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.

Random pics from today

Cool river

Pastor Carlos doing the demostration of the story of Jonah

That's right i walked across that bridge

Day Five....

I’m tired and I want the internet café to kick me out but the one night I am exhausted the guy is willing to stay till the morning. Fun. On a brighter note. Well today was interesting we went out evangelizing again with the Lenca indians. We visited the lady and her family again from the picture below from yesterday’s post and gave her a hammock and a water purifying system. Her children warmed up to me more today it probably did not help that I gave them American sweets. It is pretty funny because with the systems, one of us has to drink the water once it goes through and the water we get is normally from a dirty stream nearby and it comes out clean, So we hope, because we are giving it to them. My extra support went to the purifying systems. Today throughout the village all of their houses were built by Samaritan’s Purse in partnership with World Vision in order to get rid of a bug that lived in the thatched roofs and left a deadly poison in its bite. Many of the people who we talked to who were borderline Christians or who were confused were bitter with Samaritan’s purse because they came and built the houses sort of gave them a church and promised many things and then disappeared. It was very interesting to hear about that because Samaritan’s Purse and World Vision are very big organizations for them to just leave the people hanging with no church but the Catholic Church. It was very strange.
Hey I told Dennis we should get a group photo but half of what I say is in one ear out the other.
So my videos are not loading because they are too big so go ahead and check some of these out, there of the whole group.
http://vimeo.com/phmissions/videos

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I currently have a headache, and I am having a runny nose like none other. Please pray for David who is another team member he is actually somewhat sick. Also Pastor Carlos’s son, Carlos, was taken to the clinic tonight because he is breathing heavily because of congestion.
Again car troubles, we woke up this morning with a flat tire-different tire, Praise the Lord it was not in the Middle of nowhere.
It is towards the end of the trip and some of the tensions are rising among the immature of the group…. Pray that words that are said won’t be hurting.
Also I have not been sleeping well. I slept through a 5.0 earthquake but I can’t sleep to cats fighting outside my window….
I need sleep…..
Yo estoy cansada.
Ps My espanol is coming back.

Day four

WELL!!!!!!!
Today was a very interesting day!!!! Yesterday I chicken out from evangelizing because I was just not ready, but today I just had a confidence that I am sure came from your guys’s prayers. The first house we went to was a lady who had five children and I started sharing about the free gift of eternal life and half way through I got lost with the translation so Dennis and Christiana, who was the translator, took over. But at the end of the day, the house that we were not going to go to because we needed to leave to go home, we decided to go there because the other team wasn’t back at the trucks yet. So when we got there were only women which means I could evangelizes but after that first one I was not feeling so confident. Dennis and Steve Sr. were on a roll the whole day so we were waiting for them and when Dennis came in he told me I would be doing that house and Christina would help me if I got lost. I did the whole thing but the prayer. In the prayer I get lost with the translation because I can’t remember what I have said and I feel like I am repeating too much. But it was successful and I have never led some one to the lord like that. I don’t think I have ever led someone to the Lord personally, I have shared my testimony and I have been in the room when someone led the prayer but I have never done it. Well we are getting kicked out of the café again…. I hope to upload a video but I so far has not uploaded in two hours… darn.

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WELL Today we realized that it was God send that our first rental car broke down, because the first one was an automatic engine and the automatic would not have been able to manage the rural roads that we went on today. We still need prayer that our cars will be fine.
Pray for my allergies, and the allergies of all us, the dust is really getting to us and of course I forgot to bring my allergy medicine. I had a bad headache but I caught it and treated it in time before it became a migraine, which I was glad of. Today it was mostly a running nose, but I didn’t feel bad because it was my whole car who was sniffling except the driver, the dust has really gotten to us.
Pray the Lencas will be receptive we had some very angry people today, which we respected. But they need to know Christ also.
David a team member is feeling really sick more than just allergies, so just pray that he feels better.

Don’t be afraid to comment!
Don’t forget to go to the pure heat blog they talk about tons of stuff, and if you add Dennis hislop as a friend on facebook then you can see pictures five miuntes after he takes them. He also posts the pics on the blog. i aslo put different pics on the blog.

Haley and I at a farming fiel on the way to the Lenca indians.





This family has really been laid on our hearts she has accepted christ and we are going to visit her again tomarrow and give her a water purifiying system. She has been the poorest lady we have seen becasue she has no family nearby and her husband left her. her kids are sooo cute.

Tuesday... so i heard the earthquake i slept through was a 5.0

Hello to all!!!!
Today we saw over fifteen people come to Christ! We went and handed out free ministry bags and then told of a greater free gift the free gift of Jesus Christ. It was amazing how receptive people were. Christina the missionary told us that tomorrow will be harder for us because we will start with the Lenca Indians.
We are getting kicked out of the café so I gotta go, if you want to read more read the pure heart blog Steve and Kent REALLY blog and I spend all the time at the café helping dennis with the cameras.

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So yesterday I asked for prayer requests for our car troubles and today the tire on our car became flat, and when we checked it out it was ripped up all over. But hopefully the rim was not too damaged. Steve Sr. was able to put the spare on, Praise the Lord that we had the walkie talkies and that the others were within distance. So we need prayer that nothing else will go wrong with dennis´s car, Marvin, Christina´s husband, his car started falling apart yesterday so please pray for their car also because they are our guides.

Pictures

Road Conditions monday during rainy seasons, those are sharp cliffs.

Feeding kithcen from monday.

we were caught in the rain and just sorta or went into a house and made friends with the children or at least i did i know the most spanish of the of the group of my age.

Hondureas Sunday and Monday

Well we survived the frightful landing in Tegucigalpa’s airport. I saw the cliff of we the landing strip ends its pretty interesting. To start off on waiting in line for customs they have us get a picture taken with a heat sensor to make sure I didn’t have swine flu, it definitely made me very paranoid when they had all of there masks on.. We were in line of two hundred people and some how they all got through customs before us, we have no idea how, but just proves that I always pick the wrong the lines.

The drive to Las Esperanzas was eventful with buses almost clipping us and competing with other buses with for driving lane space. It was a long four hours. After we got to Las Esperanzas we went to the Children’s home where kid’s come to further their education, we had dinner with them then we had a low key service.

Monday morning I found out how exhausted I was. I slept through an earthquake. Dennis and Steve Sr. felt their beds shaking, I definitely did not stir until the morning.
Monday we went to a feed kitchen and visited with the children then went and scoped out some other sites for other feeding kitchens. The feeding kitchens are managed by the missionaries Marvin and Christine and sponsored by Pure Heart Christian Fellowship Church.
We have been handing out water purification systems and Pastor Dennis did a demonstration for the family that we gave it to, he took the dirty muddy water from the ground and ran it through the system then drank it and he is still standing 7 hours later.

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We are having continuous car troubles. Within five minutes of the airport, we drove into the gas station to gas up and the radiator blew had we not been getting gas we would not have been noticed and would have ruined the engine. We are doing a lot of 4wheeling so the cars take a beating but we need them for ministry. Also with car trouble that it won’t rain while we are driving down the cliffs because we are already fistailing down on some of the roads and the rain and the fog make it impossible to see the cliffs.

I seem to be getting headaches, but I just need some prayer that they won’t turn into migraines.

Until Next time.....

don't forget there is the pure heart blog....

I Leave in One day!!!!

Well, Thursday Night we packed Ministry bags. And they are packed to the MAX! I am excited to be leaving and to see what God has in store for me.
For those who like looking at pictures or want to find out more about my fellow team members or the organizations, there is also a group blog that we will all be contributing.

Thank you to all who supported me!!! I recieved some extra money and we were able to purchase some water purifiers kits, that we will be giving out. Thank You!

This is the team blog and it also has links to facebook where the majority of the pictures will be but there will be some on blog.
http://pureheartmissions.wordpress.com/

***Prayer Requests(PRs)**** Safe travel to Telgucigalpa and the drive to Las Esperanzas.
Until Next Time!
Nicole :)

Thanks for your support!!!!

I will be leaving in 8 days and i would like to thank all of you who have supported me. This blog is where i will post pictures during my trip and i will be blogging during the trip. so follow me if you want.
Nicole