"Go therefore and make disciples...."

Last week was such a blast! Jared arrived, then my mom and Kris. Prepared and ready to preach, sing, play guitar and show these kids love from The United States!



My kids welcomed them with a nice sign complete with glitter and pictures they asked me for. They were so cute! We showed my brother the local cathedral and had our fair share of native Honduras food. "Con frijoles." =)

Kris did Week of Prayer for the high school kids, then he did evangelistic meetings at night. He was pretty tired by the end, but I can tell you he blessed so many people, including the the missionaries!
Jared did worship for the staff a few time in the EARLY morning as well as did music for the week of prayer, helped with song service at night and did beautiful special musics for the meetings at night.
My kids absolutely LOVED having my family and Jared there. Jared came to class with me almost every class and they loved having him help them with their math problems and such.
My mom brought my kids pipe cleaners, doesn't seem too cool, but you'd be surprised!!!!
The first night of the meetings Jared and I sang a special music together and then the other nights he did them by himself. We didn't have a mic stand so I got to be the human stand! I stood on the step so that I could reach him! HAHAHA!
Jared, my mom and I went to the girls orphanage one day and got to help the girls make pastries. I was SUPER BAD AT IT! But It was really fun!
Kris did really well speaking. What an amazing TREAT it was to hear sermons in English. It's like Christmas! They brought bus fulls of people every night and the people seemed very touched. At the end we had quite a handful of people baptized, a lot of them children. It was really cool to see the changes take place in people. I'm so excited because last year i went on a mission trip to Guatemala, and when you go on short term mission trips, you are certainly blessed by what you see, but then you leave, and don't get to see the people afterwords, if they continue to come to church, to feel loved, or if it just fades a little bit once you leave.
But this time, I am still here for almost 3 more months, I am still here able to see the growth these people will have in their new found love and trust in Jesus. PRAISE GOD!
So that was last week in a nutshell! =) I sit here, thanking God for his impact, his love, his ability to see us through, my brothers gift of preaching, Jared's gift of music, and for giving us love that we can share with others!
This week my mom, my brother, and I are going to be relaxing, enjoying the beach and the sun! Stay tuned! =)

BITTEN!

Well, here we have it. This is the centipede that made my lip it's home last night.
I was sleeping soundly and all of t he sudden I felt something bite me! I JUMPED out of bed and ran into the bathroom and I still felt WHATEVER it was crawling on me so I like did this little dance to get it off then proceeded to scream "HEIDI KILLLL ITTTT!!!!!!!!!!! IT"S RIIIIIIIIIIIGHHHTT THERE!!!!!!!!!" She frantically smashed it with her shoe and then came to find me saying that it bit me and pointing at my lip. It didn't take long for my lip to swell up to the size of Texas, as you can tell. This is probably the most flattering picture of me you'll ever see. I almost didn't let Heidii take a picture, but then I decided, oh well, "BLOG IT" as Sasha would say. SO here I am, at home, waiting for Loyda to come pick me up to take me to the doctor. It hurts really bad stil and last night I was quite sure I was going to die. My throat was closing up and I was just crying, thinking how lame it would be to die a death by centipede.
Heidi looked online last night and saw that "it can only kill small children." Oh good. How comforting! =) At least I'm not a small child! I can still talk, with a little lisp, but I didn't go teach because my kids wouldn't pay attention to me anyway! I WONDER WHY!
Anyway, hope your day goes better than mine has so far! =) But God is indeed STILL good!

I'm getting worse and worse at this! =)

Well, now it has been almost a month. Not much has happened actually, I started getting tutored for spanish so I have three hours a week. Sasha turned 20 so we had like 3 birthday parties for her. haha! it was super fun! Things are going well, my kids are totally giving in to my new V.I.K. system. I give one kid a week a present and then the next week they get to help me be 9in chrage. They have their own book tha they write down the kids that are talking and such. It works like a charm! =) Then on Friday I announce the NEW V.I.K. and give the old one a Jesus book. Jared brought me a whole stack of books like "jesus friend of children" and the kids LOVe them! So that appears to be working nicely!
It's Sabbath and I can't believe it's almost march!
I'm doing well! =)

It's been too long... Lo siento!

Hey Readers!
Almost a month has gone by since I last wrote about what is going on down here. It's been so busy.... We had partial tests, and now I'm doing recuperation tests. Which might I add, i think is a rather ridiculous system. But hey, amongst all the grading, and husseling kids to turn in their math books, We had a birthday party! Esdras Ricardo, one of my favorite kids from 2A. As you can see, it got a little crazy in the classroom! I was tempted to be like "SIT DOWN PLEASE!" But I remembered that his parents were there! haha! Then we traveled outside to have a pinata! of course! What is a party without a pinata!
I had a quite a few kids not pass this partial, but less than last partial, so that's good. One of my kids, Daniel, never turned in his math book tome, not ONCE all partial. So his accumulative is "0" I reminded him every day and he wouldn't bring it. So now he brought it today and wanted me to grade the whole math book. I don't think so! =) I feel bad for him, but he's never going to learn if i just let him do everything on his own time. The thing that is sad is that he would've passed NO PROBLEM if he would have just handed in his math book. That's where I'm having to practice tough love, which doesn't come easy!
I made Kayla a birthday cake and we had at the agape feast we had the
other night. It was made with chocolate cake mix, chocolate chips (thanks to whoever sent me that =) ) M&Ms to write "K F" and then crumbled oreos all over the top. Complete with two mini American flags (a package once again...) I CANNOT TELL YOU ENOUGH HOW THANKFUL I AM FOR ALL THE PACKAGES I RECEIVED OVER CHRISTMAS! I AM IN SHOCK! Those were a definite moral booster and I am still reaping the benefits! I got so much stuff, everything from m & ms to coloring books, to play-do to little american flags to muffin mixes, pencils, crayons, stickers, I CANNOT TELL YOU ENOUGH! so thank you, THank you so much =). It's hard not to be home, and January is pretty tough. I would have to say that it has been the toughest month so far. It feels like it has gone by so slow and I find myself thinking about home more and more. I am still growing and still learning things for sure. All the time I have to switch my discipline strategie because after a while, the kids just don't care anymore! On Sabbath I had a thought that I should pick up some trash around our street. We are tired of looking at it, and trash doesn't pick up itself. I headed outside with my black trash bag and a blue rubber glove. What a sight. I got a lot of stares, and I hope that i didn't offend anyone. But i felt like doing something productive on Sabbath. Something not for myself. So the street was a little cleaner for a day and I'm praying that I made an impression on the neighborss as they stood outside and watched the white girl pick up trash. I had weird thoughts as I was doing it. Something inside my head kept saying "you are too good for this, what are you doing?" What gave me this idea? Jesus washed peoples feet. HE WASHED THEIR FEET! I am not really a fan of feet, and Jesus, my Lord, my Savior, washed his disciples feet. Why is it that we somehow have this innate thought that we are "too good" for something? It was so humbly, and I think God wanted me to do it on purpose. To teach me something, to show me that I NEED to humble myself more often. Anyway, take this story and think to yourself "what is something I can do TODAY to make me humble myself before God and the people around me?"
Have a good day! =)

Surely Will make you smile!

This little girl's name was Bridgette. She is super adorable as you can see! Enjoy!

Video!

So this is a skill that I will never be able to master, Most of the time it drives me crazy, because they walk ALL over the classroom doing it. But it puts a smile on my face, and I think it might put one on yours! =)

X-mas NEWS

Man! It has been forever since I wrote! i will do my best and update you on all my AWESOME activities since I last wrote!
We had our Christmas program on Thursday night, December 11. It was so adorable. All of us were dressed up, our kids looked adorable and I stood up in front of them and directed them. I felt so proud. THey did SO well! I was beaming, like a proud parent. hahaha. After my kids sang they ran straight to the classroom where they all had presents waiting under our christmas tree.
The parents had gone together and bought all he girls hannah montana bags (GASP) And the boys Legos. Theyy immediately started tearing into them. I WAS LIKE "WAAAAAAIIITTTTT!!!!!!!!!" But it was no use, they were done for. So i just let them go ahead, after all, it was Christmas right?!
So now comes the super exciting part.
December 12- All the teachers went to the school to take down all the christmas decorations (*tear) and then we all went out to eat. All the teachers and staff in one room at a restaurant! it was so fun! I did a secret santa and so I gave my present away and got mine and then returned home. My mom and I took our stuff over to Greg and Emily's where we were goign to be staying for the weekend then we awaited our bus. The bus to take us to San Pedro, to get jared. =) I wish I could explain to you my excitement, but I will try and hold it in.
So long story short, we drove to San Pedro, waited in the terminal for what seemed like eternity and FINALLY I saw him come out behind the door. I ran past all the people and hugged him! It was about time!
That Sabbath all of us girls, Jared, and my mom went to the plaza and took a guitar, violin, and an Obo. Sometimes we like to sing in the cathedral, so that[s what we did. Then we were having so much fun that we sang out in the plaza and people were gathering around us! it was so much fun!
Sunday night the girls surprised me with a "happy half birthday party" and it was ADORABLE! they made a life-size little mermaid and put it on the wall and had fish all over the wall too, we ate crepes (my favorite!) and played Disney Trivia. Of course my team won! =) My birthday is June 4 and a lot of the girls will already be gone by then, so they decided to have a half birthday party! Can't say I've ever had a birthday in December! =)
I got to show Jared my classroom, my school and my town! We went to get smoothies at our FAVORITE place, 'Tropical Juice'!
On Monday Sasha, Heidi, Kristen, Jared, my mom and I headed out on our adventure. And an adventure it was!
We hoped on a bus to La Guama and got off and got a nice man to take us up to the National Park in the back of his truck. =) My mom REALLy enjoyed this. We got to the national park and got into our little dorm room and were set. Our trip had finally begun!
We hiked around the next day and ate the local food, plato typico (beans, rice, tortillas, plaintains and cheese.)
The next day we hopped back on another bus and headed to some other town, only to walk around, find another bus and get on it until finally we arrived in Tela. I told the Taxi Driver where we were going but they were confused so after I called the guy who owned the place he explained it to them and we finally arrived!
"Caribbean Coral Inn" It was incredible! INCREDIBLE! We played in the waves and hung out with these adorable kids! The sunsets were gorgeous and we had the BEST FOOD! we would tell them what we wanted to eat, they would go out and buy our food and make it for us. We were the only ones staying there and it was like we had our own private beach! Hardly anyone was on it but these local Garifuna people! They speak this weird Jamaican spanish! A few spoke English and came up to Jared and asked him if he played basketball! He ended up playing with these local guys on a court that was barely off the beach! They werre amazed at this White boy who could dunk! Anyway, after Tela we headed to La Ceiba where we stayed in a hostel called "Banana Republic Guesthouse!"I have never been to onne of those so it was pretty sweet! There was a community kitchen and a girl was there from Australia, just traveling around for a few months!
So after the hostel we got on the Ferry to Utila! I was up front because i was PRAYING that God would let me see a wild dolphin! I have alwasy wanted to see one, and so I figured this was my chance! So as I was busy in conversation I hear "LOOK KANDICE!" i look over just in time to see FIVE beautiful, gorgeous creatures jump out of the water and go back in! It was awesome! I wish i could tell you EVERYTHING, but this is already the LONGEST blog in the history of blogs, so i will try and keep it brief! We did awesome things! Our place that we stayed was OVER the water adn so we had an aquarium below our feet! We saw sting rays, Puffer fish, baracudas, i was beautiful! We had a hammock and beautiful sunsets every single night! We went snorkeling, SCUBA Diving and we just hung out around the island. Island life is awesome! Jared, Sasha and I went to this Friday night vespers at this little SDA church and ended up talking to the pastor who jared asked if he coudl borrow a guitar and told him we'd do special music if he wanted us too... It was kind of a joke on our part but the next day my mom, Jared and I were sitting in church and in the middle of the service he pastor stopped and said that "our visitors have a special for us!" I just about died! So anyway, we got up front and sang a song together, "hide me now," it was awesome. It was such a blast and I'm SO glad we did it! Those people were so greatful! It was so good for me to see something so beautiful come out of nothing, we had kind of practiced a "what if they ask us" song but not really, so up front at this church was totally unrehearsed! But God totally pulled through. He made us sound beautiful together. It was a complete blast! I won't ever forget my christmas I spent on the beach, eating Top Ramen for lunch! It was definitely hard to say goodbye when Jared left, but the memories will last forever! I hope you enjoyed my novel! I will try and not write so much next time! =) I hope you all had a very merry Christmas! Please keep all the girls in your prayers, many of them went back to the States for Christmas and they need your prayers in getting back into the swing of living in Honduras, it's definitely not the U.S. this we have learned.
I have been blessed greatly, and I'm learning so much. My mom leaves on Tuesday and then It's back to reality. Back to my kids, and back to responsibility. I'm halfway, and time has flown by! I am going to miss this place, I know I will. And I miss my kids too. I never thought I'd say this, but I actually am excited to hear the word "MMMMIIISSSSSSS" that's my name, dont' wear it out! ;) Feliz Ano Nuevo!