Honduran Slip 'n Slide

Yesterday the Alabama team left and two other teams came in, one from California (the group I was anticipating) and the other from Ohio (some members I'm also familiar with)...there were over 40 people in total!

This morning Alina and I ate some Corn Pops for breakfast.  These had been left over from the HoeDown and since volunteers have off from their responsibilities on Sundays, we didn't eat over at the Toddler House.  The problem was that in our kitchen, the only 2 bowls were extremely small (you might use them to mix baby cereal?).  So I thought that it would be okay to have TWO bowls full of cereal, while Alina filled her bowl 4 times.

We then prepared to head to church, and listened to an awesome sermon (probably the best since I've been here this year) from the youth pastor from Ohio.  It was evident from the beginning that he was a youth pastor because he immediately captured the attention of ALL of the teens in the church.  He began the sermon talking about how early on in life he would choose HIS way rather than listening to his parents and gave an example of throwing sticks and stones at a big pile of rocks in the yard, underneath which was a huge hornets (or wasps) nest.  Although his parents said leave it alone, he figured that he could stand at a safe distance since he was in baseball and threw the sticks and rocks at it day after day until the insects decided to organize and chase him after many days of being tortured.  It was a hard lesson because he was stung numerous times.  He talked about how he should have listened to his parents who were concerned about his safety and well-being, and equated that to learning to listen better to God rather than taking your own path and doing your own thing.

After church we dropped off the 2 double-dutch jump ropes from the MD team to Zue's house for the girls to play with and then walked the 3 remaining frisbees to the grandecitos house.  When we returned we noticed that the Ohio group had set up a Slip and Slide for the medium girls.  They were wet and dirty!...but having tons of fun.  The youth pastor that had spoken this morning was also there and was running hand in hand with many kids down the slip and slide.  It was a blast to watch.

Honduran Slip 'n Slide

Getting the mud rinsed off

At the end of the day we were introduced to a family who had come in from Atlanta.  They have 4 children and the father just got done with his residency...he's a doctor.  He'll be working all week with Karelia in the clinic here at the orphanage.  I'm hoping that he has some insight to Nicole in the Toddler House as she's going to the hospital on Wednesday to have yet another procedure done.