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Saturday, August 9th - Early or on time all day! (Includes showing up at the airport, and all our flights.) So easy to get through customs in Honduras with luggage. (Had to wait forever, and we only had one checked bag each this year.) Big group meeting at the airport - several teams all riding together. Not happy about riding on the "jump seat" the whole time. Until I saw the last team in the back of the trucks - sitting on luggage.
Flat tire on the bus (large van) not too far from San Isidro. Just pulled into tire place & got new tire. Quick service and back on the road in 20 minutes. (See pictures below...)
(I love this one - the guys with their opinions)Vineyard ladies stayed in Esther House - third year I've been in that house. But this time all 7 of us are in the same room. Half were supposed to do showers at night, the other half in the morning. We split up, but then all of us ended up taking showers that night. Did I mention there were no lights in the showers or toilets? (Cold showers feel better after a long day than first thing in the morning - even in the dark.) I think there was a creepy crawly in mine - salamander?
Spam for dinner!Our group did dishes after dinner. All 13 of us working together, having fun. What a great team! Tomorrow all 3 groups, about 60 people, up on Ambassador Mountain. Wonder how that will go. (In previous years we came in on Friday or Sunday and didn't go up the mountain with other groups.) Our group will probably go slow to stay together. If we're the last up the mountain, will we get to sit on benches or end up in the dirt? (Bad attitude...)
Sunday, August 10th - Hike up Ambassador Mountain with 57 people. We were last group up, but still waiting on Miguel, so no one was waiting on us. We got seats, many men stood, we all fit! Started off with singing - beautiful with so many voices singing together!! Mostly hymns, and ended up "God is so good." Miguel tried to teach us a song, but forgot the words. So much more fun with a bigger group!
Miguel's words reminded me, it's not about me, it's about Jesus. I'm just the ass (donkey) Jesus has chosen to carry him. So this year my rock (that we threw off the mountain) had ego & pride on it. I'm not great, God is.
Tour around village was good - took long even though most of us have been there before. (Half of us have been there more than once before.) Have to share a couple of my favorite pictures...
See the littlest girl? Dr. Michelle (the one taking the picture) did an ultrasound on her 2 years ago. Pretty cool!!
This little boy was getting a drink of water. The look on his face was too cute...
The only way to get over to the dairy - right now. A team will be building a bridge to make transporting milk & cheese so much easier.
Got to see new dairy, skipped the school this year. Took crazy truck ride with German Pinel. Went across creek (in the back of the truck) and had to stop. Guys had to get out and walk up the road. Girls rode in back of the truck and went another (slightly smoother) way. (See pictures below.)
Up to tilapia ponds and chicken farm. Didn't get out of the truck this year (had a headache) but saw them get some fish out - which we later tasted! (See pics below.)
Pineapple for lunch (I believe German got it for us so that we'd have some before we left), peanut butter sandwiches & BBQ chicken, I think. Surprised Deborah about her family's new house, she was so excited! (Deborah is a student at the School of Discipleship. The house we built is for her family.) Just figured out that I can upload the video...
Deborah rode out to El Quebracho with us so she could see her family. (She went home the next day.) Got to hotel & got showers - got ready for church. Our tub filled up (wouldn't drain), the window in the bathroom was open and wouldn't close (it's hot & humid and they were burning trash outside the hotel). When we got there we had no towels and no toilet paper. Frustrating! Got to dinner late with everyone waiting on us. (We ended up getting a different room the next day.)
Deborah wanted to surprise her family so she waited in the van at the church. We got her mom, dad, and sister together and told them we had brought something for them from Deborah. And then she came out of the van. They were so happy to see her!! She hadn't been home for 3 months and they weren't sure when they'd see her again. She only got to stay with her family for one night, but that was enough.
So wonderful to be at the church again! We remembered so many kids' names. They remembered us too. (A few remembered my name, which was just awesome!) The kids wanted so badly for me to take their pictures. I got them all against the wall and got some pictures. They wanted to see the viewer & so many had their hands all over my camera. I was completely surrounded by kids and I wanted to talk to some of the adults, so I got their attention and said "sientense" - and they all ran and sat down! Amazing!
Church started and they brought out kids holding a sign for us that said "WELCOME SISTER CHURCH"
Then 3 kids did a dance to a song on a CD (that ended up skipping, so they had to end it early). We did some worship (they've improved so much since last year!!) and then Kevin preached. Many came up for prayer. Then they had offering & announcements. After church we went back to the hotel and crashed.
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