God works in many ways and through many
people! The reason this is only my
second blog from this trip is because I have been having problems with my
computer. I can get on the internet just
fine…but once I get there it takes 2 to 3 minutes after every click to get
anything to work. It took me over 4
hours to get the last blog in. Yesterday
morning I used another computer to check my email and had an email from 2
friends that read the blog and they were lead by God to send us $3,500 to build
another house. I was so moved I cried,
but that’s nothing compared to the family that I got to tell that they were
going to get their house built. This
family is a husband and wife with 3 children.
The husband is the brother of the lady we are currently building a house
that Barboursville Rotary paid for. He
is one of the block layers and has a piece of land that Len Rogers purchased
for him a couple years ago. Through generous
people like this….I am the lucky person that gets to tell people they are
getting a new home. We also told a lady that has 3 children, one daughter named Jinny who we have know since she was 2 years old, that if we raise the money, we will build her a house next trip. What a wonderful
Christmas these families in Vera Cruz will have this year!
On Saturday we went to the Vera Cruz
Public School graduation. Their
graduation takes a lot longer than ours does.
They start out by gathering at the school and then marching to a
Catholic Church about 2 blocks away for a Church service that took over an
hour. Then they march back to the school
and each student, with their escort, is announced and walk down the aisle to
their seats. The escort is generally the
Father or relative of the girls and Mother of the boys. Then the number 1 and 2 students in the class
give their speech and the dignitaries give their speeches. After that they are called up individually,
with their escorts, and receive their diplomas.
While on stage, the escort presents their student with their class ring,
if they were well off enough to purchase one.
Then each student and their escort are announced and walk back down the aisle
to exit. We arrived at the service at
1:30 and left at 5:30. Afterwards we
went to a graduation party of a beautiful girl named Hazel, who we had built her
family’s home several years ago. While
at the party I was really honored when a wonderful girl named Salina, who I
have known from the beginning, ask me to be her graduation escort next year.
Sunday morning we went to the Remar Church
with the children from the Remar Orphanage.
We left there and went back to Vera Cruz to the New Jerusalem Church for
the Christmas party for the kids there.
The numbers were a little down this year, we ended up buying gifts for
only 66 children this year. They played
games, and of course the gringos, (Len, Rick and I) had to lead each game
off. Then they had their piñata, and as
always, they blindfolded me and laughed as I tried to hit it. Len videoed this and wants me to put it on
the blog…..but I don’t think so.
Monday was back to work, the second house,
with help from Bradford White, was started and the first house is almost
finished. We have had little problems
with getting materials or labors for either house. The biggest problem so far was our welder for
the roof of the first house was broken.
At home this wouldn’t be much of a problem, but here getting parts isn’t
as easy. We had to go to the Oriental
Market (black market) to find the parts, and also make sure they sell us the
right parts. This is the biggest market
in Central America. It is somewhat
dangerous to go there and many of the people from here will not go there. Len and I have been there many times, but
this was Ricks first time. Anyone who
knows Rick, ask him what he impression of the Oriental Market was, I don’t
think he wants to go back.
Well we had better get to work….my
computer in now working better. I got
rid of Internet Explorer and downloaded Firefox and everything seems fine. I want to thank everyone who makes all of
this possible. Without your support none
of this would ever happen. Our 501c(3)
organization is the Nicaragua Education, Shelter and Health Fund, Inc.(NESH),
P.O. Box 731, Barboursville, WV
25504. Adios for now and I will
write more later.
GOOD BLESS YOU ALL !!!
GOOD BLESS YOU ALL !!!
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