Tomorrow is our last day in Honduras. The other two teams in C Squad will be coming to La Ermita tomorrow, and all 40-something of us will be reunited at last! We have the day off tomorrow from work, so we’ll spend our day catching up with the people we haven’t seen, having a big family dinner of fried chicken, and wondering how we ever fit all our stuff into one backpack.
At 2 a.m. on February 1, everyone will strap on their backpacks and walk a mile down the road to a soccer field, which is the closest spot that has enough space to accommodate a charter bus. To deter anyone who would want to wake up at that hour to rob 45 backpackers, we will have a couple policemen escorting us there. We are all excited about our bus. Apparently, there are few good companies around here that will take passengers all the way to Guatemala. But this company was recommended to us, and we have been told to expect air conditioning, a toilet, and a shortcut that will save us 6 hours, putting our final travel time right around 15 hours.
We’ll travel on that bus to Antigua, Guatemala, where C Squad will have its first debrief. World Racers have about five debriefs over the course of the year, which are times for us all to relax in comparatively luxurious accommodations (like a hostel with internet and washing machines!), review the previous month’s ministry as teams, see our coaches and mentor for some counsel and teaching, hang out and be tourists, and most important, try to watch the Super Bowl.
My teammate Kelly once studied in Antigua and told us that it’s a beautiful city nicknamed “The Land of Eternal Spring.” We’ve only heard wonderful things about the place, and we’re all so excited to have some time off before diving into next month’s ministry.
What are we doing next month, you ask? I’ll tell you. In February, all of C Squad’s teams will be together serving at Agape in Action, a medical mission in Quiche, Guatemala. We’ll be working in the mountains to provide care and education to the Mayan people there. I don’t know the specifics of what we’ll do yet, but you can be praying for me. I expect working in a hospital to be completely out of my comfort zone.
My team can also use your prayers! Pray for our health. This last month we had no major issues, so we’re hoping that can continue. Pray especially for our sleep. The majority of us here in La Ermita have had an unusually hard time sleeping this month, which makes for draining days. And pray for unity on my team, Brazen Hearts. I think the best part of this month has been living with these five wonderful ladies, and we have certainly grown close by praying and talking and playing and working and thinking together. Pray that that too would continue.
I think that as the Race continues and this adventure becomes less of a thrill and more “normal,” it will be the thought of you, my dear family and friends back home, that will remind me what I’m doing. I feel isolated here in La Ermita, and I’m living with people I’ve never met, but I know that I’m not alone. Many, many people are with me, making it possible for me to follow Jesus in all these countries. So again, my supporters, THANK YOU for sending me to Honduras. I want you to know that I want to take our relationship just as seriously as the relationships here, and it is just as much an honor to write and stay in touch with you as it is to help here.
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