Oops... I went a week without posting again... These past few days have been crazy hectic, though! I haven't had much spare time to post in. Before I go on about that, though, can I just point out that WE. LIVE. HERE. Somewhere where it isn't outrageously uncommon for a monkey to fall from the power lines and get hurt, causing the police to come and wrap him in a blanket and take him away. Somewhere where the view out my living room window is something off of a postcard. Where you can walk out the front gate, and down one side of the street you see a horse with a pack looking like a Bible movie, and on the other you see a highway with huge buses, and maybe in front of you a couple kids playing tag, or a cow, or dog or two. That's where we live. WLH. Isn't it gorgeous?? :)
We took a trip to San Salvador on Friday to pick up the American team. Because there had been some messed up stuff going on with the buses in San Sal the week before, we got to take one of the mayor's buses and had three armed police on board with us to guard us. We got to go shopping and eat before we went to the airport. The place we went to was called MetroCentro or something... It was awesome! We're not just talking about some mall. This was, like, Crown Center in Kansas City kind of mall. And they had a food court with American food. We had a safe, fun trip back.
Saturday was another great day, even if it was very long. Everyone was at the coumpound by 8:30, and started working. Dea was running a clinic down in the preacher school with Mindy. The guys did work, like fixing stuff on the house and in the church building, etc. Mary and Amy were doing sewing classes for the women. Dad gave the boys hair cuts later in the day. Mom and Amy and Mary visited Selena's house, there was a ton going on. I just did whatever I was told to help ;) The whole team was invited to Reina's for pupusas, and we had a great time.
Yesterday morning we had a great class. Mom and I are teaching the children's class, and we started, where else? In Genesis. Last week was the days of creation, and there's a whole post about it on her blog. Yesterday we taugh about Adam and Eve. Mom had brought in a box of cookies and we set up a whole example. She made sure that the kids understood they were not in any way allowed to touch or eat those cookies. Then, she faked like she had to go back to the house for something and stepped outside. My job was to tempt them with the cookies. Want a cookie? Come on, she's got tons. Just take one. You want one? And every kid in class except two took one. When Mom came back in, she acted terribly upset at it. And they all blamed, who else? Me. So she moved on, and when we got to the end of the story and Adam blaming Eve and her blaming the serpent, it clicked. A little girl in the front gasped and her eyes grew so big, and the only little girl who didn't take one smiled and pointed at me and shook her head. It was so great to see how much they really got it :)
Last night, everyone in the group, except Grandma, who's staying with us, was going to the hotel in Honduras since the majority of their work is going to take place there this week. Our family was planning on going with them at least for worship services in Ocotopeque. But when we got to the border with Jorge, he realized that his I.D. card was missing, and citizens here need it to get across. We searched the vans and called the few places he had visited in La Palma to check for it, and it was just not being found. The guy finally let him off paying ten dollars, but that meant that he couldn't drive us back, so we'd have to go right back with Angelino, the other van driver. We didn't get to stay for services, but we did stay for dinner at this neat little comedor in Ocotepeque. We had a blast at our table with Mindy, Kirk, and our family singing along to the country music playing! :D And there will definitely be pictures of that on facebook soon. It was a great weekend, and the rest of the week with them here promises to be good, also. Thank you to everyone for the prayers so far, love y'all!
More to be posted later!
Su amiga,
Erin