Hey guys,

A lot happened over the month on the mountain. Pictures will do more justice than words alone ever could.

The journey to Honduras from Guatemala was ROUGH. We had no AC for 18 hours and were extremely crammed in a bus + van. Hot is an understatement, and the driver kept falling asleep at the wheel. However, the company was fantastic, jams kickin' and views unparalleled. We even passed by the Del Monte Banana plantation.

Katie in my lap as we descended up the mountain. 

Twelve to a normal size pick-up truck.

Cruising~

Tenting for the next month!

My lovely yard.

Catracho Missions (Catracho is what Latin's call people from Hondurans.) is led by Paul and Tania, a former engineer and lawyer who left the security of their former life to pursue all that God has called them into. They church plant where God leads them. We were privileged enough to partner alongside them as they finished building a church and community center in a community forgotten.

By far the hardest physical part about the mountain was hauling this lumber over a mile through the mountains back to our site. 

We did it 8-10 over the month. We used it to build the church and community center. 

Construction queens after building furniture for the community center.

We hosted a VBS for the children. Here they are at check-in.

Tug of war was no joke for these guys.

The girls were not playing around.

Jacobo getting competitive.

Teaching the children Bible lessons!

Amanda from Catracho Missions being an angel.

The best pancakes makers you ever did see. :-)

All the meals for the month were prepared in an outdoor kitchen. 

We served the children and mothers a snack every day.

They left with school supplies. (Catracho Mission started construction on a school after we left.) 

We hosted woman's Beauty for Ashes events for the moms while the children were at VBS. The goal of these are to create a place where woman can feel safe to share what they go through, and create community with one another. 

It was really shocking when we asked them to draw thought compelling images that would reveal to us their relationship with God and their perspective. Each time a majority of women drew the same thing: a house with flowers in the mountains. It seemed as though life on the mountain is all that they know.

It was even more shocking to see what happened when we asked them to get to know one another. Conversation seemed to be a foreign topic to them. They truly didn't know how. 

We had the women write down situations that they need to seek forgiveness in and move on from - we burnt them.

I turned 26 on the mountain! Some teammates organized a birthday scavenger hunt for me since we were so far from civilization for my birthday.

Featuring the most humble birthday dinner of my life.

We made paintings for the community center and for some of the woman who work in the kitchen. We also helped build this deck/building and paint this sign!

Thanks for looking. :-) There's honestly so much that went down on that mountain, I have much more to share. I will try to post another photoblog soon!

All the love,

Lindsey