San Pedro Sula

Aren´t you all just so lucky. Another blog post... I definitely am surprised at how often I have been able to do this.

We are in San Pedro Sula. My family here is great. Unfortunately we move on to a hotel tomorrow. Only two nights with the family. They are a family of five. 23 year old son, who is traveling to Greece for the special olympics... SO COOL!, a 21 year old daughter, and a 16 year old daughter. The 16 year old daughter speaks some English. That has been nice. I really like the family. Last night I got out of the shower and I heard a Hillsong song. The 16 year old was listening to them. She said she really likes them. It made me smile.

We went to the church´s youth group last night, well when we got in to San Pedro. The youth group is basically anyone who is single... it´s a mix of what I would say would be youth and young adults. The youth group seemed tight nit... it actually reminded me a lot of home. Their worship team was awesome. They did a few songs that I knew, accept in Spanish. They did Come Now is the Time to Worship, Open the Eyes of My Heart Lord, and Trading My Sarrows. It was a lot of fun to listen to the band and see the group worship.

This morning we went to church. It was kind of long, and we were told that it got done a lot earlier than usual... maybe because they knew we weren´t used to a long service? Who knows. After church we went to the beach with the youth group. One of the girls´ aunt has a beach house so we all went out there. The water was a lot warmer than I expected. It was nice, salty of course, but still really nice. We just hung out and ate food. There wasn´t a lot of interaction between us and the youth, I think mostly because of the language barrier. We probably could have made some more efforts. I have to remember to take advantage of those times I´m given.

Tomorrow we are going to a town along the river. It is a poorer part of the city. My guess is my eyes will be opened there. In the afternoon we are going to a Banana Co-op thing. Basically there is a main Banana Company in Honduras, the Co-op is a smaller organization that produces bananas. That should be interesting.

I´m definitely looking forward to this week. I got over the homesickness hump so I´m good. Of course I miss home but I´m not reminded of it constantly anymore. Keep the prayers coming! I was pleased to have zero bug bites last night!

Kelley