Sweet Home Chicago

I made it, I'm back safe and sound in the States. God blessed me with three safe flights, no delays, and no trouble with luggage. When I got off the plane and outside of Chicago I was immediately struck by the cold and was freezing. My lovely sister heather picked me up and I went with her and my niece and nephew to visit my grandma in the hospital. After that we visited my mom at work and then headed out to the burbs. I got to see my dad at home and then I fell asleep for a few hours because I only got a few hours of sleep in the airport at Atlanta last night. When I woke up my other sister was here and so were my nieces and nephew so we got to watch them for the evening and eat pizza. Later my brother stopped by after work and we all got to see each other. Overall it was a pretty sweet day and I got to see pretty much all of my family so it made me happy. I'm happy to be home and looking forward to good times with friends and family.

Never Let a Missionary Cut Your Hair

So this last week has been pretty sweet as I have been preparing to return to the States. I've had to teach Wesley three classes without the videos so I have done a lot of refreshing and reviewing of proofs, the Scarlet Letter, and the quantum numbers. The good news is that his videos have finally arrived and just in time. The boys will have school next week while I am gone and thier parents will fill in for me. Tuesday I went into the city with Val to play the bodyguard role and we ended up in the city for around 12 hours. It was a long day but I enjoyed seeing the kids of Casa de Luz one last time before Christmas. they are having a Christmas party the day I fly out and unfortunately I will not be able to be there. We also had a lot of errands to run in the city and Val had a board meeting at 7 pm so we got home around 10. Thursday I went to the ministry and played soccer with the young men of the community and it was fun. I didn't score any goals this week but I enjoyed running around and sweating with the Hondurans. This week I also received a haircut from Val. It started out as just an inch or so off. It was a little uneven so she cut some more. after round two I had some racing stripes on the side of my head and a mullet in training. She claimed I looked very latino and i kindly reminded her that I was a gringo. So I kept my mini-mullet for a day but after all my complaining I sat down for round 3. This time the haircut turned out decent and now I look more like a human being rather than the cromagnon hairy beast that I was. Val insists that I put gel in my hair becuase it looks better but I dont know if I will be able to do all that. Im sure it will be a big suprise to everyone in the States becuase it has been a while since my hair was this short but it will grow back soon enough. Well on Sunday I fly out of Honduras in the afternoon and will be traveling all day, arriving in atlanta at midnight. I will stay overnight in Atlanta and fly to Chicago Monday morning. My lovely sister Heather will be picking me up and we are going to visit my grandma Shirly Paoli in the hosital. Please be praying for my grandma and the rest of my family during this time as well as for me during the days of travel. I can't wait to be back in the States to see my family and friends. God Bless.

Good News!!!

So the home visit from the Honduran adoption agency went great and the Schuberts have been approved and will receive their new Honduran daughter in about a month. This has been a great answer to many people's prayers. I am excited to have a little one in the house and to help the Schuberts care for her. Other than this news, which we received on Tuesday, not too much has happened this week. Me and Ed dug some trenches in the back yard to extend some plumbing pipes that ran right into the back yard creating a nice swamp effect. We also cleaned up all the trees in the back and began leveling the yard so that we can mow it. We worked pretty hard on Monday and Tuesday and I was pooped and had a sore back but I felt like I was useful those two days so it made me happy. Wednesday Val and I went to the city to run errands. I have become Val's bodyguard for her weekly trips into the city, she needs someone with her especially at this time of year because people are more desperate around Christmas and more likely to rob someone. It was a long day but I enjoyed it. Me and Val got to talk on the drive there and back. We usually have some pretty good talks and yesterday we got to talking about how I talk to others and how strong my words can be at times. Of course I wasn't realizing it until she told me but I have been pretty impatient with Wes because he is very frustrating at times. She told me how he just shuts down when I get like that so I told her I would work on it and I also told her when she catches me doing it. I have paid more attention to it today and tried to not be destructive with my words towards him and everyone in the house today seemed to just be in a better mood, especially Wes. I'm glad that Val pointed it out to me so now I can work on it. I don't like the thought of people feeling bad and torn down from the things I say so I'm gonna keep working on it. Some bad news this week was the fact that Wes' next set of videos for school haven't come in the mail so I've had to teach 3 out of his 5 classes on top of all of the things I was doing before. It takes up a lot of time but it has also helped me to explain things more in depth to him and help him understand everything a little deeper. The classes I've had to teach him are geometry, english, and chemistry. I feel fine with math and science but I'm pretty sure Wes has more knowledge of english than I do so I'm hoping his videos come soon. I'm pretty excited to come home in a few weeks and see everyone. Christmas is going to be even sweeter this year since I missed Thanksgiving. Well I gotta get going. God Bless you all and your families during the holiday season. Good luck on finals everyone who is still in school. Adios.

Football, Food, and Fun

Yesterday we celebrated Thanksgiving with another missionary family and the Honduran family that stated the local ministry, Love Without Boundaries. It was a great day, we threw the football around and even played a few games. We also had a ton of food throughout the day and needed a few breaks to let everything digest properly. We also played some board games and sat and talked outside because it was a georgeous day. It was 70 and sunny all day which made for a lot of fun time outside. I found myself missing my family though because it was the first Thanksgiving where I didn't spend it with anyone from my family, but I know it will only be a few short weeks before I am back home to see everyone. The Schuberts also recieved some very exciting news a few days ago. They have been trying to adopt a Honduran girl for a while now and they have already gone in and done psychological tests and had interviews. The next step is a home visit and it seemed to be taking forever but a call came and the adoption agency will be coming out to the house on Tuesday so the next step is underway. Please pray for the Schuberts that this interview will go well and that they will have their Honduran daughter soon. It would also be a blessing to me for them to receive their daughter because I miss my nieces and nephews a ton and I would have a 1-3 yr old girl in the house. Today we are going to a place they call the Valley of Angels to shop and look around. I am looking forward to going but sad that we won't be able to go to the ministry this afternoon. They cancelled church tomorrow because it is a voting day so that means I won't be able to see a lot of the kids from the community for two weeks and that saddens me. Not much else has happened since Tuesday. The boys schooling is going very well and we just sent in their first quarter grades. On thursday I played socer with the men of the community and scored 3 goals(a new high for me). Unfortunately I scored one off of my mouth and my nose. It was pretty painful and I got a little cut on my lip but it was worth scoreing a goal. The gringo learned a valueable lesson on Thursday: don't try to head the ball in the goal when someone from the other team is abot to kick it as hard as he can in the other direction. Well we have to get going. God bless and thannk you for all the support, especially all the prayers. I hope you and your families enjoyed each others company over the holiday and God blessed the time you shared with one another.

Get on Facebook if You Can

So I used this awesome internet connection to upload pictures today but it was much faster to upload them in facebook so if you want to see them they are in facebook under my photo albums. I have more pictures but those were all i had on my computer at the moment. hopefully I be able to use this connection in the future to do more. yippee. God is good and gave me fast internet today. It has made my day and I am one happy camper right about now. O Praise Him.

So I am in the city today and blessed with an awesome internet connection so i decided to put up some photos. I dont remember the order I put them in but I think the first one is of some of the kids from Casa de Luz and I, the 2nd pic is Ed, Wes, AJ, and I working on the road, the 3rd pick I think is the large "indoor" soccer field at the local ministry in Zambrano. The 4th pic is a picture of the church on a Sunday morning in Zambrano and the last picture is just a few of the many beautiful children that show up to the local ministry on Saturdays and Sundays(usually between 50-100 show up each time). I hope you all enjoy the pics. God Bless.

Disabled by Duke

So the other day Duke(our guard dog who is also an idiot) decided to play football with Ed, AJ, Wesley, and I during our morning workout. Usually Duke is on AJ and my team(the robots) and he jumps up at Wesley when he is running. Well two days ago the idiot jumped ship and joined the other team. As I was chasing after Wesley after he took off on a QB sneak I felt like a sledgehammer had hit me in the back of the leg right on the calf muscle. I then saw a flash of borwn idot dog run by and realized I had been rammed by an idiot running full speed. I hobbled a bit and then decided to sit the rest of the game out. My calf since then has felt like it is always tight. i have iced it every day and tried to keep stretching it and it has swollen up a little larger than the other calf. This has somewhat disabled me in the paast couple of days; no leg workouts in the morning and no hard physical labor in the afternoons. The boys had a lot of large exams this week so I have kept busy grading and filling out progress reports that need to be sent in at the end of the 1st quarter(a few weeks from now). I have also done a lot of reading this week due to my injury. Nothing takes your mind off an ice pack on your leg like a good book. I still plan on going to the ministry today and tomorrow to be the human jungle gym for all the kids of the community so hopefully I still have a leg after the weekend. If I don't post again by Thanksgiving I want to wish all of you a Happy Turkey Day. I hope all of my supporters enjoy a great time with their families. I also will be missing my family this Thanksgiving as it is my favorite holiday becuase all we do is eat toogether, watch a little football, and we dont have to buy each other presents. I miss you all and I cant wait to see you in a few weeks. Stay out of trouble and stay warm. God bless. Adios muchachos y muchachas. Kenny out.

Fiesta Loca

So the big celebration was yesterday and it was insane. I would say there were somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 people there. The last few days have been long and I have been exhausted at the end of everyday. This last week we did a lot of work at the property to get everything ready for the celebration. I have done so much manual labor the last week that my hands are all calloused and blistered but it was worth it. Saturday morning was by far the coolest experience I have had yet in Honduras. The party didn't start until 3 but at 9 in the morning many of the Hondurans and Ed and I went up to the ministry to help out. It was awesome to see all the Hondurans working together and right along side us gringos to set up for the big event. We had to move a lot of bricks and the Hondurans formed an assembly line with people of all ages passing bricks to clear the yard. There was a great sense of community among everyone there and it felt good to be a part of that. Oh yeah and big bad Kenny killed a snake with a brick. Im so manly. Back to the fiesta. My specific job during the celebration was to check in and out bicycles of the Hondurans and we gave tickets with numbers to people that matched the numbers on their bikes so that no one would steal someone elses bike. I think I did a good job because no one got their bike stolen. The party itself was crazy and the speakers spoke too long and there were so many kids there that it was rediculous to expect them to sit still for that long. The kids got restless and then disrespectful towards those in charge of keeping them in order so that was a bit saddening. many of the kids didnt come with parents so it is always hard to control all of them. Other than that the party went well and the building was dedicated and I am glad the whole event is over with. The other awesome thing that has happened in the past week is my connecting with a young boy named Christian from the community. I call him my shadow becuase whenever I am around hes right next to me or climbling all over me. His mother asked Val the other day if I was part of her family and after Val explained my role in her family Christian's mother asked her to thank me and explained that Christian's father is very distant and sometimes mean to him so he doesnt have a good male role model. She told Val to thank me for my love for him and my willingness to always hold him and play with him. I cant help it really, the little guy melts my heart. He even tried to follow me home today after church to play longer and I had to tell him we couldnt go to my house (the landlord doesnt want Hondurans in the house becuase she doesnt want the house to get robbed) so instead I walked him to his house with his family. He invited me to lunch but I had to decline becuase I knew the family did not have much to eat becuase they have atleast 5 kids that I know of. He argued with me and his family laughed as I said no and he said si about 20 times. He talked to me the whole way to his house(which was probably a mile and a half from church) and I didnt understand a lot of it but I just listened and responded when I knew what he was talking about. I walked back through town by myself and prayed for the family I had just walked home and by the time I got home I was exhausted so I ate and passed out. All the work from this last week finally caught up with me. Oh yeah I also encouraged a 25 year old american from Alabama who is down here on a work team to come to Honduras for more missions work. He is thinking about coming and working with the local ministry for atleast a year so that was pretty exciting as well. Well its about dinner time. God bless all of you and thank you for your prayers for the crazy party yesterday. Adios

Mountain 1 Kenny 0

So a few days ago for our workout I decided to take the boys and Ed to a trail that goes up a mountain for our morning workout. The plan was to run up the incline and walk back down. Me and Wes ran up it once and walked down. The mountain was too much of an incline for AJ so he walked it with Ed. I decided that we could run up it twice for our workout and then jog back to our property. Boy did I underestimate that mountain. The 2nd time up Wes began to jog but slowed to a walk. Being the personal trainer of the family I said to myself that I had to set the example and keep running. Well about half-way up that mountain I began to gag and continued to throw up stomach acid since we hadnt eaten breakfast yet. This is not that big of a deal, I have always had a weak stomach. I sat there hunched over and watch Ed and the boys steadily pass me by and beat me up to the top. The big bad trainer finishing last, never a good thing. Through the whole ordeal I was remined how with faith we are told by the Bible that we can move a mountain but I realized how much one must depend on God to get to a point of such rock solid faith. I couldnt even run up the mountain on my own and I'm sure I couldn't move a large rock let alone a whole mountain on my own. God humbled me that day and revealed to me how insignificant physical human strentgh is compared to the awesome power of our God. So that was an interesting lesson that God revealed to me only moments after I was yaking on the side of a mountain trail. God was probably giggling a bit when He put these thoughts in my head but I treasured it as a lesson from God, even though it took a while to get that taste of stomach acid out of my mouth. So other than physical excercise in the morning a lot has been going on lately. The local ministry is having a large party on Saturday for the dedication of the colluseum( a large covering and walls over a cement court used for soccer. We all have to help with the event and they are expecting between 2000 and 3000 people so it should be pretty wild. This week the boys school went well and most in the afternoons we worked on our road more(a never ending project), helped out a the ministry moving bricks before the even on sunday, and today we cleaned the house and squeezed juice becuase Val returned today and we wanted her to return to a clean house. I even prepared orange milkshakes for Ed and Val for when they returned. We are all happy to have Val back because we will no longer have to depend on the microwave for our meals. I jokingly told Val that while she was gone I made the boys hug the microwave every night before bed. I feel like I bonded better with the boys while Val was gone so I was happy for the time we all had together. I have been saddened by some family issues at home that I wish I could be around for and it saddens me because I naturally want to fix things when they are wrong. It will be especially hard at Thanksgiving time when I wont be able to be there but I know that this is where God my Father wants me. If you as my supporters could pray for my family I would greatly appreciate it. You could also pray for the big even on Saturday and that every thing goes well and stays orderly. I have lately been getting into more of a routine throughout the week. This Tuesday and Thursday I played soccer with some young men of the community and I really enjoyed my time with them. Saturdays and Sundays at the ministry are some of my favorite times becuase I am surrounded by young kids, many starving for attention. I finally feel like I am getting more involved and I feel like I am really starting to connect with some kids. I just hope and pray that God continues to give me opportunities to do this and I'm sure He will. Well I must get going but know that I truely appreciate all those who support me whether through prayer or money or simply just loving me. I am thankful for all those God has choosen to come along side me during this year and I pray for you all daily. God bless Honduras and the States(and lets hope those gas prices keep dropping). Adios

Pray

I dont have much to post this time because not much has happened in the past couple of days. Val left yesterday for the States for a fundraiser for one of the ministries we work with down here. The boys, Ed, and I have been doing alright without her primarily becuase she made a bunch of meals for us before she left. The microwave has been our best friend. The reason I am titling this post pray becuase we have heard from a few people around town that an American man was killed in Zambrano during a robbery one of the nights that the power went out. We arent sure if it is true or not but prayer would be nice, not just for us but for other Americans in Zambrano who are likely to be targeted for robberies becuase of the color of our skin. The prayer would definitly be appreciated. We are pretty secure and behind two fences away from most of the people. We do not worry becuase it wont do any good and we often pray for God's protection. On a less serious note, I feel like God is begeinning to direct me towards His will for my life and that has been very exciting. I have been focusing more on my prayer life which I felt wasnt as strong as it could be. Other than that not too much is going on. The boys schooling is going well and the power has stayed on for the most part this week even though it just went out in the middle of this post. We have also done a decent amount of work on the road in the past couple of days so we are staying in shape. Of course we are still working out at 6 am every morning. Well I'm outta here before my labtop dies. Be effective in using the gifts God gives you for His glory rather than your own. Kenny out. God bless.

What a day!

What a day, what a day! Today was a great day but rather long. I woke up and while I was eating and getting ready for church I got to see some hilarious things from Val due to the pain medication. I went to church by myself while the family stayed home. Before church even began I had to break up a fight between two young kids. Now this is a pretty frequent occurence but I was fed up so I grabbed both of the kids by the neck and asked them what their problems were in my borken spanglish. One almost cried and the other one gave me his word that he wouldnt fight as i was kicking him out. Needless to say there were no morre fights at the church and all the kids were amazed to see the "gringo" angry. Val couldnt translate like she normally does so Carolina, the daughter of the leader of the ministry translated. the only problem with that is she normally teaches the kids and I help her. So I was on my own with about 50 kids. Since I didnt have any lesson planned I just let them color and gave them cookies and then they played. I played with a young boy named christian who loves to pretend fight me and then a bunch of young girls played with my hair and made me look ladylike. After church I went home at lunch and then after a few hours returned to the ministry to play soccer with the young men of the community. I got there at 3 and the Hondurans didnt get there intil 3:30 because Honduran time is 30 minutes off. I talked to Carolina for the thirty minutes and she told me how the ministry started as Her Dad playing with local kids in their front yard,telling them about Jesus, and giving them cookies. Soon a few kids turned to 20 then 40 then 100. It was pretty cool to hear that from her. So eventually the game got started and it was going great. I scored a gaol and everything(score one for the gringo) but the mood of fun and fellowship was ruined by two of the boys getting into a fight. these boys were much bigger than the little ones I broke up early in the day and it was harder to get between them but I managed to and the game continued but with a different mood to the game. It seems rediculous that the Hondurans cant even play a soccer game without fighting. At first I was a little bit angered with them but I ended up feeling sorry for them an praying for them on the way home becuase Im sure all the young men have a lot of things to be angry about. They come from poverty-stricken, broken homes and have probably dealt with a lot of pain throughout their lives. Many of the kids dont even go home after the ministry and many can be seen wandering the streets afterwards. So I guess I will just continue to break up fights and try to be the peacemaker(although I dont think I will have to because I scarred the crap out of the younger kids today before church)and continue to pray for the young men of the community. After that I came home and played some good ole American football with Ed and the boys and then had dinner. Now we are sitting around watching movies and I can finally post blogs from home rather than from the city. Oh and the electricity hads stayed on for the most part the last to days. Praise God for that. I found myself in such a good mood today rather than the few fights I had to break. I have been reading "The Call" lately and it has taught me to try and let all my thought be thanks to God and today I did a lot of that and it brought me nothing but joy. God is good abd all things good in life come from him. Well Im gonna get back to quality Schubert family time. God bless you all.

Where is the Walker?

So the past couple of days have been pretty dark. Not spiritually or anything but quite literally. We call our electricity down here the Walker and he have not had any for multiple hours during each day this week. Some of the days there were more hours without it than with it. This has made it especially difficult for the boys to get through school becuase they have their lessons on videos which they watch. So Wednesday without power we went out into the community. We had originally planned to work on our road which has come close to being impassible after the heavy rains but we got a call from a lady from the church we attend at the ministry and her husband couldnt get their van running. We went out to help and as Ed worked on the car me and Val decided to connect with some community members. I of course went directly to the kids in the neighborhood and began to play with them(both becuase I love kids and becuase I am less intimidated to use my spanish with them). Val began connecting with some women in the community she hadnt met yet and informed everyone she met in spanish of all the upcoming activities at the local ministry. It was great to go into the local neighborhood and mingle with the community. I of course became a jungle gym and punching bag for the little ones and loved every minute of it. We eventuallly worked on the road and got a lot accomplished considering are lack of heavy machinery which would make the work easy, but I valued the time with the local children the most. Today was another day where we woke up without electricity so we had the boys do some schoolwork that didnt require the power and then we came into the city to hang out because Ed and Val have a board meeting for the ministry in the city. So I am sitting at another internet cafe but hopefully this will be the last time becuase we picked up our modem today. The Schuberts are also flirting with the idea of buying a generator becuase the boys cannot get any father behind in school. Well other than this I dont have much else to report. Please pray that God will keep our electricity steady becuase the boys need schooling and our food needs cooling. Please also pray for us this next week as Val will be leaving for the States. One last note. The E.C. church is planning on sending a work team down to Honduras to work along side the Schuberts and I in Zambrano and if anyone is interested they can contact Jerry Virtue. If you are interested and have no idea who that is then contact me and I´ll get you his info. Praisin Him with or without lights. Adios.

Showering in the Rain-Honduras Style

So this last week has been pretty interesting. Because of all the heavy rainfall i spoke of in the last post a giant mudslide occurred on a mountain nearby and we didn´t have water come in for almost 2 weeks(it normally comes in every third day). So we had to do many things to conserve the water that we did have in the cistern. Me and AJ decided to use the heavy rainfall to our advantage and shower outside like some true Hondurans. We also started peeing outside to save water on flushes and using water from our pila to flush the toilets. It was rough for the last week and I was almost out of clean clothes but God is good and we received water yesterday and now my clothes are clean. The boys schooling went well in the last week. Wes is getting into the chemistry and I love helping him with it. Last week we went to the ministry to help rearrange the room which they hold church in and then we all had a little football game afterward(American football not the sissy futbol) it was so much fun even though were playing with another missionary family with a bunch of young girls. It really made me miss America and watching football all day on Sundays. Saturday I didn't go to the ministry because I was a little sick(probably from showering outside). Ed and Wes went to help build a house for a struggling family and I was going to go with but I missed out. I wish I hadn´t been sick because I would have truly enjoyed that experience. I´m sure the Lord will provide plenty more opportunities to serve. On Sunday we went to church at the local ministry because we are trying to limit our trips to the city. I laughed when the kids were in their Sunday school class and the teacher mentioned manzanas and many of the kids turned around at me and I had to flex. I have been trying to work on my Spanish more each day but its still pretty overwhelming. I know enough to understand a lot and to get by but I don´t feel super comfortable speaking yet. I´m sure I will get there. Tuesday´s have become my body guard day as I come into the city with Val. She usually drops me off at the mall to do internet while she attends a ladies small group and then we run errands together. Today we went to the other ministry called casa de luz in the city and Val talked to the teachers and left me with the 6 or 7 kids there. I couldn't really talk well to them but they somehow knew I was a human jungle gym and they were soon all over me. they pretended to beat me up and shoot me with fake guns and then we played a little soccer. I love that kids can tell whether a person is kid friendly or not and they pick up on that right away. The kids were adorable and I can´t wait til we get internet at the house so i can post some of their pictures on the internet. At the local ministry they are also starting English classes for the community members and I think I am going to try to teach one because I can minister to the community and improve my Spanish at the same time. In a week Val is leaving for a while to head to the States for some ministry stuff in Chicago and it will be a man pad at the Schubert house. Hopefully we don´t starve and the house is in one piece when she returns. Well not much else is new. I think I kicked the little cold that I had and I am thankful that we have water so I can now shower inside. The electricity still goes in and out so it is frustrating at times, especially when the boys are trying to complete school on their labtops. It is humbling though to live like many people of the world who don´t have many of the things that we normally take for granted. Rejoice in what the Lord has blessed you with no matter how small or how important because there are many without much. God bless you all.

Water Water Everywhere

Well it has rained pretty much non-stop the last week and a half and the weather has been crazy. Ed and Val have a leak over their bed and so does Wes. We also have a leak over the couch. It makes everything pretty interesting in the house when it rains. I have a small enough bed that I can move it out of the line in the roof that it leaks through so I stay dry at night. The roads are pretty bad becuase of the water flow. The road right outside our place has a 3 foot ditch in the road from the water. we call it the grand canyon. The other day we did some work on the road but it is rough without heavy machinery. We use one pick axe and three shovels so it takes a while to get a decent amount of work done. While we were working on the road a small girl from across the street came out and gave us some bananas while we were working. Her name is Estephanie and she is 4 or 5 years old. We later saw her bathing outside using water that was collected outside in a garbage bin from the rain. I was filled with joy to see how a family with no running water could give up some food to the gringos working on the road. I had Val go over later to build a relationship becuase her spanish is the best. We returned the favor by giving them a loaf of banana bread and hopefully we will suild a lasting relationship with that family. The learing of the spanish is still hard and frustrating at times becuase I want to connect with tthe young people I work with on Saturdays and Sundays but there is a language barrier. They know me and Manzanas and Mr. Kennedy. Manzanas is the spanish word for apples and of course they call me that becuase I tell them I have apples in my arms and flex. They call me Mr. Kennedy becuase he is a WWE wrestler and my name is similar to his. The boys schooling is going well during the week and we are still doing school 6 days a week for a few more weeks to make up for the days we missed by coming down later than expected. I miss my family terribly, especially when I hear about Samantha asking about me. Never before have I wanted to be in two places at once then when I hear about her. Last night after a movie I prayed with all the Schuberts. Afterwards I found myself wishing that I had that type of bond with my family but I then remembered to be thankful for my experiences with my family becuase they shaped me into the man that I am today. I wouldnt trade my family for any other family in the world becuase they are so supportive regardless of thier beliefs. I know I have thier full support in anything I do. I miss my siblings, my parents, grandma, my nieces, and my nephew. I miss the good things and the bad things about them that make them unique. I pray daily for all of you and you are constantly in my mind. I also hope that God blesses the rest of my supporters as well and keeps all that I care about safe until I return to see them again. Well its time to go. Hopefully next time I post I will have internet at the house and wont have to come into the city to talk to my loved ones and inform people of what I am doing. God Bless and dont hesitate to ask any questions about the country, the culture, the people, or what I am doing. Adios.

Rain rain go away

This is a post that i tried to post last Tuesday but i was at a cafe and connection was aweful so here it is a few days late. Since Tuesday I have had my normal weeklong routine and have decided to help aother missionary family by tutoring their kids. for now i will just be answering their questions over the phone and scheduling a session once a week as needed to help them with math and science. Two nights this week the electricity (or as we call it the Walker) was out for a pretty long time and one of those nights me and the boys were home alone for a while and we heard about 100 gunshots go off. they were close enough to hear but not close enough to hit thank God. It is humbling to be in the dark in a country like Honduras becuase you get a small taste of what many people have to live with daily and its gives you a great appreciation for everything that God has blessed you with. As Americans we complain about so many luxuries not working when they fall apart but have no idea what it is like to be without necessity like many others around the world. well i gotta get going to church. adios and be good.


So the last few days have been suh-weet other than the large amounts of rain in Zambrano. On Saturday we went to the local ministry in the afternoon after the boys had school(we have to do school on Saturdays for a month because of our late arrival). Val taught a class of younger girls and I helped her. I even played my first Spanish worship song in public. It was Trading My Sorrows or Cambiare mis tristezas. I struggle a little bit with pronounciation but I was happy that I learned a worship song in Spanish. I then played soccer with many of the younger boys and wrestled with them as well. Since my Spanish is not that great we all picked our favorite WWE wrestlers and had an epic battle. My back was sore the next day but it was worth it to see the kids smiling and laughing. On Sunday we attended the church service at the local ministry. Val translated the sermon of another North American missionary and I helped with the Sunday School class. Afterward I played some more soccer and was the embarrassing gringo who was twice as big as the rest of the kids but with half the soccer skills. I really feel like God has put it on my heart to connect with the younger people in the community so I am going to commit to the local ministry on the weekends. I am also considering helping out another missionary family who needs a tutor for their kids in math and science and I think I will do it as long as it doesn't interfere with my ministry to the people of Honduras. So basically right now I'm trying to decide what God wants me to do with my free time after i finish the boys schooling. If you all could pray that God would guide me to what he wants me to do I would greatly appreciate it. I could also use pray for God's direction for after this year as I am unsure of what is next in my life. Once again thanks for the support on all levels. Adios. May God go before you all in everything that you do, just as He led his people when he set them free from captivity. May that same protecting Holy Spirit lead you throughout your day and throughout you life.

One week of school down...thirtysomething to go

Hello all,

Here I am again at the internet cafe in the mall in Tegucigalpa. This week has been good so far. Here is an example of my daily schedule during the week. At 5:45 I wake up and we begin our excercise at 6 for the boys PE class. Ed participates as well and Val is our stretchmaster and wants to begin doing the worouts with us. at 7 we eat breakfast and we aim for school to start at 7:30. basically my duties during the day are to check the boys homework for every class and administer quizes. I also get to sing hymns with the boys and pray with them for thier Bible classes. Imbetween classes I have been doing a lot of reading. This week I read a book that AJ has to do a book report on later this semester. I read a 225 book in just thre days. For some of you this may not seem like a big accomplishment, but those who know me know that I dont enjoy reading and i rarely finish the books that I begin. The boys finish school around lunch time and we all eat together. After this the boys do homework or we hang out. One afternoon me,AJ, and Ed began to dig a ditch along the side of the road to our house because the water damage to the road is pretty bad. Another after noon I helped Ed sand down a new table and nightstand. I have not left the property too much this week but tomorrow and Sunday I will be helping with classes at the local ministry in Zambrano. Please pray that God blesses the relationships that will be developed between me and members of the community. After the afternnon activites we eat dinner as a family and then either watch an exhilarating episode of Walker Texas Ranger, play board games, or sit around the living room while I play guitar and worship God. I feel like I have been adopted into the family and we are all getting along great. Bedtime is usually around 10 or 10:30. That has basically been my schedule for the week. Hopefully in the next week or two we will get the internet set up at the house so we can stay in touch with people better. I have taken some pictures and will post them after we get internet in the house. If anyone has any questions just post them on here or email me at kapndahous@aol.com. well I must get going so I dont waste all my lempiras on the internet. Once again thank you for your support. Stick to God's path and follow his will. If you do this What could go wrong?

duh... its honduras

hello everyone,
i have made it safeley to honduras and am really enjoying my time here. i am currentyl at an internet cafe in tegucigalpa with val so i will have to make this a short post. i will start the schooling for the boys on monday and i will be involved with helping a sunday school class on sunday another class on saturday. i will be working with the youth of the communtiy so i am very excited. i will have to continue to work on my spanish. hopefully withinn the next few weeks i wil learn some praise songs in spanish and be able to help lead som worship on saturday and sunday mornings. it has been a vert interesting and eye opening experience so far. i feel less safe in honduraas and feel the need to be more cautious than i ever had to be in belize. the schuberts faith is amazing and inspiring to me. they have let go of their life in the states to truely minister in a 3rd world country putting thier lives in danger. it is so cool how they are obedient to christ no matter what. i have come to accept the danger and am content with gods protection. please pray for all of our safety. i have been reading a lot more which has been really good for me. my title of this post has become my new saying. in a lot of situations which may seem troubling or odd for an american i simply say duh.... its honduras. like when water leaks through the ceiling in my room, or when a car is driving on the wrong side of the road about to get in a head on accident duh its honduras. i am truely loving it hear and i am so thankful that god has called me here and that he raised support for me through his church. i know that i was called here and it brings me extreme amount of joy to know that i am following his will in my life. when i begin to think about the people places and activities i miss this joy gets me through the night. how great is our god who communicates his desire for us if we have the patience to listen. well i think i am going to get going now. i apologize for the spelling and grammer errors but i am in a hurry because we have to be in church in 15 minutes. i dont know when the next time i will be able to post will be so if you have questions leave them and i will get back to you. i love you and miss you all. thank you for all the support(prayer, financial, and emotional). go cubs and go bears. peace out from honduras. be good and let god take control.

We will get there....eventually

As many of you may have already heard, one week ago Val Schubert had a lump the size of a golf ball removed from her breast. By the grace of God and God alone, the procedure went well and the tests on the lump revealed that it was not cancerous. Val is still recovering from the procedure but excited to head back down to Honduras. The Schuberts have decided to push back our arrival date from September 15th to September 23rd. Luckily both the Schuberts and I were able to make these changes to our airplane tickets without being charged. So we will get to Honduras eight days after we originally planned but we will get there. Please continue to pray for Val and the Schuberts as Val continues to recover and remember us all in prayer during our times of travel. Unless anything changes in the next week and a half the next time I post on this site I will be posting from Honduras.

2 Corinthians 1:3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us un all our trouble, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the confort we ourselves have recieved from God.

Amen and Praise God

God is good!

First of all I would like to thank all of you who have been praying for my family during this time, especially my father. I shared with many of you how I longed for my father's approval for my trip to Honduras, even though I knew it was what God wanted me to do for the year. Well God has faithfully answered prayers yesterday when my father said he did not think that me going to Honduras was the wrong thing to do. He then quoted his sister who had recently said that satan attacked my family very hard during and after my parents divorce and that he may have done that to prevent me from doing what God wants me to do with my life. My eyes teared up when my father said this because i knew that God was working in him and he was questioning and kicking a lot of things around in his head concerning his own faith. Please continue to pray that God would work in his heart throughout this next year. Hopefully one day his faith in Jesus will be restored. Once again thank you all for your prayers and God bless.

Hola

Hello everyone. This is the site I will be using while I am in Honduras to keep everyone updated on how things are going throughout the year. For those of you who don't know or don't remember I will be flying out of O'Hare on September 14th and arriving in Honduras on the 15th. Hopefully while I am in the Schubert's home in Honduras I will be able to connect to the internet with my laptop and keep everyone updated frequently. I would just like to thank everyone again for all the support for this trip whether it was an encouraging word, prayer, financial support, or just sharing love with me. I will miss everyone while I am away but I am sure God has great plans for me during this next year as he has promised this in Jeremiah 29:11.

Love you all,
Kenny

P.S. If anyone has any questions or comments I would love to hear from you