Sorry it has been so long...trust me, I have not forgotten about you all! I thank God for you and pray for you each night. I am so grateful to be here in Honduras. During these last two months I have faced some of the biggest challenges I have had so far in my (as of yet short) life, and recieved some of the greatest blessings.
During these last few weeks things got really busy and then we had Semana Santa...which means "Holy Week". This is basically a week of vacations before easter. It functions as sort of a spring break, but not just schools shut down...taxi and bus service does. And stores. And...well...for the last few days of Semana Santa the whole country is shut down. Ok...I am exaggerating, but a lot of things do shut down for a few days. My first half of Semana Santa was spent in the capitol city, Tegucigalpa, at a retreat center called Villa Gracia caring for the MKs (Missionary kids) while Annual Conference was held. This is a time when all of the missionaries in Honduras get together to pray, catch up on what has been going on with eachother, go over business, and have some fun together.
After the conference I headed back out to the school where campus was pretty much dead. There were only a few boys left on campus. They were boys who lived too far away to travel back for the week or didn't really have anywhere to go. So...with only about 8 boys here it was really quiet.
On Friday I went over to the Solheim's house (they are one year volunteers who just got here a little before I did) to help translate for them because the boy they used to sponser (but who is no longer at the school) came for lunch. That was a lot of fun and stretched my Spanish!
Saturday there was a wedding here. This year the school is going to start having some events here to bring in some money, because the school has a beautiful church and conference center right here on campus. So I spent pretty much the whole day helping with it because it was really fun and I didn't have much else to do. It was really good for my Spanish and helped me to get to some of the people here better.
Sunday after church I went to the Gouges house for Easter dinner and they invited a Honduran family who works at the school, another employee who is about my age, and myself. It was alot of fun...they hid easter baskets for the kids (I still got to be included :-) ) and then later we hid eggs outside (this time I was not a kid and hid the eggs instead of finding them, but the baskets were what mattered to me...they were full of candy!).
Tomorrow:1st day back at school since break!
Hopefully I will update this sooner next time...
In the meantime, thank you so much for your prayers!
