ven, ahora es el tiempo para adorar

Things don’t really slow down here—that’s for sure. Every day has been full of new adventures and new opportunities to teach. This week we’ve gone to many different places to teach guitar/piano/English and we’ve met so many awesome people. Probably my favorite has been a woman named Victelia. She is the director of the elementary and high school in the little village of Rio Esteban. We visited her home on Wednesday and met her two daughters, Dayni and Delmi—girls who are our age and who are extremely passionate about the Lord. Dayni is in med school and wants desperately to become a missionary—we’ll be helping her this summer to improve her English so that this can be a reality. Delmi is a teacher in the bilingual school. Victelia is very excited about the idea of having American college students come and help with English or music or even in putting computers in the schools. Probably something that stuck out most to me about Victelia is her incredible hospitality. On Thursday, Natalie and I had the opportunity to go on a hike up a mountain/through rivers with Victelia, Delmi, like 20 some kids, and a few others. At one point in the hike, my shoes were really badly cutting into the back of my ankles, so she offered me her shoes. And she was very insistent. It was incredible to me—people just don’t offer their shoes! It’s very humbling to realize that yes we’re here to be teaching these people, but at the same time, they have so much that they can teach us.
One of our projects while we’re not in the schools is to use Liz’s Macbook to record Dr. Don’s bilingual songbook. We’re going to make a CD and then distribute it to the schools we visit so that they can hear the Spanish and English tracks while they’re in their own homes. Definitely a lot of fun.
In addition to the incredible Hondurans we’ve met, we’ve also been blessed by the presence of a lot of short term/long term missionaries here too. Last night, myself, Liz, Natalie, & Julia were joined by Chris, a girl named Hannah, and a guy named Mike, in addition to Dr. Don, Mrs. Rumbaugh, Amy, & Shelby up at the Rumbaugh’s house. We had homemade pizza and Dr. Don told us we had to tell a cool God story—he said to “brag on Him for a little”. It was awesome to hear everyone’s stories and it was such a great time to get to know everyone a little better.

I’m feeling very adjusted to being here. We all learned how to drive the ATV so that’s been a fun adventure. We’ve seen the most unbelievable stars here at night—and last night we rode on top of a Land Cruiser. We felt like we were in Indiana Jones or something.
(<--)Please continue to pray for Dr. Don’s ministry down here that we continue to help with. Pray for the students in the schools that they might have open hearts to learn the gospel and pray that we’ll have the energy to teach them. Hasta luego, Lauren