So another good day was had by all.
A group of us:
Sara, Jack G., Cole, Ricky, Raquel, Christian, Revonda, Beth V., Savanna, & Jessica P. Headed to the Museum in town....we warned them all it would be an interesting experience and it did not disappoint.
We played with the monkeys out back and waded in the river fed by a natural stream to cool off afterward. We also stopped by the grave of William Walker (look him up...interesting Trujillo history. Perhaps I should offer a prize to who finds out first who he was and why his death is significant to Trujillo and Honduras....hmmmmmm)
Anyway.....then we stopped by a local grocery store so I could get a few supplies for an afternoon activity.
Of course seeing things like that and just experiencing the culture here can be fun...the trip ended for some by a fully cultural experience....piling into a taxi. Jack, Cole, Sara, Savanna, Jessica and Revonda all piledi into a little bitty cab and headed back up the mountain.
Another group:
Tom, Jack V, Bruce, Julie, Walter, Leigh and Annina went back down to the school to work some more on the ceiling, lights and fans.
And the rest either went hiking in the rain forest with 'Pablo' or stayed to rest at the hotel.
After lunch, a few girls (Jessica P, Savanna, Jennifer, Beth V, Raquel B., Annina and myself) headed out here to Little Hands where we were met by 3 women from the local church. They taught the girls how to wash clothes by hand in a 'pila' Think washboard and huge concrete holding tank for water attached. I have a picture a few posts back I think of my kids from behind washing their hands in one). They got about halfway done before the rain picked up and it was just about time to go. To treat them for their efforts I made a mango cobbler (and since I'd promised Annina one!!). We were joined with our cobbler by Brenda Young and her crew from Washington who had just arrived and were getting settled in. They will be here a couple of weeks working with Little Hands Big Hearts.
We had a great campaign tonight!! I can't remember how many kids Aaron said they had in children's class tonight, I want to say 56, and that was with age limits so that it didn't include the youngest or the older kids. Dago did a great job delivering a message on being a Christian parent in this world!
Tomorrow we will have our final campaign meeting. 'Pablo' will be taking the rental van out to pick people up early! We will also be dividing up to eat dinner in church member's homes.
We thank you for your continued prayers and for your words of kindness!!
I pray you have a wonderful 4th of July!!!
And now what you all want.....I'm doing my best to get pictures uploaded and looking for different faces, but please please understand uploading pictures here is not at all like at home. It takes 5-10 min for each and every picture. Last night I would click upload and then doze.....until finally I just slept too soundly to wake and click again. I woke up this morning and that picture was still attempting to download several hours later. ha ha ha ha!!
Raquel (not me), Savanna, and Jessica P
working at the school.
Jeremy, Walter and Daddy (aka Jack) at the school
Laura, Kenzie, and Annina
(3 states represented in this picture!!!)
preparing the children's Bible lessons for the campaign
Left to Right
Barbara, a tiny bit of MaryKyle, Jennifer, Katee Jo, Sara, and Jessica G
doing some hard HOT work on "The Great Wall"
Bruce, Tom, Katee Jo, Jack, Cole, Jessica G, and Beth Ann enjoying some down time at the hotel
(again 3 states represented in this picture)
Katie C taking advantage of a little downtime and a cool breeze to update her journal
Tim cutting out an elephant trunk in preparation for children's Bible class.
Seen in the background: Leigh, Aaron and Roxanna (the teacher her at Little Hands)