Day 4: Mountain Top House Build (Tito Morales)

So today we built a house for a lady who was in much need of it. Her home before was the size of a small guest room in the U.S. it housed her two children and it had a small kitchen in it. We built her new house four times as big that was an addition to her house. The house was just the right size too to make it a place to sell tortillas.  So we built a house and provided a way for her to make an income.

Getting the material to build the house was difficult because she lived by the side of a hill so getting the 4X4 and 2x4 was a smoker. We all learned new skills and where able to become faster at it. The girls learned to use as chainsaw and became faster at hammering stuff.

After the house was built we said a prayer in English that I translated and the look on Elba’s face was priceless. She said to me that she was extremely thankful and just had a smile that she could not take off her face the entire time, she mentioned how we where an answer to her prayer and she could not thank us enough for traveling so far just for her. She made us lunch, which was very generous because considering she only had four chickens and prepared one for us.

The whole team is just amazed at the power of God. We are so thankful for the people that made the trip possible because every little bit is being used for the right reasons and its changing peoples lives. Like Mark said “you don't have to feed a 100 just one and it will give that person hope in the world”.