Friday, October 31, 2008

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.

1 comment:

Ken Paoli said...

Sonny boy,

I must admit that I am surprised at the lack of basic services in Honduras. I guess being an electronic composer there is pretty much out of the question.

I am glad that your ministry with kids is happening and I envy the opportunity you have to become truly bi-lingual. I don't think that will happen for me in Taiwan no matter how many times I go there!

Hey, I bumped into Mike McHale at "Los" a little while ago. He sends his best. He is working at Trader Joe's.

Stay clean,

Dad



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