy Spirit through her and then leave it to God. She was only responsible for the praying; God is responsible to heal or not to heal! I didn't say another word and in a minute or two she tapped me on the shoulder and told me she was going back to pray for him. Fabiola went back, laid hands on Abuelo and prayed for him.  Sometime later she came back to me beaming from ear to ear and told me what she had done and that now Abuelo was feeling much better! 

It doesn't get much better than watching two of your own step into the roles that Jesus has for them!!!