Loving the Least of These

This morning I was laying on my bed working on a couple of things when I heard something that sounded much like the shower running...so I kept working and about 30 seconds later I looked up to see David running down the hallway with water dripping off of him. Then I heard him telling Jen to hurry and turn off the water supply to the house.  Side note- when we first moved into our house we didn't have water for the first two days and we searched and searched for the pipe where we can turn the water on and off and never found it, but someone came and turned on another switch, and we now have water. So anyways, David went running back down the hallway, so I jumped up and went into his bathroom to see that the toilet was spraying water all over the place. By this point the water had completely flooded David's bathroom and was quickly filling his room, so I picked up the valuable things off the floor and stood his mattress up and then ran through the house in search of a mop. By the time I left David's room the water had started working it's way down the hallway into my bathroom and bedroom. [This was only about 3 minutes after it started spraying everywhere, just to give you and idea of how much water was coming out, and how quickly.] I couldn't find the mop, so I grabbed a broom and went running back upstairs to find that the water was headed for Jen's room next. David was in his bathroom with a bucket under the water leak and was dumping the water into the shower to try to keep the flooding to a minimum. So Jen calls the landlord and he came to shut the water off in a matter of minutes. So the water stopped spraying...and we were left with a flooded house. In some areas there was at least two inches of water on the floor.  So while David was in his bathroom Jen and I stood in the hallway surrounded by water, and all we could do was laugh hysterically. We weren't too sure if David found this to be funny at this point, but every time he turned around we broke out into a silent laugh. It was pretty hilarious, and by the end of it we were all laughing about it. After the water stopped spraying we realized that there was a LOT of water in the house...and we weren't too sure how we were going to get it all out, because mopping wasn't an option, and we certainly don't have enough towels for the amount of water that was on the floor, so we decided that we would build a tunnel through Jen's room and sweep the water out the door in her room onto the patio. So for about 45 minutes we swept water out of our rooms,  and then turned on fans to dry the water that was still on the floor. It was an eventful morning to say the least, and we finally have everything cleaned up and our mattresses are in the process of drying. :) Never a dull moment in Honduras.