We have safely made it to Honduras! We arrived to stop one of our journey at around 11pm Saturday March 3rd. This was after being on a bus for 15hours, stopping for "directions" once, dropping half the squad off in the capital, fixing a broken belt on the bus on the side of the road, unloading our stuff from the big bus to get into a little bus, and then freezing(or burning up because your seat was right by the engine) for another hour on the smaller bus before pulling up to some house where they told our team to get out at.
Yep, welcome to the World Race.
We spent 2 nights in La Esperanza ( sleeping in beds!!!) loading up on food and supplies before heading up to the mountains to a barrio named Rio Colorado. We set up our casitas ( what the locals call our tents, translates it means little house) at the home of Virgilia and Roman and their cute 1 1/2 year old Nahmun.
We are blessed with 4 different ladies everyday who come in and help cook our food, do our laundry, and bring us lunch wherever we may be that day.
This week has been full of lots of activities. On our first full day in Rio Colorado we were dropped off at the bottom of a "hill" and told to climb up to the school where we would be teaching that day. So we started climbing, uphill, and very shortly after came across a school with kids waiting outside to welcome us… Or so we thought. We start to make our way into that school when our guide for the day, Alba ( who I should mention was carrying her 22 pound daughter on her back all day) said this was the school and we needed to keep going. What anyone failed to tell us was that the school we were going to was a 2 HOUR hike, UPHILL, on this mountain! Yep, I climbed a mountain on my first day of ministry in Honduras. It was one of the hardest things I have ever done! But getting to meet the people at the top of the mountain was incredible. (I'll be writing another blog on some of the people we have meet and things God has been doing so look for that one too!)
Wednesday and Thursday we went to two other schools, not quiet so far or hard to get to but just as fun. This week we shared with the kids the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000. We stared the story, the gospel, and played games with them.
On Friday and Saturday we got to work with another Missionary group who are here for 8 days from Texas. They are building a house for an elderly couple and their son. So we helped moved cinder blocks off the truck on to the ground to be counted, then onto a pickup truck in loads of 45 blocks to be brought down to the construction site. We also leveled the dirt on the ground and dug a hole for the porch. Just as we finished said hole we were told they were moving the front door and we needed to fill back in the hole. Good thing we are now experts at digging holes only to refill them! But in all seriousness it was awesome to help this other team! And have other Americans around to speak English to!
I cannot believe we have only been in the country a week! It feels like so much longer. It has been a really hard week , physically, spiritually, and emotionally. But it has been so good at the same time. Because of where we are in the mountain, with no electricity, I am learning to use God as more of my outlet than running to my music. I have daily, long conversations with Him, and he is teaching me so much. I am beginning to grow my eyes to see people as he sees them and to love as he loves.
So that is a little update as to what I have been doing this week. We only have Internet access on Monday when we come to town for our Sabbath, but I'll try to keep you all updated in what's going on here!
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