A quieter morning. Wes found an app on my phone that will translate English into Spanish. It has been helpful. I will get out the Roseta Stone Spanish lessons I ordered three years ago and start learning as soon as I get home. I DO plan on coming back to Honduras.
This morning five of the team left to go home early. Four of them were the Pastor and his family from THE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH in Austin. The pastor is Donny. What a funny, funny guy. We call him Rodrigo for fun because he knows NO Spanish. Everything has an EL at the beginning of a sentence or an O at the end and he just hopes the people understand him. His sweet wife, Christina, use to be youth leaders before he became pastor of the church where they are now. He and his wife are great with all the kids here. The other person that left today is Tina. She was my roommate and is from Oklahoma. She is head of the technology department at the University of Oklahoma. What a great roommate to have! She is who showed me how to get the pictures to you all. She and I had our tears this morning!! The five had to get back to the states but the rest of us are here till Sunday.
At the mission this morning, we all played with the kids in the street our front of the mission. There is always a guard with a gun there and he watches every move. He is friendly to us but very firm with who can and cannot come into the mission. I will be buying a hand made leather purse from the ladies that do leather work here. They will make them how every you want them and all the money goes to them. That is great because that is how they support their families. Watching how these people live make us appreciative to live in the states but also so aware of the waste of so much stuff we accumulate. I talked with Shelly, the head of the mission, about supporting Kimberly. She is going to track down her family tomorrow morning and bring them to the mission to tell them of the support for her. I cannot wait to tell Kinberly. All the people at the mission says she is a sweet girl but her mother has not shown interest in getting education for her. That is usually their only ticket out of Magote. I worry about Kimberly as the gangs are bad in Magote and one mother's two daughters were shot and killed in front of her house during gang violence. Please pray for Kimberly and her family.
After the mission we left for the pewter factory. I was amazed!!!! It is awesome. To watch the pouring, casting and hand polishing of the pewter was so interesting. Then to go into the store was even more amazing. It is full of beautiful pewter dishes, crosses, candle holders, jewelry, ect. There money exchange is one of our dollars to 10 of theirs. So.....I could buy a beautiful dish or hand polished pewter that was marked 200 limps and pay $10. It is scary to see a bill for 2,350 limps. But.......When you do the exchange, not so bad.
The we went to the big city mall for lunch. All our fast food places were represented there. At every doorway and inside the mall are guards with BIG guns. Not little hand guns. BIG guns. Shot guns kind of guns. Even our drivers carry guns. Barbed wire is at the top of each building and you see guards with guns at the dirve up lanes for the banks. Another world....
We came back to the hotel for some downtime. We will have three hours before we go to dinner. Man, they eat a lot and often here. I am feeling like a blimp! The problem is is that it is all sooooo good. At the mall, one of the other team members and I had a big salad. We both needed vegies. As we were eating the salad, we realized the lettuce was washed and still wet. YOU DO NO DRINK THE WATER HERE!!!! Even brushing our teeth, we use bottled water. Taking a show.....You need to keep your mouth shut and not drink any of the shower water. So.....We were concerned about the lettuce. Well.....If you don't see either of us coming home with the team, you may know why. We will be suffering from Montezuma Revenge.
Back at the hotel Wes and I got to talk to and see Elizabeth, Tripp and Tate on Google View. We warned them that they better have the washing machine ready to do a lot of work or be ready to burn clothes. We are running out of clean ones.
Tonight we will go to dinner as a group and then back to the hotel for devotions. We have as a group each morning and evening. It is wonderful because each person takes a turn. The devotions are to be about what God is showing them while here in Honduras. We are all learning so much and our lives are being changed forever. I never thought I would say this but I am going to start a Face Book account just to for future Honduras trips.
Blessings to all of you! I feel like Moses coming off the mountain. There are no words to express our experience here.
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