One Whole Week In!

Sunday: 

Pancakes with the whole group at 9 in one of the gal's apartments – we played bananagrams and hung out :-) SUPER FUN!!!! After that though, I was feeling a little sick, so I rested until dinner – took a nap and took some drugs – both helped!! It was a bummer though, because I couldn't help with shopping, and I didn't get to practice slacklining. Ah well... After dinner I felt a LOT better, though not 100%. (PS dinner was chicken, potato salad, “real” salad, bread, and watermelon. A typical American meal, but I think I prefer the Honduran meals actually! More flavor, in my opinion)

Monday:

Thank God, Sunday was basically isolated and I didn't really feel sick today! Only a teensy bit in the morning, but it wasn't too bad :-)

We started Xan's fitness program today – we had a man, about 4 women and about 15 kids join us for some cardio – it was a lot of fun, and some of the participants seemed really grateful that we were doing it. I loved seeing how it was meeting a need in the community. Thank God it wasn't too hot – there was a strong wind which helped! After lunch, we played with at the orphanage – and I learned that the older girl there is named Vilma and is around 15 yo. The tía taking care of them right now is only 19! She´s just the substitute tía though – the current tías sister is on maternity leave right now. Still! That's a lot of responsibility! 

After chilling there for the majority of the afternoon, Taylor, Rachel, and Sarah played with some of the neighborhood kids while Xan, April and I wanted to talk to some of the women of the community some more. We ended up back at the house of Hilda (? we think... names are so hard to catch here!!!) – she's the woman who was super on fire for God that we met on Thursday. We spent about 45 minutes there, listening to her talk. We start with her family – her hijos (kids) in Orlando, bu it doesn't take long before she's telling us story after story about God's goodness and faithfulness and how he's provided for her so often in the past. It's a little hard to interact fully since she's speaking Spanish the whole time (plus her front teeth are missing!), but her passion is hard to miss! Plus, God helped out a lot today and gave me ears to understand Spanish better today :-) Yay!!! After talking with her, I felt like I would love to get to know all of the women at Casa Hogar a ton more! If you could, pray that Hilda helps us to be a light in the community – she's already doing a great job on her own, but pray that she would continue to be used for God's glory! Everything she told us, she always gave God the glory. I think all three of us left that house more encouraged and charged than when we came in. Oh yes.

Dinner was at Tollita's (sp?) house again (she's the cook). We had HOMEMADE PIZZA!!! It was delish! Oh, and I haven't talked about the sodas yet. Usually there's Coke or Pepsi, which is always gone by the end of the meal. There's also another kind of pop with it – either grape, banana, or lemon flavored. I hate the grape one, can stand the banana one, and really like the lemon one – it's basically my favorite drink mix in America – Lemonade and Sprite! Today we had Coke and Banana soda.

After dinner, Peggy led us in a Bible study about Joshua – it was awesome, and I was glad we got to have a deeper, more spiritual time with the whole group. Splitting for jobs means we get to know some people really well, which is great, but I like getting to know everybody better :-)

Tomorrow, we're going to try to develop some semblance of a schedule. However, this is Honduras, so we'll see how that goes :-)  Honduran culture is way more laid back than American culture. Ed (the director of Honduras LT) was saying that usually we'll have a speaker come in for a session on Thursday -- however, if the director shows up early, it may happen on Wednesday, or we may find out a few hours before it should happen that the session won't be happening till Friday. You just roll with whatever people want to do. It works fine for me! In a lot of ways, that's how it works at college :-)

Well it's official! I've been in Honduras for a whole week now! Craziness!

Prayer requests: 

Continued health of the group 

Clear direction from God for what we should do more specifically at Casa Hogar

The people of Casa Hogar, that they would draw closer to God this summer.