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We have a dog!! This is Ranger. He is three months old. A family in Mogote gave him to us and we love him... although we are still trying to get him to go to the bathroom in the grass instead of on the concrete garage... (there isn't much grass in Mogote so he was quite scared of it.)

This is Ranger helping me make angel wings for the Christmas play.

Things of Navidad

I am so excited about the Christmas Pageant in Mogote. Amber has written a script in Spanish, found a Christmas CD to teach the kids some songs to sing in the pageant (Christmas Carrols are not common knowledge down here) and found some costumes buried in the bodega. This week we bought some fabric to make a curtain to go acorss the front of the stage in the church, and also some angel costumes. We started to teach the kids the songs we plan on singing in bible class and showed them a costume. All 56 kids in class were super excited. I am too. It should be really fun. William is working on a manger and making some kind of support for us to hang the curtain on from the rafters. December 20 is the big day. I can´t wait.


Ice skating in Honduras? Yes.

So one night we were at the mall buying groceries at Hiper. We saw a large crowd of people gathered around watching something. We got closer and realized they had build an ice skating rink in the middle of the mall!! Now, you may ask, isn´t it warm there, and the mall is open air right? These were our question exactly but with further investigation (Will touched it) we dicovered that this was not ice that the people were skating on, it was just really slippery plastic they were skating on with ice skates. Sometimes I just smile and say, oh Honduras, I love you.

A Post from Will

It's been a while since the last post, things have been crazy around here. Not a bad crazy, but busy crazy. Last week we had 10 kids living at Amber's house. That seemed like a month; we had a blast with the kids but kinda overwelming at times. This week we had a group here from Illinois/Indiana of 5 people. They work mostly with a church in Izopa. Izopa is a little spread out village located in the beautiful mountains that give Tegucigalpa its namesake "Silver Mountains." I had never been to Izopa before this week. The people are a little more shy than in Mogote where we usually work. Though still as welcoming and seemed happy to help a few gringos. The group consisted of a farmer(Larry), an ex-farmer(Jim), a lady who brought 6 bags of stuff to give away(Nancy), a preacher(Abe), and chef(Robert). Most of what we did there was help shuffle the group from cornfield to cornfield as they did research to try to determine what was the best type of corn to plant. Rachel and Amber did most of the translating, but I got my feet wet a few times. And no fights errupted or noone did anything crazy that I asked them to... so that is a success in my book at this point in my Spanish journey. We saw 14 ft. corn which doesn't really exist in the states. Hopefully some good will come of this week's work there. And more fruits will come of their labor. Also we organized a few soccar games and of course tried to manage the mass chaos. The highlight of the week... one of the highlights was getting to camp saturday night in the open church building. If I haven't metioned it before. I'm not from the city so any chance to get outside of it is awesome for me. Every direction you look mountains, green, and blue skys. We actually saw the stars for the first time since we've been here. It was quiet and just nice. We sat around the camp fire and talked and joked and sang and made smores with our brothers and sisters only seperated by nothing. It was amazing fellowship in probably one of the most beautiful places in the world. I can't say enough about that. We also got to visit a cave that was probably 30 feet long where the preacher mines for slate. What a good week to work with new friends from the U.S. and in Honduras for one purpose. Wish we could post more pictures here, but we will soon. That's all for now.