CLEAN UP ON AISLE 9!

Well, we got to go help people. We set out to walk around and find some people to help and stumbled upon a girl who went to our school! We were so excited! We got right in there and started shoveling mud out the door. It was so awful to see the houses wrecked but it felt so good to help them. I was sweeping mud and all the sudden I saw something move! I yelled "STOP!" I picked it up and it was a little turtle. I was going to keep it and it ended up being the little girls pet! I WAS SO HAPPY! I SAVED HER PET TURTLE! The girl offered it to me but of course I declined. Heidi told me that the father was telling her in Spanish that she should give it to me because we helped her. So luckily for Heidi's stunning Spanish skills I didn't take the turtle.
We prayed with the man when we were done and he was really appreciative. This was the 2nd time that they had to clean out the mud from their house so I can imagine it was getting really tiring! Anyway, it was a good day, we felt like we actually got to do something that we could SEE the difference! It was sweet!

Prayers are needed...

Hello again,
I am overcome with emotion. Today we had school, which we really shouldnt´of because the governmetn told everyone not to because of the floods. But anyway, we got to school, I taught one class, it was going well. My kids were being EXTRA loving and I thought to myself ¨today will be a good day!¨ Well not so much, soon after Ms. Jessie came in and told me that the bridge was about to break so the kids who were going to La Paz had to leave RIGHT then. So they were frantically getting their stuff into their bags and one of my girls, Shellsea, looked up at me and said, with tears inher eyes, ¨Miss, I don´t want to leave you!¨ She was afraid that maybe she wouldn´t see me again. I´m sure that the bus made it over the bridge safely, although I haven´t heard yet. She brought tears to my eyes. I love these kids, I realized that today the most.
I think about the families who have lost their homes, lost loved ones, my heart aches for them.
Kasey (my brother) died on November 7, 1999. It´s coming up, I already have thought about how hard it is going to be to be away from home, away from the cemetary, and away from my mom. Every year I go to the cemetary, to just remember him. BUt not this year. I am thousands of miles away. I´m keeping my head held high though, I know that this is where God wants me. I´m here for a reason. We´re going to go out and help the people who will lose their homes. I say WILL because they have to let the Dam open if it gets to full, so it won´t break... they already have let it down a few times, and caused people in Comayagua to lose their homes. They will do it again today or tomorrow, as it keeps raining. We will go out to help then.
Keep the people on Honduras in your prayers. Please.
ANd keep the seven of us, in your prayers as well.
Thanks so much!

Rain Rain Rain

It's raining! it has been raining for the past 36 hours... STRAIGHT! We are crossing our fingers that tomorrow will be a "rain day"... yes that's right... they don't have SNOW days.. But the river is flooding so if it rains all night, then we might not have school tomorrow. We're all crossing our fingers... It's been a long week. BUT I HAVE A STORY! Today I was in the middle of 2nd grade math and my kids started going crazy. i couldn't understand why though because THAT class is normally pretty good. My classroom is right next to the front entrance and I looked out and noticed a white guy with long hair. WOW A WHITE GUY I thought to myself... I asked my kids who it was, since they obviously thought he was some kind of celebrity and they all chanted in unison "It's Diduch!!!" Ok... i thought to myself... weird name.
It turns out he is a soccer player from Argentina that played for the Comayagua team but got injured so he hasn't been here for a while. His little boy attended our school when he was here before and now I gues she is starting back at our school on Monday. A FAMOUS KID! Super cute blonde kid. Oh yes, and funny thing, you see a Gringo (white man) and assume they know English... bahahaha.... he didn't speak any English.
So that is my story for today... I hope you enjoyed. =)

Updates!

Man, I need to get better about updating this thing! Things are going well. This weekend was a long weekend so it was super good to get to relax and rejuvenate. We had a ¨sleepover¨on Sunday night. We all slept on the floor in the other house. It was so fun. Before that we got the priviledge of being excourted from our house to the other house for our tradition of an Agape feast. Sunday marked 8 weeks of us being In Honduras. CRAZY! We all sat around on the floor and had tons of fruit and top ramen. A little tradition we started.... Bethani read out of Thessalonians and we talked about life. I really love this group of girls. I don´t know what I´d do without them. Each of them brings somethin awesome to our group. I´m so lucky to have them. I miss back home, especially last thursday when i got to skype with my mom and there were tons f people at my house for THe office... my house is full... and i´m not home... weird. I´ll be ok though. I know I´m supposed to be here!
>Till next time'