I left home two months ago.
If you have been trying to keep up with what I am doing, you have probably been struggling because I have been struggling with keeping people updated.
Here is a little rundown to catch you up on Month 2 and a declaration that I will try to do better in the future:
I rode on hot bus with more people than seats for a 10-hour bus ride that turned into 22.
The A-Squad reunited at Valle de Angeles in Honduras for the first debrief, and I really enjoyed getting back together with everyone and getting to know people better.
We took another bus ride, much shorter, to Talanga (also in Honduas) for our new ministry site. The squad stayed all together at Aarons Missions Outreach, where the Joy Bombs and Awakening worked together with pick axes and shovels to start the process of building a security fence.
We also helped them with church services, teaching Sunday School, singing, and preaching. We tried to teach the armor of God to a group of children that did not really know what armor was.
We rode down mountain rodes to church in the back of a truck or in a trailer with an atmosphere that reminded me of hay rides with my cousins as a kid.
We stood on the bank of a little river and watched as a 90-year-old blind woman got baptized as well as two other members of my squad.
All 50 of us lived together in a house for over two weeks and got to experience community in a new way. And I had a lot of fun.
I rode a large stuffed cow around the mall in Tegucigalpa with some pretty fun people.
We traveled 10 hours to Granada, Nicaragua to spend a few days doing leadership training.
I kayaked on the lake in Granada with some members of my squad. We kayaked to monkey island, (where monkeys live) and we stuck a straw in a coconut and drank it. It was gross.
Then I came to Palacaguina, Nicaragua, where we sleep in our tents in a church that spiders believe belongs to them.
We are now working with a ministry called 516 Now, and we are doing more construction so far and attending church services.
