Month Number: Nine!
New Country: Tegucigalpa, Honduras
New Team: The Pursuit
New Teammates: Brianna, Laura, Lesa, Benita, Crystal, and Brie
New Hosts: Pastor Moises who plays duck duck goose with us with the kids!
(Stay tuned for my next blog to hear about how great Pastor is)
New Living Sitch: Tenting in an upstairs room of a community children’s feeding center
{^^ This has been my bed for the last nine months and
those are literally all my possessions to my name 🙂 }
New Fun Adjustment: Only getting running water twice a week and thus, resulting in bucket showers (if we happen to be gone when the water turned on) and flushing the toilet with buckets of water carried from a tub of saved water, and of course, hand washing our laundry. 🙂
New Ministry: Painting the feeding center kitchen along with a mural (pictures in next blog), cooking food for the children’s feeding center every morning, weekly home visits to the elderly and sick, speaking in from of church and the youth group, helping at a Compassion International center, visiting an orphanage for a weekend, leading worship, making food baskets for families, and attending home bible studies.
New Adventures: Exploring caves with our host and his sons on our day off.
New Find on the Race: Seatbelts!! (Only when you’re in the cab of the truck of course)
New Developed Skill: Making homemade tortillas
New Thing God is Teaching Me: Identifying areas of pride in my life and uprooting them at the source. Also, the beauty of the Podcast App and all the free sermons you can get! I’ve come to appreciate having a variety of pastors sermons to listen to and the effectiveness of having more than just one sermon, on Sunday morning, to listen to all week.
(This is church on the World Race, the Podcast App, speakers, and community amongst the tents)
New Friend: Gabriel, the happiest, friendliest kid I know. If you have the opportunity to donate to a medical brigade, DO IT. It saves children’s lives like sweet Gabriel who wasn’t suppose to live past infancy with all of his conditions. And now he runs around asking, “What’s this? What’s this? What’s that?” to everything like a normal little kid.
New Fun Fact: My teammates have found nine ways that I regularly lay in my hammock
