Monday and Tuesday

We always need to finish off a day with a good meal, sometimes aided by some good icecream from the stand across the street from our hotel. The stand has one partly speaking English lady who is learning English from university classes. Along with Mr. Douglas's Spanish knowledge, which is close to none, we were able to order ice cream. Although pointing at the sign and saying "this" is maybe how we were able to get icecream as well... We have visited this stand twice, once Sunday night, and once Monday night.

We went to dinner Monday night at the famous "House of Meats" with Mr. Adolpho and his family. From left to right, Mr. Adolpho, Zach (Mr. Adolpho's grandson), Mrs. Mayra (Mr. Adolpho's wife), Stephanie (our translator and Mr. Adolpho's daughter), dad Foreman, Mr. Buckstein in the back, Peter, Tanner, Christer, and Mr Douglas. Mrs. Mayra knows English from weekend classes that she is taking at a university in San Pedro Sula, 2 hours away. Zach is in a school where he is only allowed to speak in English, but he speaks better Spanish. He is a U.S. citizen, and the son of Stephanie's sister. The house of meats serves one big plate that has all kinds of meat, and everyone takes what they want from the community plate.

Today we our pump stopped working at one point, and we had to cut part of out tube off, because it had a crack in the end. We pulled the metal end connector out of the end, and put it back into the newly cut tube. However, we could not fit the connector back into the tube. So we put glue on the end and set it on fire. We did this to get it warm and soft, so that we could force the metal connector in with a hammer. This is Juan, the hardest working Honduran I have ever met. And that is saying a lot. Hondurans are very hard working people, always very willing to help and do whatever they can for us. Juan is more though. He is constantly working, constantly busy, constantly picking up the slack if we let it down. He is very smart as well. Even though there is a language gap between us, he still can tell what needs to be done, and he does it. Praise The Lord for blessing us with such a man as Juan.

This is Mr. Buckstein and Tanner after working with the drill. There is a reason they call it "the mud pit". The drill spits quite a bit of mud at this point in the process. What they are doing is pulling the pipe out so that they can put a different bit on the end. Pulling the pipe apart when they still have some pressure in them is needed in the process of removing the links of pipe. These two ended getting even dirtier than this before the day was over.