First Days in Honduras

I need to catch up - so much has happened, and I've been so busy.  No time to write.  But it looks like I will have a lot of down time for the next 3 days so no excuses.

On Wednesday my flight was supposed to leave San Salvador at 1, but didn't leave until 2.  Jairo and Josselyn were waiting for me at the airport.  Jairo is into taking pictures on his cell phone.  He took a movie of my flight landing and of me getting off the plane and pics of me waiting in immigration.  He even noticed that all of the luggage had been picked up and there was none for me.  I was told that it would come the next day.  Four days later it seems to be permanently lost.

We went from the airport to help Walter.  He was a La Colonia, a grocery store, that had taken a bunch of food that didn't sell and put it in crates by the garbage.  Walter doesn't have a truck anymore, he has a tiny car, so he couldn't fit the food in his cars.  As they say in Honduras there was "a monton"!  It reeked of rotten garbage, and we didn't have any way to box it up so we had to put it piece by piece into Jairo's van.  I was so stinky and sticky by the end and I knew I had no clothes to change into.  Jairo teased me that I was already jumping into the life of a missionary, coming straight off the plane into the garbage for food.

We took it all back to the church and cleaned it up.  It was lots of good stuff.  Some is very practical and will be useful for the breakfast program.  Some is crazy - like Perrier lemon water.  But we took it all and it will get used.

Perrier, Juice Boxes and Cereal

Lourdes gave me cards (40!) from the kids.  The cards are so cute.

That night we worked at the church until late, then ran around at 8:30 pm, trying to find a store that sold underwear for me.  Finally we begged a guard to let us in and quickly ran through to the top of a 3 story store where we bought underpants - all of which later turned out to be too small.

We went home and cooked a delicious dinner of fresh Tilapia, salad, queso fresco (which I had been waiting for for years!) and more.  I can't remember it all now.

The next morning we got up early for soup day at the church.  This is the kids' favorite day because Lourdes makes chicken soup for the breakfast program.  We had a lesson and a time of prayer, which lasted at least a half hour.  Then the kids ate their soup and played.  They were in heaven.

Lessons with the early group

Washing Hands with team work

Chicken Soup!

Little ones