Another group of 5 farmer business men arrived last night. They were to work and help with the operation of the farm. They were from different churches in the states. A couple of them knew each other. They worked with Moises, the Honduran in charge of the farm. They shared meals with us, and were very friendly! (Tom, Don, Jim, Jerry, ? and Jim's grandaughter, Carissa)
We had French toast, bacon, fruit (watermelon, grapes, and mangos), and cereal for breakfast. Mmmm good! After our devotional Donna and I did a little laundry. We met Travis in front of the conference center at 8:00, for a very informative walking tour of the farm. We learned a lot about this 2000 acre farm that is home to about 83 boys and 17 Bible Institute students! So much info---hope we can remember it all! We toured the vocational school (woodcarving, furniture making, welding, industrial mechanics, and agriculture, etc.) As we were going in the boys dorm to look around we heard a loud noise---sounded like a gun shot. It was! They had killed a water buffalo! Soon we saw the front end loader coming up the road with water buffalo in tow! They were heading to the slaughter house to cut him up for meat for the boys in the days ahead!
Then we got on the yellow school bus and Travis showed us the jungle and fields surrounding the farm---a herd of water buffalo and a group of howler monkeys, high up in the trees of the jungle. They even grunted for us---a big sound for the size of monkey. Sounded like a gorilla! Travis also showed us a cocoa bean pod. I had no idea that's what it looked like. It was a large yellow oval shaped pod, a little bigger than one of the footballs the cheerleaders throw into the crowds at a fb game. Travis cut it open with a pocket knife and let us "taste" the cocoa seeds inside. They had fruity flesh, similar to a pomegranate, around the large seed, about the size of the end of your little finger. The cocoa part inside the seed is bitter (so he says) and looks like a raisin. I thot a cocoa bean was similar to coffee beans!
After lunch we went to work. We worked on 1/2 of the boys dorm that they are remodeling. Half is nearly done, and boys are living there. We began by emptying the rooms on the other half, of all the bunk beds and misc furniture items. We took apart the beds, and arranged all the stuff in one room on the remodeled side. They are going to put triple decker beds in the "new" rooms, along with a metal locker for the boys' belongings, and a desk.
After we emptied the rooms we moved outside to begin removing tiles from the roof. Katelyn and Linda were first on the roof (because they were the smallest). They cleared some of the tiles, and slid them down 2 metal poles. The men caught them and brought them to Donna, Patty and I, and we stacked them around a big tree. Soon, Scott and Johnathan got up on the roof too, and they passed the tiles to one another and Katelyn slid them down the poles, until they cleared one section from top to bottom. Cooper, Peyton, Seth, Rhiny and Jeff, carried stacks of about 6 tiles to us and we continued stacking them around the tree. They got 1/4 of the roof de-tiled on Monday.
At 4:30 we stopped and showered before supper at 5:30. After supper the boys played fast soccor. We all wore our team shirts (red, yellow, green or blue) and rooted for our team. I rooted for the red team. We were at a disadvantage, because we played yellow, and Lori was the captain for the Y team and she gathered them together prior to the game and they had pray. My team was captain-less. There was no one to encourage them. They were behind at the beginning of the game, so I went to my room and got some M&M's that I brot with me and I gave them to all the red players as encouragement! Must have worked, cause they WON!!!!!!!
After the game we went over to Travis and Lori's house for banana splits and a sharing time.
A good day of learning and work!
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