On our last full day in Honduras, Bobby asked if the four girls would do the morning breakfast devotional. They each shared their favorite memory from the week (both Anna & Mae said playing with the daycare kids) & then they all said a memory verse together.
After breakfast, the daycare opened it's doors to the families from the community who come each week to receive some basic food staples - this week it was powdered milk & corn. The girls passed out cards to each family that they had colored, then helped pass out the sacks of food.
We took the bus to visit one of the microloan businesses in the village - a donut shop. Really a convenient store run out of the front room of a house... the lady came out with a huge bucket filled to the top with sugared donuts she had fried. Yummy. Afterwards we stopped at the pharmacy for some drugs for the daycare kids (you can just purchase antibiotics over the counter). Tom, Charley, Kylee, & Anna hiked up a nearby hill that has stairs at the top leading to a lookout spot over the entire village. The little girls & I passed on the hike & took a three wheeled taxi back to the daycare. The girls had begged all week to ride in one & squeeled like they were on a roller coaster all the way (I'm sure the driver thought that American girls are crazy!).
Back at the daycare for lunch a few of the workers met up with us for the big soccer game that afternoon. Tom wanted a picture with Manuel - a 12 year old who worked with him on the block houses. Tom said that he was such a hard worker... he's wearing Tom's hat in this picture because Tom saw that he worked out in the hot sun every day in a black hoodie to protect his head. Tom bought all the workers sunglasses in town, and also gave Manuel his hat. Darrell said that next year he has found a sponser who will pay Manuel his working wages to go to school instead so that his family will be able to allow him to go to school instead of working on the building crew.
After driving out to the middle of no where & walking up & down lots of hills down a dirt road - we arrived at a machette mowed soccer field for an American vs Honduran game. We were worried that one of our guys would end up seriously hurt - but God blessed us with an injury free game & we didn't lose by much! On the way there as we walked through beautiful countryside that is unfortunately also covered with litter everywhere Mae said, "I think I know what happened in Honduras. Once a long time ago they had some money, but everyone was hungry so they had to spend it all on food. Then, they didn't have any money left over for trash cans." She might be kind of right.
The view from the back of the soccer field...
That night the girls put on a show for the whole team on the daycare swing set. It was set to music on Lana's phone, and apparently they had been practicing these crazy flips all week - that's Mae upside down - above the concrete.
Later we went to Bob's house for a musical show... not sure quite how to explain it. Bob is an amazing guy in his 80's who packed all he owned into a truck after he retired & drove down to Honduras to help run the daycare. He knew zero spanish at the time, and over the past 15 years he has lived off of his social security & poured his life into the people of Campemento. He loves to sing, so he put on a show for us - I'll just say it was interesting. ;)
After one last night in the motel we were back on the bus really early to head to the airport back in Tegus. I laugh at these pictures because you can take our sweet girls to a third world country, but they are still fully American. Here are all four of them playing on four iphones.
We loved this trip & are so very thankful that we got to go with the girls. Their eyes were opened to how blessed they are, and they grew to love the kids they met. At one point they said they hoped we could come back every year because Honduras was more fun than Disneyworld. In the couple of weeks that we have been home they have talked a lot about what they saw there, and Anna is already making plans for raise money for the kids she met. She's been sewing on scrap fabric & hopes to have a booth soon to sell her creations so she can send her profits to the daycare. We praise God for our generous friends & family who helped to send us and for His hand on us while we were there.
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Words can't explain how proud I am of all of you.
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