Joy, Family, Blessed

Our first full day in Honduras! What a blessing it is to be back, it really feels as though I never left.


Today we went to church at the Los Pinos congregation. Around 8:30 we left Villa Gracia. At church Terry spoke about the importance of our eternal life and how we need to be focusing on it instead of the short earthly life. He used a long rope, maybe 40ft and had part of it going out the window and down the road and the other end lead up to the pulpit. Holding about 6 inches of the rope he went over how short this physical life is and how all of our being should be striving to get to the eternal life with God when this life is over. Sadly in our world too many people are focusing on this short physical life; they are focused on making this life as fun, exciting, etc as they can and therefore they are going to lose out when it comes to the big picture. As Christians we must do all we can to not only get ourselves to the other side of the line after this life but also to take as many people as we can with us. Terry used a great story that really got me thinking; imagine you are on a boat and you are singing praises to Jesus because you are one of the people who are going to the other side of that line, however many people are out in the water drowning because they do not have Christ, they do not know who he is. All of those people are calling for help but we simply sit and continue singing. If we do not work to get more and more people to God then they do not have the hope of a life after this one.

The congregation in Los Pinos. 

Terry and Frank giving the sermon. 

This cutie was making googoo eyes with all throughout the sermon. 

A slight side note to anyone reading this blog. We are currently collecting for a woman at the Los Pinos congregation. Her husband passed away unexpectedly at an accident last week. She has a 1 week old baby. If anyone is interested in donating to this cause and knows one of the TORCHers who is coming down Tuesday please give to them and we will be sure to get it to her. She really needs our help at this time. 

After church we packed up and went to Mi Esperanza. The Florida Keys group is only here for the week, therefore today was the only shopping day that they will really get. They have a new campaign this year called do good wear good. You will surly see the hashtag for it blowing up Facebook if you are a TORCHer. The campaign is focusing on the importance of knowing where the goods you buy come from and knowing that by buying that good you are promoting good work.

Around 1:30 the Florida group left for the Valley of Angles and the remaining 11 or so people worked on organizing the warehouse and painting some of the Mi Esperanza store front. It really did spruce up the area with the blue that we added.

Before

After

Myself and Diana painting at Mi Esperanze.

When the Florida Keys group came back we went out for dinner. (The ladies in the kitchen have the day off on Sunday.) Most of us ate at this little burger joint, they had really good burgers! After the burgers we went over and had some ice cream. Then came back to Villa Gracia for devo. At devo Terry had us write down 3 words to describe our day, the three words that are the title were the most used words that the group wrote. 

The plan today is to travel to Mololoa. We will be building a house, working at the daycare, and working in the feeding center. 

Everyone out there reading my blog feel free to make comments! I would love to hear from you! =D