espero que puedo hablar espanol

(<-- our view) hola! estamos aqui, finalmente. We arrived in San Pedro Sula on Friday night after many airport adventures. When we were in the Houston airport during our 6 hour layover, Dr. Don decided to whip out his guitar and we sang all the songs we needed to learn right there in the terminal. It happened that there was a big group of kids from Wyoming going on a mission trip to Honduras in the terminal with us, so we taught them a bunch of songs, including Los Diez Mandamientos (the ten commandments). It was hilarious, but definitly fun. After cramming into an SUV and a mustang :) we drove into San Pedro Sula to a small hotel. In the morning we headed out to go to Balfate. Chris Daggett joined-- his flight came into San Pedro much later than ours. Saturday morning we immediately headed to a small church in San Pedro and taught a big group of children there the Pilgrim's Progress songs. We were thrown into it, and it was hot, and it was fun. We tried talking to some of the kids afterwards but it was defintily much harder than i expected; my spanish needs a LOT of work.

The 4-5ish hour drive to Balfate was much like I expected. The landscape of Honduras is beautiful-- it is very poor but very gorgeous. It reminded me a lot of when i went to Jamaica 2 years ago. We made a pitstop in La Ceiba to get groceries and we switched cars, so Julia and I had the opportunity to drive with Astor in the Mustang. Astor is a man that Dr. Don mentored and who lived with them all of last year. He came here for a couple days to help bring us to Balfate. He mostly speaks Spanish, so that's always fun.

The Rumbaughs' home is absolutely gorgeous. I wish there were words to describe how beautiful it is here, but I've got pictures :). We're staying in the left third of their house, aka the Casita. It's awesome. We have a room for the 4 of us, our own kitchenette and living room area. It's definitly a blessing to be staying somewhere so nice.

Today was the first real adventure in Honduras, though. Sunday School Bible Study was held in the Rumbaugh's house with a couple missionary kids. Amy made us waffles. At about 10, Dr. Don, Astor, Natalie, and I hopped on the motorcycles and made our first trip into the village to teach songs for Sunday school. As we were driving along, Natalie said that our motorcycles would be splitting up. So Astor & I went to a different church by ourselves. When we arrived at this small church, there were only men there and a few kids, and I found myself being the only one who had no idea what was going on. I tried to understand as much as I could. Luckily, there was a little missionary kid named Antonio there who spoke English and Spanish-- he was cute. Astor & I went in front of the church and sang about 5 songs with the kids. And then that was it. It was sort of awkward and Astor & I found the whole situation very funny. We drove down the mountain to meet up with Dr. Don and Natalie at a bigger church. We did the songs for the kids there too. It was a lot of fun, and it was funny to watch Chris in the back dancing along with the songs. When the kids were gone, we sat with three Hondurans about our age and taught them how to play the guitar/piano and sang about a million songs with them. It was a great experience. I mean, we'll do that every day so that's pretty exciting.

After a little pizza party gathering with a lot of the Missionaries, we rode a half hour on the back of a pickup to get to this awesome waterfall. Natalie, Julia, & I jumped off the side. I screamed. Whoops.

These past couple days have been incredible. I'm so excited to learn more Spanish, spend more time with awesome people, and get adjusted to this beautiful culture. God's beauty is so evident here and it will be good to spend some quality time with Him.

Thank you for your prayers. We're learning to pray in Spanish. You should too-- He might hear them better :)

Adios a hoy!

p.s.

Mrs. Rumbaugh was saying that if a Honduran man cat calls us, we should say "que feo", like, what an ugly thing to say. And then Dr. Don appropriately said "...or if you have a gun, just shoot them!"

kidding...

obviously.