Wheels!

It is official. We officially have wheels. We love the truck and it is so nice to be independent. It is a '92 Toyota pick-up, 4 door, 4x4, diesel (which doesn't exist in the states). We are so blessed to be able to use this truck!

Since we now have an extra vehicle we decided to put the extra room to use. After church Sunday night we invited the teenagers to come home with us so that we could take them to a water park the next day. We had so much fun. We loaded up our two trucks with 12 of us in all, ate at Pizza Hut, hung out at our house, then the boys stayed with us and girls stayed with Amber. We headed out the next morning and made it to the water park, Aquasplash. It was a great park with slides, a wave pool, and everything. We had fun with all the teens and got to know them a little better. After the water park we took them with us to feed people down by the stadium Monday night and finally took them all back to Mogote. It was a great day.

This week is Semana Santa, Holy Week. The whole country takes a break this week. Even the Honduran Wal-Mart shuts down. Families go on vacation and visit relatives. It is similar to our Christmas Holiday. The only drawback for us during this Holy Week is that there are police stops on many roads throughout the city. They are similar to what we might have during the 4th of July. It is usually no big deal and not uncommon to get stopped by the police here for random checks, but this week you can barely drive 2 miles between stops. Most of the time police are very difficult and encourage "greasing" the wheels of justice. And often it is the only way to start the proccess of sanity and justice moving foward again. I am still learning that sometimes things are just done differently and there are different expectataions in foreign places. But such is life to people living in Honduras. You do what you have to do to survive.

On Tuesday we poured the foundation and laid one layer of bricks of the baptistry with the help of Darwin and Ariel's uncle Hector. We hit a small roadblock today because the water trucks that usually fill our barrel of water to make concrete were on their semana santa break, but we hope to finish soon and put it to use.

Last night we had another book club meeting with other local missionaries here. It was so good to be able to fellowship and laugh with each other. We realized that we all live within walking distance of each others houses, and all have a connection to Oklahoma! Small world.