Loving the Least of These

Yesterday around lunch time we headed out to Nuevo Oriental which has become one of my favorite villages here. We got there a little after 11 which meant we were just in time to help serve lunch at the feeding center. Our main reason for visiting was to check out the house sites that Ashley's group will be working on in a couple weeks. So a couple kids led us to the house sites and held us up as we slid down the dusty hills. Then we hiked back up the mountain to the feeding center to help the sweet ladies serve some hungry kiddos. After we got done handing out the food I sat down at a table with some of the kids and a lady named Mercedes walked up to me asking if we would please build her a house. She explained that she had two kids and her sister living with her and every time it rained the water came into their small house and the wind whipped through the cracks in the wall. So after lunch we walked back down the mountain to check out the site and on our way there we saw another house that looked pretty bad. There was a young woman standing in the door way and we asked if we could check out the house and see if there was anything we could do to help and she told us that it wasn't her house the owners were just letting her live there because she doesn't have a house. This lady has three kids but two of them can't live with her because she can't afford to care for them. The owners came out and let us into the house and it turned out to be better than we thought. And they also told us that if we'd build this lady a house she would donate part of her land behind their house for us to build it on. We are getting paperwork from both of the families so hopefully we can get them a house when we have a group down here...or when we raise enough money to build it. :)

Praying before lunch

Mercedes house

Their bathroom

Inside the house

some of my kiddos  :)