Grocery Shopping and Other News

 We just got back from worshipping with the church in Limonal. Jared, Cade, and Mark all led songs and did a great job. We learned that the whole congregation is taking a bus to Santa Fe this coming Sunday for worship. Santa Fe is a Garifuna village where one of the Limonal members wants to start a new church, and this is part of that effort. We are thinking about going along with them, if there is room on the bus.

 

The group has been working really hard this week, and the heat really gets to you after a few days. This afternoon, all of the teens took a much-deserved break. I walked down to the hotel from our apartment expecting to see them playing in the pool. Instead, every one of them was sprawled out on lounge chairs and hammocks. I think most of them were asleep. Leslie said a few of them got in the pool at first, but as soon as they cooled off they got right out and lay down. Sometimes the temptation here is to be on the move all day, every day. I’m glad they took a little time off in the middle of the week, so they can finish strong.

 

Tomorrow morning, the entire group will go to the school to teach Bible classes, and in the afternoon, they will go out to do some more work at Little Hands, Big Hearts. They have moved alot dirt and dug alot of holes. A few of the men are working a ceiling for one of the buildings at Little Hands, and that is coming along well. Tomorrow, I am having wood delivered to the school to put a ceiling in the 6^th – 9^th grade classrooms. We may do some of that labor on Friday, but most of it will wait until the next group.

 

Brian, Jared, Alfonso, and I went this morning to Tocoa to buy food. We bought enough rice, beans, potatoes, carrots, flour, and corn meal to feed the group for several days, should that become necessary, although I feel fairly confident it won’t be needed. We talked to the travel insurance company today, and they are making arrangements to get the group from here to San Pedro, if the roads are closed. My guess is that won’t be needed, but it’s nice to know someone is working on it. The group still plans to take a chartered bus on Monday to San Pedro, stay the night, and fly out on Tuesday morning. We made reservations for that night at a hotel that is only 2.5 miles from the airport. God willing, the group will be able to get to the airport and fly out without ever going into downtown San Pedro.

 

Thank you all for your prayers. We appreciate you following along with us and especially the comments on the blog. We read them all and share many of them with the group. It makes us all feel really good to know that you here with us in spirit.