second full day

Ammon
Today we went to a house were we sanded wood for beds, we are lucky in the U.S. I realized that all of us should be grateful for what we have not what we dont have. we went to a Cause for hope office and we were told that when a faimly heard that we were coming they cried, there dad has a kindey problem. a other faimly lives in a len two and we are also building a house for them they cried also. what I am doing is wonderful.

stephen
well today we went to a house were we sanded bed frames. the family made beds for a living. Now don't go off thinking that they buy supplies, no they have a friend who cuts wood from the mountains then brings it to the family. We would have blocks of wood and then we cut sand paper and held it together, not with glue we actually had to hold it together. It was realy hard but then we looked at some of the beds already made and they looked great. the family had been in the church for seven years. the father, fifteen days after joining the church declared elders qourum president seven years later he still is. we walked down to the church but on are way we saw a school it was so small it looked like a bathroom stall. They had pets to turtles geese chicens & most of all they had an aligator with turtles on it. you look behind you and there was a volcano with smoke coming out of it.Then we went to a meeting at another cfh office Pres. Jose Marrivia said that when you go home think about the beds. When you sleep on your soft comfy bed fluffing your pillow think about someone who dosen't have a bed. i think he is the greatest religeoes speaker I have ever met. Because he spoke from the heart and thats why it was so great. his prayer is so unselfish he cares about every single one of his people, and i belive that he does care about the city. then we went to town to get a watch. then we went to look for a store and me and ammon ended up geting two pocket knives whitch were awesome by the way then we went to the van and high tailed it to the hotel were we ate dinner with the other group down there. then we played simaller game to wack the mole. You would have sombody in the middle with a rolled up news paper then everybody else would sit in a circle anyways if you where name was called out you would have to say somebodey elses name in the circle if you don't say it before the guy with the news paper you get your it and that was realy fun.

The first full day

Ammon,

Today we went from Managua to Chendaga and on the way we went to a restaurant and when we got out there kids about my age were asking for are soda. I feel bad for kids in Nicaragua because there parents make only like 100 dollars or less a month. Also tonight I went into some peoples house and they were grateful for what they have. They make the best of what can do instead of worrying about what they can’t do. The food here has no sugar. It tastes much different than food does in America. It isn’t very good.

Stephen
It is amazing down here except for the tap water that’s realy bad. well we have gone all over today first we went to the market where I found a canteen that was the shell of a fruit& a leather
hat that makes me look like Indiana Jones. Then we went to a factory that made baseball gloves. My dad bought twelve of them to give to a primary in Choluteca. Then we went to a members house &they had just had a baby that was not going to live for long & they had so much faith in there heavenly father that the family knew he would live.

hearts touched

Wow there is so many people that care & I have found this personally at my elementry school. You are probably wondering why its amasing? People are so caught in money. I like to call it the money trance and when your in the money trance you stop caring about everything and you start thinking about what you have and stock and buissness and what you can get.
It takes a lot of effort to make something happen. Well its no problem for McM illan
Elementry!& this is why, Well at the end of my parent teacher confrence. My parents told my teacher Mrs. Weiss about CFH and she asked if she could do anything and my parents told her about the orphanege down their. after hearing this story you could see a smile trickle on her face that seemed to say I can do this, I can help.

First full day
Well I am sorry for not finishing my last entry so I’m going to finish it now…..
Well Mrs. Wiess told others about cfh. Then we got three classes in the sixth grade to make stockings for the orphanage. So I’m adding a friend to this blog, here he is………..

The meeting

Did you think that my story was over if you did you were wrong! My story has just begun. As I told you Dan Gifford is the owener and founder of Cause For Hope. he has set up a group of families to go to Central America like us. To learn about how the people live there & to do service projects that will help them for a long time. like building latriens.a way you can help is by donating clothes or money every week
if you have anymore ?'s go to: www.CauseForHope.com.but enough of

The Begining

I'm Stephen Colby i'm about eleven years old my mom is an insurance agent & my dad is the owener of davinci advertising. My dad is where it all starts, he is advertising a place called Cause For Hope. Cause For Hope is a charity for the people of Central America. the CFH website is CauseForHope .org but anyways, the leader is Dan Gifford. My dad liked CFH so much that he dissided to join them. In the summer they took my dad to Central America for a week! When me and my mom went to pick him up from the air port we where so lost we where all the way in the other terminal then we finally found my dad. My dad had so many stories to tell well a month had gone by and he decided to tell the familly. The stories where so real, so full of life that I couldn't stop listening. Now where all going to go down to Nicarauga this Christmas.