The Past Few

Sunday: At church in the morning, we gave the kids backpacks! The 4 people from America had brought them. It was so cute seeing how happy they were! Church at night was incredible! At the end of the service Mary (the pastor) called all of her kids up, plus me, plus a few others to the front of the church. She poured oil on our heads and began to pray for each of us individually. Talk about amazing. When she got to me, I understood most of what she was praying for. She was praying for things over me that I have been praying about for months. It was unreal! So of course I was kind of crying, and Karen (her daughter whom I love) was right there next to me giving me a hug while 2 of her other children were singing and playing music. Then, after church, a lady came up to Mary who was having stomach pains. So Mary called me over and we prayed over her. Such an incredible night!

This is a picture of the kids with their new backpacks and soccer balls! (Mary´s church, next door/kind of a part of their house)

Monday: I got to go back to my school!! The kids all ran up and gave me huge hugs and kisses. I missed them so much! Oh, this is the school for kids with special needs (the picture at the top of my blog). We worked on words that start with the letter D. After lunch the kids had to leave though because it was too hot. We had no electricity all day.... it was awful! You wouldn´t think having a fan would really be that much of a difference, but boy does it matter! It was scorching. I literally thought I was going to die. But it eventually came on, thanks be to God.

This is me working with Bethel at HOPE. The little boy closest to the camera is Victor.

Today has been good. Back at the school we worked on the letter E. I also got to work with Bethel, one of the deaf girls. They´ve taught her the letters in sign language, so I got to try to help her say things like ¨ma, me, mi, mo, mu¨It was so wonderful when she´d get one. She´d have the biggest smile on her face! I´m really excited too because that´s sort of the kind of thing I would be doing with speech pathology. So hopefully I found what I actually want to do!

I leave tomorrow for Copan (a city a few hours from Morazan)! Mary wants me to meet her mother and family, and they want to take me to see the ruins! (Don´t worry mom & dad, I´ll be safe). I´m really excited because I´ve never gotten to actually see the historical places in Honduras!

This is the pastors family (minus the pastor, Mary). The boy in the white is Jose, red is Angel, Blue is Kelvin, the little girl is Karen, and the older girl is Yadira. I absolutely adore each and every one of them.

I´ll write when I get back from Copan!