I'm Back in the US of A

Well I am back and recovered. It took a couple of days to recover from the traveling. But it happened. After we drove from Las Esperanzas to Tegucigalpa we stayed in a hotel and then went to the airport to catch our airplane in the morning. After we boarded the aircraft it started to rain softly and the air traffic controllers decided to close the air port. I know REAL funny. SO we sat at the gate for an hour and a half. Most people would not worry about this but our airline flies internationally into Houston, so we had a connecting flight into Phoenix and it was only a hour and 45 minute delay. So once we got up into the air the pilot was only able to shave twenty minutes off of the flight. WE landed at the Houston airport at 5:25 we were suppose to board the Phoenix flight at 5:10, so instead of looking at the negative side we ran through customs only to be told that the flight did not wait for us and that there was one leaving later but only two of our group made it on, the rest of us were on standby. So Dennis with his cell phone to ear started talking with some guy about all the available flights to PHX he told the ticket counter which flight we were going to take because the guy on the cell phone told him. We ended up taking a flight to LA then catching a flight on a different airliner to phoenix getting in around midnight, 6 hours later then expected. I then went to work that morning with a tired smile on my face. I was sad the trip was over. But once we left Las Esperanzas, I was ready to go home.

If you would like to hear more about my trip, I will be showing a slideshow of the pictures on Sunday June 28, 2009 at Trinity Baptist Church in Mesa, AZ. It will be in the Youth room from 2-4. I will also be talking about the work that God is doing in Las Esperanzas.

Thank you all for your support and prayers!

Pics from Sunday

Kids home.

The end of the futbol game... USA won!!!!!

I was goalie!!!!! I was also the only girl playing....

Day 8 and 9

Well yesterday we were not able to build the oven... Missionary Marvin could not find cement to buy. So instead we had the futbol game early with the boys from the kids home. The guys on our team recruited me to be our goily and i wasnt half bad. i block as many as i left in. when it was four to four we had a penalty shoot out that i did not block which some of hte boys on the other team were fussing about but i told them that they had already switched goalies twice, their team kept growing throughout the game. so we won after the kicking in three of the four penalty shots. it was a lot of fun. We went back to the Kids home and said goodbye to them all. Today we traveled to Tegucigalpa and we are resting up for our flights tomarrow. We have two hours between planes so we are praying nothing goes wrong becasause if it does then we miss our flight. Well i think i will blog a little bit with a few more thoughts when i get home but good bye for now.

Pics

Mary ann, Pastor Carlos's Daughter

Pastor Carlos Leading in some Praise and Worship, we sang "This is the day"in espanol

This is the courtyard of our hotel.

Day 7

Well right now I am in my post migraine mood so I am a little woozy. Mid-morning we headed out to the mountains to do baptisms. We started the hiking to the river and we had to leave the car up the mountain and hike down to the river which was all downhill…. So the question was how are we going to get back up? Well I got back up and my ankle is fine I got too much sun during the baptisms so I got a migraine on the way back to the hotel. Ten people were baptized including the pastor who is going to be leading the church there. After we returned to the hotel and had lunch we went “shopping” except all of the stores were closed because it’s Saturday and they close early. We then hung out in the hotel the rest of the evening. I tried to get rid of my migraine. Check out the pure heart blog to look at the videos that Dennis puts up of our trip, they can be pretty funny.
Tomorrow I get to help out in the kitchen!!! (while the guys build the oven)
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Well we had a bit of rain today but tomorrow we are building the oven that will bring income to the kids home so we need it not to rain. ‘The oven is going to be huge! Lots of cement!
I don’t know if I will go to the Internet café tomorrow night so please pray for our return travel safety and that the Houston Airport will not be as picky as the Honduran airport about the Swine Flu because I have had the 3 of 4 symptoms, cough, headache, sneezing, I know they are the most common. We fly back to the States on Tuesday but we drive to Tegucigalpa on Monday.
The Missionary Marvin is not feeling well. My roommate, Haley, is not feeling well.
Thank you all.

Here is the Pure Heart Blog:
http://pureheartmissions.wordpress.com/

The two little girls who came to know christ after thier aunt, the coffe lady, talked with Christina.

The two girls with thier new bunny purses, those purses are so cute.

Haley, David, and Esdras

Day 6

Today was a more of a relaxing day. We did not get to the internet café last night till 10:15, so we did not leave till 11:30, Dennis left at like 12:45. So this morning we slept in because we did not need to leave early to drive because the village was not a far drive. We started off late but it was an amazing day!!!! The house that I talked to had the picture of Jesus knocking at the door with the verse so it was a great illustration for me to use for the girl and her siblings. But the great house we went to was this lady who found a bible and learn of God through the bible. She was critized by her community but she prayed for three things that God would marry her and her husband because they were just living together, the God would heal her husband of his alcoholism and that he would send somebody to explain to her the word. God had ansered two of the prayers and she said that we were her third answer to prayer. She was a woman of God. And Her husband has been 6 years sober. we purchased fresh made bread and and coffee, i took everyone's word for it that the coffee was good, but coffee does not get any fresher grown, rosted, and brewed all within forty feet of where it was planted is pretty cool. There were two young girls that were listening in on the conversation when Christina and Pastor Dennis were talking to the Coffee lady and her husband, I could tell they were listening but normally before we pray with them we ask if they understand, but i quite didn't know how to say everything, i asked comprende? but i need more so we waited until the adults were done then I nabbed Christina and asked her to pray with the chicas. She did and those girls are so cute i will post a pic of them in a bit. I have been practicing my spanish and i had a broken conversation with Edras, the Pastor's son who has been with us the last few days, on the ride home today. I felt like i was back in Spanish one. We actually got to the internet cafe at a decent hour, so i might get to bed at a decent hour. high hopes? We have baptisms tomarrow, and we are building an oven with the extra money that kent and Austin raised.


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I am still having a runny nose but now it has gone into a cough, it is suppose to be the rainy season but it has not rained since Monday so the dust is getting worse and worse and we ingest it all.

Carlos is feeling better!

My ankle is doing great check out the videos on the other blog to see what i have hiked and my ankle is good!!!

Rain comes after we build the oven, so basically monday.