The time is now

Well its been another month and i am just now updating the blog again. Sorry about that. I am not one of those people that like to say just just to hear myself talk so im not going to write ¨Well i shovled sand today.¨ So now you know that when there is a new post that means that there is something worth reading. With my time here in Honduras a little more than half way over, I was getting a little anxious about getting up to the villages and setting some filters up. The time finally came on September 23. I took two filters up to the village of Manguito and everything i needed to set them up and get them going. When we got up there, there was one main problem. Nobody was there. Some how somebody got there days confused and nobody was there to recieve us. We left all the materials there at the church and talked to one man about another time that would be good to come. We made our plans and then left. Two days later we decided that it would be good to go to another village to start a project there. This village is called Joconales. We went there and took 3 filters and the materials to set them up. In this village there were people waiting for us. All of the leaders of the village decided to come out and see what this water filter thing was all about. We all went inside the church and had a devotional time where we shared about the importance of water as well as the story about when Jesus talks to the Samaratian woman about the Living Water. After this lesson, Adolfo (a guy who is helping me), explained the water filter in great detail and how it was going to work. We then began to ask about good locations for the filters so that they would be safe and also be able to serve the most amount of people as possible. Here are the names of the house that will have the filters and how many familys will benefit from them:
*Carmelina Rodriguez (10 Families)
*Mirna Mejia (9 Families)
*Rodis Aguilar (6 Families)
*Oscar Perez (8 Families)
*Angela Arita (9 Families)
*Gladis Reyes (8 Families)
*Odin Reyes (8 Families)
*Ceter or Health
*School
*Pastors Home/Nutricional center/Church
*Moises Henrriquez (13 Families)
*Tino Henrriquez (10 Families)
*Balvino Devaz (15 Families)
*Neptaly Valle (15 Families)
*Santos Menjivar (12 Families)
--with all the filters in place and working, we should be able to provide clean drinking water to about 125 different families (over 500 people).

We traveled back to Maguito the 28th of September to take more filters and also have the same devotional time with them. Everything went alot better then the first time because this time the entire village was there. It gave us an opportunity to share the gospel and also our hopes/dreams about this clean water project. I do not have the names of the locations where the filters will be in Manguito yet but when i do i will be sure to put them on here.

Also please continue to pray for these filters. When we were in Joconales, the pastor asked us if we could set up one of the filters to let them see how it works. We agreed and began to fill it up with the needed materials. everything was going great until the last part. When we put the water in the filter, nothing came out. We took everything out and tried it again and the same thing happened. Then again and again it didnt work. I had washed the sand but apparently there was still way to much earth in the sand and it wouldnt let the water pass. Humiliated, i spent the next two days washing sand and trying it again and again and again. Finally, one time when i put water in the filter it came out. It had finally worked. I am excited about this and excited about going back to Joconales and fixing the problem. Please continue to pray for this project. Thank you and here are some pictures of what we are doing.