Everybody loves memory blogs, so I figured I would write one about my time in Central America! These memories are either good, bad, or really funny. And 1…2…3…
Honduras
-Staying as a squad
-The night our squad had worship nights and the joy of the Lord passed among them
-Praying over the boys family members in Los Pinos and walking up the extremely steep hills
-Joining the family time at the main house with Tony, Nidia, Cassie, and the boys
-Going to the river the last Sunday of the month with the boys and swimming
-The first time going to the dump: throwing up as soon as we got off the bus
-Second time: listening to the guy tell me about how he was shot five times and then raised back to life
-Being interviewed for a news station and newspaper in Tegucigalpa when doing "taking it to the streets"
-Kenzie and I discipling Maria de los Angeles
-Praying for the woman in Los Pinos that we all had gotten words about…
American food every day!
-Pizza Hut cutting off our Internet five minutes after we were done eating…and proceeding to turn it back on after we left.
Guatemala
-Riding a moped with Pablo, then with Pablo and Haley (meaning 3 people on one small moped)
-Watching the girls’ (Enma, Luisa, and Brenda) mother Alemania cry when talking about how much they didn't have and how stressed she was
-Movie night with the girls
-Worship nights with the team
-Praying for women in a church
-Working in greenhouses with Hugo and sweating my butt off, but learning a lot about growing plants in the process!
-Praying for a blind man selling peanuts with lime on the streets of Parramos with Eddie
-Eating food that one of the women from the villages made named Patti
-Walking the mile and a half to worke
-Going to the bakery to buy chocolate vanilla muffins…every day.
-Corn festival at old Mayan ruins out in a meadow
-Going to the cross in Antigua that overlooks the whole city
-Napping in the greenhouse and at a school when we painted it one day…we were tired.
-Roosters crawling on our roof…proceeding to wake us up at 4 and 5 in the mornings.
-Celebrating Independence Day for Guatemala, by listening to fireworks every night and every morning for 3 weeks.
-Ministering to our neighbors which were a family of 3 young girls and their mother
Nicaragua
-Almost getting robbed in the barrio (neighborhood, also known as "hood")
-The ant fiasco number one…using fire to get rid of the ants
-The ant fiasco number two…let's try evacuation this time!
-Doing Insanity under the pavilion
-Going to the beach and feeling like I was at home for a day!
-Going to the barrio to collect children to play for the day on Sundays
-Eating the weirdest foods so far on the race…spine of a chicken anyone?
-Translating whole church services
-Having to go meet the locals at night in the town to be able to translate for a teammate who doesn't know any Spanish
-Going grocery shopping with the locals for the 2 teams
-Riding in the teeny-tiny tuktuks
-Celebrating Independence Day with the Nicaraguans
-Edgar who lost his home
-Drunk man named Edward who cried in Gabe's arms
-Cooking spaghetti with Haley for both teams and the Nicaraguans..you would never know that beef was so hard to pull apart until you had to do it for the meat in a spaghetti
-Having my own personal puppy for the month named Brixy!
-BUG BITES galore…..!!!!
-Playing in a soccer tournament
-Participating in a pinata game to celebrate our last night in Nica!
Heading to Europe on the 1st of October with a brand new team (which I will talk more about later)! Hello, Romania! Please pray for our time in Romania and for what God's going to do in us this month. I also need about $780 to be fully funded! Please consider supporting me financially so I can finish out my race!
