Cribs Honduras

I tried to upload the video but I guess we made it too long, so we'll have to edit it and try again later. We absolutley love the house. This week we have been busy getting essential things like shower curtains, trash cans and a fridge, and also working on getting our alarm not to go off every 30 minutes or so (the owner forgot the code so we would just turn the breaker off, but then we didn't have electricity...) haha. We had it fixed and got a new code so hopefully our neighbors will forgive the extremely loud wake up calls.

Yesterday we met our neighbor across the street who was having a garage sale (I found a great deal on a toaster oven). She was an American from Arkansas who has been here for nine years and has started a school for the deaf, and has adopted a couple of Honduran kids. She seems like a really neat lady. Small world, cool neighbor.

So this is a fun story. We took Ariel, Darwin, and Fernando to watch the Honduras national team play Jamaica in soccer at a local restaurant. It is quite a lively place to watch a soccer game. When Honduras scores everyone jumps around and sings the same song and cheers, it is really fun, even if you don't like soccer. At the table next to us a girl asked me in perfect English if I played soccer (I was wearing an OC soccer shirt). That is how I met my new friend Ruth. We got to talking and she has played with a college in Boston. After the game was over I asked her if she ever played soccer here in a league or anything (it is not very common to meet a girl who plays competitive soccer here). She said that she did and we exchanged numbers. I didn't think I would ever here from her again, but to my suprise she invited me to come play with her team. So I did yesterday. I was really nervous, I mean I had just met this girl at a restuarnt and I didn't know anything about this team. I had so much fun, we played against some boys in a gym at the Catholic University and I loved it. The girls were really nice. They asked me to come back and play every Saturday. It has been more than a year since I have played, or done much physcial activity, so today I can barely walk I am so sore, but a good sore, a familiar sore. Soccer is something I love and something I can do to meet people and get involved outside of church work. I am pumped.

I wish it would have been ants in my pants...

I am such a girl when it comes to cochroaches. I know this may come as a suprise to some of you who know me well, since all my life I have acted tough, but cucaraches are my enemy. I hate them. They make me scream like a girl. I know they don´t bite or anything but they terrify me. Experts say the best way to get over a fear is face it straight on... so living in Honduras I get to do that quite regularly.

But, I still wish it would have been ants in my pants. I can´t prove it, and I really hope it isn´t true but I´m pretty sure there was one in my pants. I had just laid down on the bed to read and I felt something kind of wet feeling on my calf so I lifted up my jeans to see what it was. I didn´t see anything so I laid back down to read. That´s when I felt the nasty creature crawling on my foot, swatted it off, screamed for my brave husband to come save me, and ran into the living room shaking.

Needless to say it was a little difficult to get back in the bed I had been attacked in but after making Will check it multiple times I was able to go to sleep. Haha!

Other happenings...

Xiomara had her baby boy! He weighed 8 pounds. He doesn´t have a name yet, which is fairly normal in latin american culture not to name a baby sometimes for a month or so. We got to go to the hospital the day he was born, the 15th, and visit her and Henry her husband. Xiomara is a neat lady that goes to church in Mogote who I have known since the first time I came here.

We are signing a contract today to move into our new rent house at 2¨00. I am so excited. Today we are going to go look for the essentials, a bed, a fridge, and a shower curtain.

Life is getting back to routine now. Yesterday we worked in Mogote finishing up the wall, the benches, and just doing little stuff around the church. We watched Honduras play Jamaica from a restaurant here with Darwin, Ariel, and Fernando. It was a really exciting environment to watch soccer in with the entire restaruant cheering and screaming.

We had a major decision to make with Amber and it looks as though we will be staying here in Teguc. However, this decision gave us a jump start to start a big project, the tech school. Also with Amber´s help I´d like to get a church soccer league going soon too.

It was so nice and encouraging to have Jessica and Jon here, family is a great thing that never goes away. It is so fun to show Honduras to people because it really is impossible to put into words. You just have to see it. So come visit.

Things are good in Honduras.

Familia.

It's been way fun having Jessica and Jon here. We have gotten to work in Mogote with them the past few days. Will and Jon have been building some more benches for the church building with lots of kids helping.

Jessica brought her supplies to be able to give manicures to some of the women. She is a mobile manicurist which is impressive. It's really neat to be able to sit houses and chat with the ladies and to see Jessica using her gifts to serve people. The women really loved it. The woman in this picture is 89 years old and have never painted her nails. She was pretty giddy about the whole thing, it was really cute.

Amber, Will and I have some really big decisions coming up about the work we are going to be involved in and possibly starting some big projects so if you could keep that in your prayers we would greatly appreciate it. Please pray for wisdom and guidance from God to go where he wants us and do what he wants us to do.


Mogote kids.

I can´t believe it´s been 4 weeks!

Wow, so since Amber has gotten here we have gotten quite busy. We have been looking for house and a car, which is so much easier with someone who speaks fluent Spanish and knows the area. We have looked at a couple of rent houses, one in the Miraflores colonia was really nice but didn’t have hot water and was a little far. The other house was in the Miramontes colonia but a little out of our price range and wasn’t as nice, so we are still looking.

For now we are staying at Amber’s house. It’s been fun being with everyone all the time, cooking together, and getting to know the boys even better.

Jessica and Jon are coming tomorrow! I am so excited. It will be so fun. I love showing people this place and the people I love. It will be so refreshing too, to be with family again. I am pumped.