What? There's no chicken?!

What a day! Two main things are on our mind as we write this post: food (lots and lots and lots of food) and visiting families!





Today we were able to visit the job sites from this week and see the completed projects. While doing this, we also brought bulk food supplies, kitchen materials, pilas (to wash clothing), and sleeping cots. I know that we were essentially blessing these families, but seeing the sheer gratitude on their faces, tears in their eyes, and proudness with their new possessions, it felt more like they were blessing us! The best comment we heard was from the blind mother of a widow and mother of two young boys (at age 20!) was, "I feel like I am in a dream. I never could of imagined having all of these things. Thank you, God, for blessing us!" We are so thankful to know that this family knows these blessings are from God and we are just being His hands and feet!





Food... today was filled with an amazing feast of food. Breakfast was of course awesome, but lunch.... after being 2 hours late, we arrived back at the Posada famished. Within minutes we were treated to a feast of chicken and steak fajitas. There were very little side conversations, but lots of, "Do you have chicken? What, no chicken? We need more beans! Please pass the tortillas! Wait, they have corn tortillas? We're out of pico. Please pass the salsa. Yes, we need more guacamole (Tracy!) Wait, there's more chicken?" Needless to say, we stuffed ourselves silly. After that, we piled back on our bus and headed back to Cerro de Oro to visit some of the build sites from past trips. It was great to see these wonderful families and how they were doing with their new houses.





After our ride back to the hotel, we dragged our still-stuffed selves down to the restaurant to have dinner. I am sure most of us would have passed on more food, but tonight was our dinner with Pastor Diego, his wife Mary, and their super cute daughter Genesis. She entertained those around her by reciting her numbers in English from 1 to 10. What a great end to a wonderful and blessed day. ~ Kristen & Tracy