keep in touch

I am finding that keeping up with the goings on in Honduras via messages, chats, and the occasional video call can work...but it is definitely different.  The good news is that the important stuff has  actually pretty easy and going well so far, and everyone is doing well with the transition and carrying on with the daily grind without any complications.  

It is just the little nuances, the jokes, the stories and conversation that is harder to do for both sides.  Slow internet means video or audio calls are only for the most important meetings, so trying to fit everything else in the other mediums requires, well...nuances.  

Take this picture that I got from Oscar recently.  We were talking about ongoing projects and progress on many of them.  The cow catcher for the Ford was supposed to be done by our welder, but he left for the US recently, so we had someone else working on it, and we wanted beefy work done.  Turns out, we had a former leaf spring from one of the old Fords around, and that has now been drafted into duty as part of the new cow catcher (bonus...we call them mule killers.)  Stronger?  For sure, it took extra help just to get the bends in, with four guys having to hang on it to get it to give enough.   


Ingenuity, it is a fact of life in Honduras.  While I might have questioned about going to the effort to use the leaf spring, although it sure does look cool, I understood the mindset.  I also got a picture from Maria this week, a new Milk Project home, which is made of a variety of materials, and construction methods, due to the extreme poverty of the family.  It is not sound, safe, or protective from the elements, but it was the best they could do with what was available.  



From Sampedrana, two girls, Alexandra and Yenifer, told Maria while getting a ride closer to home after the Milk Project in Sampedrana that they were glad to get to go, because that was their supper for the day.  The school gives them a little beans and rice, and then they get their "supper" there at just after lunchtime.  

This unfortunately is not the first time by far that we have heard this.


Work continues in Honduras, life is happening in community, and the love of Christ is being shared.  Maybe talking with a welder about why we are so thrifty, welcoming a new family to the Milk Project, or chatting while giving a ride home.  Well, all that plus a ton more than I don't have pictures for...the clinic work and daily work of the Church pastors.  But it is definitely happening.



We did get to have a meeting Monday, and I got to be in on my first leadership devotional for the first time in a few months.  Four people sharing in song, thought, and then in prayer together.  Sometimes when I am there in Honduras it is not the part of the week I look forward to the most...but I have definitely missed it.  
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