I am pretty sure this was the tossing and turning night that perhaps everyone was having after two very long days. I know I had difficulty sleeping, and later that morning Vinsant said "yeah, you were tossing, and your boy up above me was tossing, but everyone was moving around a bit". Oh well, we did know that the next few days should at least be a little lighter with some rest. Beginning on this day, recognizing that we had church that morning, the afternoon off, and then back to church in the evening.
The morning service is in La Cano, and a short distance to drive to get there. I tried to get on the first truck there to help get set up and meet everyone at church. The hill to this church is ridiculously steep, and everytime I jump off the back here, I have visions of the brakes not working on the truck. Did I mention it was also slippery and wet, and I was wearing my poncho. But the first person I saw was the owner of the house that we had poured concrete for the day before. He was all smiles, and I was thankful to officially meet brother Modesto. I also got to reconnect with Juan Melgar that was doing the preaching again on this day. I think he is a radio announcer, so even tho I can't pick up all of his lesson, I do catch more words with him than with others preaching there.
Brandon led a couple of songs (I surrender All and Jesus name above all names...we sang both in spanish and in english), and I was able to help participate in taking up the collection. At the end of the lesson, they brought up Anyi and Rufino that had a new baby boy, and prayed over them and the new baby. I was happy to see Anyi and her daughter as they are cousins to our sponsored children Lillian and Yeffre, so we got to ask about them. They also had a family that had just moved from Mexico to be here for the next 3 years, and Maximo welcomed them to Honduras. I saw Rigo, whose family is sponsored by the saintly sisters at church, but his children did not make it due to the rain.
I was on the first truck there that morning, so I tried to be on the last one leaving so I could play with all the kids that I missed since last time. The cute little girls in the blue and red disney dresses are Anyis and they quickly came up for hugs when I saw them. Of course they wanted to see some of the new tricks, and I quickly had some new little friends from Mexico too. And my buddy Fabricio that sends me a message every once and awhile was there. I told him to find me when he got there, and he did. Juan Melgar is his uncle. I hated missing his dad Marvin, but he told me he had to work that morning. I had brought Fabricio a copy of "Cajas de Carton" which is one of the few books I could finish in Spanish...hopefully he will like it, he was happy for the small gift. Finally it was time to go, I heard Donny from the other room yelling for me to Com'n.
That afternoon, as everyone started pulling out the peanut butter and jelly for lunch, I mentioned to Belle and Maddyn that papusas sounded much better, and pretty soon we had a crowd heading to the square for papusas. Jeffrey was with us, so Kevin drove us all in a truck over to the papusa restuarant, which was good, because just after we entered, the bottom dropped out and it rained HARD. While the papusas are good at this restuarant, the tacos are amazing. And showing up with a crew of 14 at a place that probably doesn't see that type of crowd often, we knew it would be awhile, but really did not know it would be 1 hour and 15 minutes later before our plates were served. I saw it on Belle's face though, it was worth it, especially with a Salutaris to help wash it down. Davis and Sam just hit the PBandJ, but at least they got to rest a bit. Finally, we all jumped back in the truck to return to the day care, and belle and I stood up riding thru the city with sprinkling of rain soaking us the whole way back.
I could think of nothing but a nap, and after filling my water bottle, I turned to see Gabriel holding Azul, the game we had given his family to play. We are hoping this one will be another one they will enjoy. They loved getting Goat Lords, but all the boys told me their favorite was Ticket to Ride. They have the Junior Edition, as I figured it easier for them to learn on, but hoping to get them the regular version next year. But I couldn't say no, so we started the game with me, Gabriel, and Kim and Lauren joining us. They were also learning the game, and I was trying to remember how to play and also figure out how to explain in spanish.
Then our game of Azul ended exactly at the time we needed to be at the church in the city for the service there. So we rushed up the street to be with that group. Here, they have a kid's class, and we got to share with them the sewing heart activity that Lisa Posey had put together for the group. It went really well, and they all put together the hearts, with Daisy helping tremendously with my broken spanish to give directions to the kids. Belle, Sarah Beth, Linley, Keri, and Brooke did great helping all the kids with this activity. And they selected one of the hearts to all sign and send to Dave Long.
Next Daisy let me try teaching the kids the hand motions for the 17 bible periods, and the kids did really good with these, and many of them had a majority memorized. We played it in a circle game, and all did well, while Daisy and Sindy laughed at me everytime I said Apostales or Biblia because I really butcher those words. And Canaan is also a pain when you pronounce every vowel in it, I think David was picking on me with that word. We also sang some songs, and helped the kids learn Hay Tormentas so they could perform that one on their own for the big class in the auditorium. Finally, I wanted to try to go around in a circle with the books of the bible, but that was a major flop, primarily because my pronuciation is bad with normal words...it is outright horrible with names of the bible. Yeah, we got to Thessalonians or Tesolonifenses, and I just gave up. Fortunately it was time for the kids to go back into the big class anyway. Belle was an awesome helper as always, and helped grab some pictures and video we will use for our report later in September. Then just as we entered the main auditorium, the lights went out, so the kids sang Hay Tormentas in the dark.
After church, we had a great visit with many of our church family there that are not at La Cano, but we had seen most of them the previous night at the youth event. We got our typical group picture outside the building. I got to meet baby Aaron, that was Eduardo's nephew. That was about the cutest little boy, and I loved each chance I got to hold him this week. On this night, he was just cackling as I played hide and seek around his mom, and it made me laugh. I was able to get Israel his new bible, and he asked me to sign it as a gift to him. And we brought Eduardo one of our hymnals in english and he got the whole group to sign his book. Back at the daycare, Maximo, Daisy, Eduardo and Sindy joined us for a meal. I sat with Daisy and Sindy trying to engage in conversations where I could. I will never forget my first year sitting directly across from Daisy, and wanting to talk to her about her family and similar stories with 4 kids...but I did not have the words to even begin. So it was nice to sit and chat, and laugh about kids stories and games. We spoke about the pros and cons of our children getting older.
And it was on this night, that the Texas group got really loud. I mean terribly loud with games, and randomly screaming from the girls room. Wow, about 11PM, I sent the leader a text (He told me to do this) that maybe 11PM would be a good quiet time each night, and it did get a little calmed down after that, but there is no telling when the party would have ended without that text. Oh, and from the pictures below, Sam would want to remember that this was his first "bag" of juice he had been wanting to try for a long time.
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