Honduras Day 4

Hello, welcome back! Day 4 of the mission trip was probably the most life changing for us. We woke up pretty early and hit the road for Comayagua.. We spent the whole day there. We started out at the school for the disabled. Now, this isn't like an American disabled school. If you are in a wheel chair, you have to go here. The Honduran schools are not wheel chair accessible. Which stinks!

BUT! All of these kids are happy. Even the healthy ones. There are deaf, blind, handicapped, and kids with down syndrome. They were so happy to see us! A lot of the guys played Soccer and they said it was the most quiet game ever! They were just moving their hands a lot... It was so awesome to see!

We packed a bunch of goodies for these kids... Toys, candy, stickers, bubbles, balloons! They had the best time!

Ashley Swinney taught some of the people from our team how to make balloon animals and stuff, and the kids really enjoyed that!

It was so cute to see the kids try to figure out the bubble wands! They got such a kick out of them!

Before we gave the kids their gifts we all pilled into this room where the other team mates (the ones not doing the drama skit) learned Spanish skits for the kids to watch. It was so fun watching them get into it with our team!

After the school we had a chance to grab lunch and do a little shopping... Here is a "market" area where most of the people of Comayagua get their food and goods. I didn't but anything except a Honduran jersey. A lot of our team got them. But, it was fun to see... Not the safest/best smelling area - but it was still fun!

Remember that street we went on to paint/evangalize? Well, we went back and prepared to feed 1,000 people! IT WAS SO MUCH FUN! All the kids, and music and people. So much fun! I don't know how many people ended up showing but there were a lot. We did a lot to entertain them too! I took like... a lot of pictures of the kids:) "uno foto!"

Little Sallie Walker! Mackenzie came up with this idea and all the younger kids thought it was fun. Although they had no idea what we were singing, they loved it! And sang along with us!

DANCE PARTAY!! They had Hillsong blasting in Spanish so that was cool. They had Take it All on, and I think every person there was up dancing and acting crazy.

Ben was like throwing kids in the air and picking them up by their heads and stuff.. The guys liked that...

Honduras has pretty much driven all the gangs out but there are still a few left there... So due to the law, we had to have military men ride on our bus/ follow us home.. The gangs knew we were there, why and AMERICAN... So... They were lurking around the corners. But it wasn't a big deal - they stayed away!This is... Adan. I try to go on mission trips and not get attached to the kids. It breaks my heart to leave them and to know that I may never see them again. Seriously, I cried after my mission trip to Mexico a couple of years back because I was so torn from the kids! So, this is my theory I try to keep. For the most part it helps. But there is always ONE kid I fall in love with and want to take home with me. Here is mine. He is such a sweet boy! He told me (and Matt - who fell in love with him as well) that he wanted to go home with us and that we were best friends! AH! He is so adorable and I hope that if I ever go back to Honduras, I really want to see him!

Thanks guys so much for reading my blog! Tomorrow, Day 5! (Last "work day" so last entry!) It means the world that you have a care for what I say!

Love you all,

Brit

Honduras Day 3

Hey! Here is day 3 - and probably some of my prettiest pictures from the trip!! We spent the WHOLE day in Comayagua. We were wiped out by lunch! We evangelized and painted the homes. They are mostly made out of mud - so painting the outsides makes them look so much nicer and it blesses the people. I was not one that painted, I went and evangelized and prayed over people. I loved hearing about the people of Honduras and being able to pray for them. 

This is the main road!

Nikki & Janae working hard (with a little goofing around if you look at Janae's eyebrows!) painting the homes! 

Blake being his tall self and reaching areas others can't! 

This is Jim Favor, another missionary down in Honduras  (mostly in Comayagua) and he has a soccer tournament and stuff for kids, and helps with the disabled and many other things. Here he is explaining to J'lainne and Emma what is wrong with the child  in the Orange shirt. 

Jimmy! He is really scary, but is still one of the most loving and caring person I know. He helps the unhelpable. He loves the unlovable, and is still bad to the bone at the same time. His heart for helping people is just so huge... 

Here we are lifting up this woman's needs. It's awesome because we don't speak their language, and we didn't use our translator for praying most the time just because its a hard task! And we would pray, and they would get it! If someone came to me and started praying in Spanish I'd be like... huh, k Jesus means Jesus haha and that'd be it! But no! These people got it, and that was just so awesome. They would cry and just smile and that just shows that the presence of God was there. They didn't need to know English to understand us. 

Do you think there is anything wrong with this beautiful girl? This is the last place we went to to go tell people about Jesus, and it was a place for disabled people to get therapy and stuff. They are trying to get the place running but are having trouble doing so. So we went in, prayed for the place to prosper while praying for several people in there. Meagan and I were talking to this girl with one of our translators and she told us that her step-mother was so abusive to her that she can no longer walk, and this girl is only five years old! It broke my heart, this poor girl. She stuck out to Meagan too, so we just prayed for her, we prayed that she will receive healing and one day walk - and one day she will! Notice she has gone thru all that and is smiling. :) I love it! She is one of the three or four kids I wanted to bring home with me, just so precious with such a sweet spirit. 

After our long day we hit up a nice restaurant in town and it was so good! REAL MEXICAN FOOD! It was nice. Then Jim took us to his country club where we sat out, hung out as a team, swam and went on the golf course (I paid $15 for a 45min massage! WOW!). I got some really good pictures! Here are some above. It was so beautiful. 

Well, I'm out! Check back tomorrow for Honduras Day 4!!!!

Honduras Day 2

Hey! Back again. I want to hit these Honduras pictures out of the park! Need to catch up to some current stuff, so I'll try to get all these up pretty soon. 

On the 2nd day of Honduras we went to the Woman's prison. We did our skit for them, gave them back packs with goodies and made them lunch, and just loved on them! They are so precious. There were a lot of kids in there with them because in Honduras if you have a child under five years old they have to go into prison with you - and sometimes it's a better life then what they would get on the outside. I didn't take my camera in, so I didn't get pictures of this mission outreach and.... I wish I had but oh well!

 So later on in the day we went to Jimmy Hughe's children's home where he houses kids from abusive homes or abandonment. 

Paul, being crazy! He loved going everywhere with us!

These two pictures are of a boy who is literally hyper ALL the time. While his mother was pregnant with him she was on crack, so when he was born he was addicted to it. I believe that she was so high that she just left him on the streets. 

The girl in the middle, is Jackie. Her mother was brought home one night by a gang and her and her brother were forced to watch them murder their mother and grandmother (at ages 3 & 5) then they went for her brother, stabbing him repeatedly, then they went for Jackie, and he threw himself on top of her, protecting her. They went down to break his neck, and they wrapped him (along with his mother and grandmother) in blankets and threw them into the streets - little did they know they didn't break his neck, they broke his jaw, and he is alive today! Speaking in front of people at universities and other places telling his story! 

Thanks for reading! Check back for day 3! Either today or tomorrow! :)

Honduras Day 1

Hey guys - 

I was thinking today.. I would love to have a website! But I don't want to pay like $20 a month for it. So, why don't I use blogspot? It's genius! But, I don't have a tag for my photos just yet. So until then, I will be selective to the amount I put up! 

Since I haven't updated since before Honduras - I'll put up some pictures!! 

On our first day we went to the Children's school and just loved on them! You'd be shocked to see what they are excited to receive! We had a ton of the SAME stickers and some of the children were just so ecstatic about receiving the stickers! Other children got a kick out of getting their picture taken. I think I took about 300 maybe 400 pictures at this location alone. Good thing I brought 4 2g memory cards! These are some of my favorites from that location - but the B&W one of Ben is my absolute favorite! It's perfect. 

Jimmy Hughes is a missionary located in Honduras and he has all these out reaches for lost and hurting people. There is this one in particular that I really like. It's for teenagers who have been raped or have gotten pregnant from prostitution or rape and he houses them so they can live there in safety (because like any other country, if you get away from the pimp then they try to come looking for you) and have their children there. 

This child is probably 5-7 months in this picture. His mother conceived him at 10 YEARS OLD!! I don't think my body was even capable of that at 10! But molestation and rape (which this girl was raped by a family member) starting at young ages makes the body believe that it has to develop faster. The last picture is the 11 year old mother.

This town is Zambrano... It's full of some of Honduras' poorest people. We are just a mile or two off from this town. We walked everywhere the first day, and hiked a mountain so we got some pretty good exercise! It was awesome. But anyways - we went here to evangelize. Surprisingly most of our people from my group (which was Nikki, Emma & me) already knew God. We had one family who didn't want to talk to us because they were jehovah witnesses. But we came across this one family, and the lady was telling us how her family is in trouble and how she was sick. She asked us not to forget her! It broke our hearts! We will never forget her, let alone anyone else who touched our hearts during this trip. It is unforgettable. I love taking pictures of kids! They are just so photogenic most the time. These are my favorite pictures from Zambrano. I love the picture of Mark Jobe giving kids candy - it grasps how excited they are. 

This is Paul! He was at the mission's house we stayed at. His Grandmother and Grandfather live on campus and SERVE us, they are precious people! Paul is such a sweet boy, but a handful at the same time. Matt and I taught him everything we know :) I hope he remembers it all! We're quizzing him when we go back! 

This is Honduras at sun set. Breathtaking, is it? 

Check back for Honduras Day 2!