The Craft House

This morning, Bob & I began devotions again together; and although I went to the little girls house earlier, he met up with me there to participate in the little girls circle.  The girls enjoyed having him there.  He asked Yency and Elena to sign his hat (which he had already written Orphanage Emmanuel 2012 on).  I served breakfast afterward, did the dishes, and walked the girls to school.  While I was doing dishes, Bob came back and asked for the keys.  I had completely forgotten to grab them since they weren't sitting out on the kitchen table where they normally sit...and since I had been feeling really sick this morning.  We were locked out!!!

Bob & Andres had to wait for Bent to come and pick the lock open, but that was well over an hour.  I had come and had to leave because I was meeting up with Loren and a lady from the California team to take a few children to the craft house.  Good thing that between the 4 doors of the quadraplex, there is a futon and it is a covered/shaded area for them to rest.

At the craft house, the kids strung beads onto pipe cleaners and made bracelets out of them.  It only took about 1/2 hour to do, so we brought the children back and grabbed 6 more to work with.  Loren is taking over the job of taking kids to the craft house, so she needed to get a few ideas.  She worked with this lady from California and also agreed to meet with her again tomorrow afternoon to try another craft.

We finished around 10:30am, so I headed back to the apartment to check on the laundry (needed to get a ton done before heading to the capitol tomorrow).  The lint trap in the dryer was just atrocious...like it had never been emptied...ever!  I got the laundry going and then headed to the little girls house for lunch and to do dishes.  Danny had the day off, and something else happened that they were short-staffed, so Esperanza asked of I could do dishes "solo" and if Loren could clean the dining hall.  Doris helped me to finish dishes early and Loren was still cleaning, so I asked a few of the girls who weren't going to afternoon classes if they could help Loren out.

I headed to the tienda to have lunch with Bob & Andres...ham & cheese sandwiches.  Then we headed to the office to ask Leigh about the bus.  Originally we were thinking of going with Max, who was heading into Tegucigalpa early, but then decided that we wouldn't be able to check into the hotel that early and that it would be better to take the bus.  We'll be heading out for town tomorrow about noon.

I folded more laundry and made some guacamole for the little girls for supper.  While I was making guacamole, Doris came over and played a card game with Bob & Andres.  I could hear them laughing in the living room...it was fun to listen to.

The little girls had already bathed before supper, so when I got there I helped to set up tables and set out the silverware.  I served each girl just a small tablespoon of guacamole on top of their rice.  They were ALL very appreciative and all said "gracias".

After church, I had to head back to the apartment to get changed for church.  This evening's message was about the prodical son and was given by the pastor of the California group.  It was really good.  At the end, David recognized the team with a plaque.  I didn't expect him to have us stand as well & let the kids know that we've come down as a family & were leaving tomorrow, and that he was very grateful for this because he knows our culture and that many families would much rather choose to spend their money on vacations for themselves than doing something like this.  (What he doesn't know is that coming here gives me MORE REST than any vacation I've been on...there's nothing as good as rest for the soul!)

After church, I took all of my extra clothes to the little girls house and had the teen girls choose what they wanted.  Each year I bring clothes down that I plan to leave behind.  I leave them with the older girls, but ask that they are not greedy, but divide them up equally.  When I got back to the apartment, Doris stopped over and stayed for about an hour.  She ate some scrambled eggs & toast with us and then we just chatted out in the living room for a while.  I walked her back to her house about 7:45pm and we chatted for about 15 minutes there before I had to retreat back to the apartment to get some sleep.