The Zoo and Your Poo(h)

I am finally at my second home! Hannah and I had the same feeling pulling into the Mission House with tears of joy in our eyes. We left the hotel in Choulteca for church in Agua Augris at about 8:20. On the road to church we popped on of our tires, but we just said Welcome to Hinduras and went along with our plans, luckily it was an inner tire otherwise it would have been a bit more difficult. When we arrived I spent some time leading singing and reading John 3:16 with the kids. Jeremy spoke at church about how fragil our lives are. He gave many examples of people who had their lives taken from them too early in their lives. Everyine had a number and throughout the lesson he would call numbers as though their final day had come. He would say number 12, 47, are you ready. It was very eye opening to think that at a moments notice you could be gone and we need to be ready at all times because "We are not staying here. We are going home."

After church we began our 3 hour bus ride back to Tegucigulpa, which took a bit longer due to our one flat tire. On the bus ride we sang, slept, talked, and played spades. About half way on our trip we stopped at the zoo! It was amazing! We were able to hold hands with a monkey, feed ostriches, and see many other animals.

At the bottom of the mountain we stopped for dinner. My group went to pizza hut. Then we were finally minutes away from the Mission House. After pulling on campus we unloaded the luggage, had a short orientation, and had our devo. Wyatts devo was entitled "Where is your Poo(h)". He talked about how his child a few years ago (3years old) was helping to sort toys. Eventually the child realized he would not be getting these toys back because they were going to a child with no toys. He left and came back with his Pooh Bear toy, his favorite toy. He wanted to give his best, something that so many times is the most difficult thing to do. We often are willing to do good things but are we giving our best or are we coasting through giving what we have to? Give your pooh, do your very best in everything.

Our breakfast guests

 Kids at Agua Augria

  Kiddos found this setting on my camera.

  Long bus rides make people get comfy for a nice nap.

  THE ZOO

  My group at pizza hut.

Jurassic Park Without the Dinosaurs

Today was an easy day. We were able to sleep in, which for Tricky was waking up at 4:00 for coffee, I slept 
till about 6:00. We left for Mission Lazuras at about ten thirty, the drive out there was beautiful. We arrived just
in time for a delishious lunch, then we listened to Jared talk about how he began the mission, and finally some
of us got to go on a tour of the land which included the coffee fields! We loaded up trucks and landrovers, the
ride was quite bumpy! It was amazing to see the land, the mission has really grown since I was last there i n 2007.
A few people described the land as a Jurassic Park without the dinosaurs and I couldn't agree more. It was so
beautiful. At one point we walked through some of the coffee fields, thank goodness we had someone leading
the way, otherwise we would have gotten lost for sure! Then we got to see some of the equiptment that is used
to sort the good and bad coffee beans. We were then each given a fresh cup of coffe, I was a proud aunt seeing
Angel try coffee for the first time. However now I am not sure how she will drink normal coffee. 


After our tour we left for the hotel. We stopped for dinner at the mall again. Angel and I had pizza and the  I
got myself another frozen yogurt, not to worry I took a picture this time. Devo tonight was amazing. We began
by discussing people in the bible who have amazing obedience. Some of those we discussed included Daniel, 
Abraham, Job, Noah, Ester, etc. Then Wyatt discused how he would want to be obedient like the storm in Mark 4.
This is the story where Jesus was asleep on the boat and his disciples became afraid of the storm and woke Him.
Jesus simply said to be still and everything was quiet, his disciples replied in Mark 4:41 "Who is this that even
the wind and the seas obey Him."

Tomorrow we will be going back to Tegucigulpa after church in Agua Augria. I will continue blogging but the
internet at the missionhouse is not near as reliable as here so do not be surprised if I miss a few days.



 Morning Devo

  Don't worry about your kids, our drivers got this.

  Leather workers, the one on the bottom is only 15 but one of the best leather workers they have.

Coffee fields!

The man in charge of the coffee fields.

Tricky in his natural habitat.

  Coffee Beans

  I have converted my niece to be a coffee drinker!

  Amazing View

A town in Nicaragua 

The best frozen yogurt.

My roomies.

When it rains it pours!

Our group has shrunk. Today we lost three members of our team. The doctors from the US, Bobby and Asha,  who were here for the medical center had to go back for prior commentments they had. We also lost Dr. Panco, now he is an interesting man. Dr. Panco is a Honduran doctor we met at the airport on Tuesday. After talking with himhe told us he was free the next two days and he jumped rigt into be a part of our group. He voulenteers all year, going from village to village helping with different medical clinics and not only that he was also an Olympic finalist. In the 1980's he ran in the final of the 400 meter.

Bobby and Asha left for the airport at about 3:00am and Dr. Panco left for his next clinic around 6:00am. Th team started waking up aroung 6:30-7:00 to get started for our day. We left for Agua Augria at about 8:30 after loading the truck full of the food we would be breaking down. When we arrived at the church we broke into teams: construction, food, and clothing. I worked with the clothing team. We quickly began "organizing" the clothing i to womens, mens, and childrens. While we were doing that the food team was breaking down the food into smaller bags that will allow a family of 5 to eat for about a week. It took us most of the morning to accomplish all the organization, then the real fun began! Families began entering, each family revieved an outfit for every person, a food bag, a hygine pack, and a Spanish Bible. Even with the organization it was very difficult looking for clothing, we had tons of shirts but we lacked on pants, shorts, skirts, etc. Somewhere around 1:390 I looked at my phone and realized that I still hadn't ate lunch, so I took a break for my lunch. Soon it started raining...now I am not talking about a sprinkle...it was pouring! With the tin roof we had a difficult time hearing anything that was being said, but on the bright side the language barrier was gone since no one heard anyone! The rain in many ways was such a blessing because it reall cooled down the area. A few of us even went out to cool off in the rain, which was fantastic! Around 3:00 I went out to help load the truck with the extra medicion we had left (we are doing another medial center in Tegucigulpa). We had a bunch of kids who were so excited to help us load the truck and bus. They were in our assembly line laughing and giggling througout the entire process. It was great seeing the excitment on their faces. After loading the bus I was able to play with the kids some before going back to help with clothing. We played the had game Este el sal juego for a long time, the kids always seem to love that game!

At 4:00 I went back to help with the clothing again. There was one little girl that just melted my heart when she recieved her outfit. We gave her a beautiful black and pink dress with flowers and her face just lit up with joy. At 5:00 we had to leave, those working with us at the church took over to had out food and clothing for the line that was still formed outside the church. All together we handed out clothing to about 300 people and we had food bags for 150 families.

In the evening we went to the mall for dinner. I had some chinese, it was very tasty. Then we walked around the mall and I was super excited to see a frozen yogurt place that has the best ice cream! At this ice cream shop you choose a fruit and they hace the actual friuit frozen, then it is crushed and mixed with some frozen vanilla yogurt, it is SO good! I would have taken a picture but I was so excited I forgot, I will next time we goto the mall. :-)

At devo Wyatt talked about Peters obedience in God. Peter was the only one who was willing to go out on the water with Jesus. He was the only one who put his obedience in action by going and walking on the water for a short time. His focus did falter a little when he took his eyes off Jesus but even then he cried out for help and Jesus was there to catch him. Many times we have faith in Christ but our focus can be broken and we will falter. The most importsnt thing is that we must always look back to Christ because he will always be waiting to welcome us back with open arms.

 
Sorting clothing.

Hannah, Abby, and Katie getting the food bags ready.

- Shoes and clothing ready to be given away

- A family recieving clothing.

- This little girl was so excited to get this dress, she lit up the room with her joy!

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Bob and Tricky working on putting fans up in the church building.

- The rain storm!

- Tricks got a new best friend, he really is a softy :-)

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