The Little Yellow House

As many of you are aware, we have been on a search for a rental house for a period of several months.  

Then, when we stopped trying, when we weren't looking, when we didn't have time to look... God provided a house!

The woman sitting next to me on the plane coming back to Honduras said she had a brother living in the town of La Paz where we looking to find a house. Her brother actually ended up living about 15 minutes outside of La Paz in a little town called Humuya.

A few days later, when we were in the middle of our first ever little short term team from the states, she invited us out to her brother's house. Her brother knew someone, who knew someone, who had a house for rent.

The little yellow house sits on the outskirts a little town!

So, off we went with this woman's brother's friend in our truck and he took us to a beautiful brand new house that was available to rent!! Praise the LORD who provides!!

The house was originally white on the outside and unpainted on the inside.

Both the living room and the kitchen have arches into them.

They said that they would paint the inside and that it would all be white... which was fine with us.

Moca and olive green are the colors of our master bedroom.

Obviously, there was a change of plans and the house ended up with a little more color!  Every room has a combination of two colors; yellow, orange, moca and olive green.

Steps on the back of the house are not quite finished

As we were expecting a white house all the color was a bit shocking at first, but it has really grown on us!

There's a yard!  Not typical in Honduras.

The house has actually in construction for eight years and we've found a couple things that aren't quite right. Like we can't use the kitchen sink yet because it drains into the cabinets an on to the floor. And, the fun we've had with carpenter ants seemingly exploding from some of the doors! But, these are all little things that can be fixed and they haven't taken away our joy in what the Lord has provided!!

We see lots of burros, horses and ox carts passing our house!

One of my favorite verses is Psalm 127:1,

"Unless the Lord builds the house, the laborers labor in vain..."

I would change it for this situation to be:

'Unless the Lord provides the house, the house hunters seek in vain!'

Blessed be the Lord!