One Day Down...

Today we started the day out bright and early to head off to church. Our transportation came at 8am to take us into the city. When we got to the church, we met the pastor and an American family that has been living there for the past 6 1/2 years. The father teaches at the local seminary, and both the husband and wife and their seven children help out at the church however they can. Our group divided up into two groups: Hayley, Lindsay, and I sat in on the preschool room, while the rest of the group listened to the high school during Sunday school.

During church, we sang "Amazing Grace" and "Lord I Lift Your Name On High" in Spanish and we sang "Happy Birthday" to Hayley in a Honduran song. The boys quickly found a soccer ball to play with some of the local boys, while the girls had to sit and watch since we all had dresses on. Douglas, the leader of the mission trip, then took us to go eat "family style" with his family and the family of our bus driver, Henry.

After changing into play clothes, we headed over to another church to do Awanas. After introducing ourselves, we sang some songs with the kids in both English and Spanish. The sermon/message/lesson was also put on our shoulders, and to do an easy skit, we performed a chair skit where the chair represented sin and the second that we touched it, we could not let go and get away. No help could break the bond until the cross touched the chair releasing us from our struggles. The kids loved our over the top acting. After the bible study, everyone went outside to play games and run around. Sweat was dripping from everyone's faces by the end, but no one wanted to leave.

Even though this may not seem like a whole lot, it wore us out. It's easy to forget how much energy kids have and how they can wear you out so quickly!! However, everyone loved every second of it. We are starting to get accustomed to the way of life, but there is still so much that we don't know. Tomorrow is our first real day of work and we are so ready, but we did play some ultimate Frisbee to expel whatever energy we had left.

Thank you again for all of the support that you have given each and every one of us from finances to prayers!! We would not be here sharing God's love without you!! With love from Honduras,

~Rachael

Check out Anna's take on day two (with pictures!)