We are seeing fruit from some planning this week.  

Below you can see a His Eyes truck towing another His Eyes truck.  Unlike in the past, until the end of the year, we have the ability to bring older vehicles to Honduras.  (For many, many years...you couldn't import anything older than 7 years)

Since there is a current exception, with lower taxes as well, we gave it some thought and realized we could save a lot of money in the next 5-10, so we bought two older Fords, double cab, long beds, manual transmissions and the coveted 7.3L turbo diesel, for groups and other work here.  

Especially making this possible is the help of Dave and Cecilia in going to do the actual purchasing, and coordinating getting them in tip top shape before we ship them down later this year.  Their donated time, knowledge and efforts are very much appreciated.  ​

David is the son of the clinic's phlebotomist.  He came to help translate in February for a visiting chiropractor.  It was here that Jose Luis, who started in January working in the clinic as evangelist, got to talking to David and set up weekly Bible studies with him. 

This Sunday David got baptised, and Jose Luis was there with pastor Miguel to do it.

We have a group here this week (and for the next six weeks as well) and I have already heard several other stories of going down the road and God bringing disparate events together for something bigger. 

Sometimes you can't see the end of the tunnel, but you have enough signs to push forward.  Praying that our eyes would be open, and our minds/souls sensitive to God's leading down the road He would have us go. Especially when for the next couple months, there are going to be even more moving pieces and people involved in God's work here. 
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The corn that IDES shipped us, which was grown in Illinois, has arrived, and is now being distributed through the churches, Milk Projects, and clinic.  It is hard to really take it in, how much work was done by so many people, and how much of a help this is to many, many people here. I try to think about it, and just can't take it all in.  ​

We are planting some of that corn (seen in the picture above in Cantarranas) in all three of the farms, with the idea that if successful...it can provide even more.   

In that picture you can see:
how much we need rain
the piping to get water to the trees already planted
how much room we still have to plant more trees
​how much work there is to be done.   

The idea is that with someone living on the farm, taking care of it, we can provide a lot of food for the Milk Projects and to give away, while providing a little bit of income, and who knows what else?  I can't see that far yet. 

Pastor Edwin's daughter was blessed with a gift from the last FAME team, equipment for her to use in her studies (she is in nursing school.)  That wasn't a planned gift...just something the group was able to do when someone, who wasn't even there mind you!, knew the need and saw the possibilities.  

Valerie was taken aback last week when pastor Manuel was in the clinic.  She was super busy, he was hoping to get an eye exam.  She stopped long enough to ask him what was wrong, and he said he was having difficulty reading.  She relaxed and told him just to go into the optical to get some readers.  He was taken aback, incredulous even...how could he just put on some glasses to fix his problem without an exam to know what he needed?  

She got a picture of him later, laughing, still trying to figure out how she knew without checking him out.    

I kid you not...almost all of these blogs seem to have a theme.  And I plan almost none of them.  I saved a few pictures this past week which I thought would be better explained in blog form rather than on social media.  I didn't have a title or idea where that was going when I started writing.  It wasn't until I was almost done I could see...I could see just a miniscule amount of what God sees, and yet again a little glimpse into how He works sometimes. Another time to look up and smile.   

As frustrating as the unknown of the now, the unknown of the future, and there is plenty of that going on here (and surely there wherever you are) right now... the clues are always around us that God is there, He knows, He understands, He sees.