Our Last Sunday

As the days wind down here in Honduras, Alina and I are trying to treasure each day.  Today was our last Sunday, meaning it would be the last Sunday church service that we would be attending for 2014.  We asked permission to take Michell to church with us today and were blessed to see that David was preaching.  When teams come in, generally the pastor from the team does the sermon, so it's getting more and more rare while I'm here (from late July to late August) to see David preach, as there are many teams that still go through during this time.

Michell sat next to Alina in her black and gold shirt and black skirt.  She had flat-ironed her hair the night before, which had given it the appearance of being a lot longer than when it's in her naturally curly state.  When church was over, we took Michell to the store and Alina treated her to pizza, a soda, and ice cream with some of the money she had received from her Honduran bracelet fundraiser before coming on this trip.

Towards the end of the time at the store, I headed back to our room to grab our internet modem stick and the computer.  I noticed last night that the 'God's Not Dead' movie is on Netflix and you can choose the dubbed over version in Spanish...so I wanted to show it to the teen moms over at the Toddler House.  Although we had to wait about 4-5 times during the first half-hour of the movie for it to "buffer", the rest of the movie went smoothly.  The girls absolutely were glued to the screen and didn't want to take their 10 minute shift watching the toddlers sleep during the movie.  They were very grateful in the end after seeing it.  If you have not yet seen the movie, check out the website and trailers here...since the movie is now out on DVD and for rental.

God's Not Dead Movie Website - to Preview

When I chatted with Lydia this morning in church, she thought we should find a way to show it to all of the teenagers in the church on Tuesday evening.  There's many obstacles we'll have to go through to get this done such as: Will the internet stick work when internet is so sketchy here?  What do we do if we lose power (no longer can project onto big screen with that many teens)?  Is there a better way to go about showing this movie...other alternatives like downloading a Spanish version to my computer so as not to have to run off of the internet or perhaps someone has an iPad or iPhone via Tigo (a better internet provider than the one I have) where we can download the Netflix app and run it from there?  So there will be lots of things to work out between now and Tuesday if this movie is to be shown.  All-in-all, it'll be in God's hands which I've noticed already.  When I asked for my husband, Bob's help back in the States, he looked the movie up on Netflix and it's not even available up there - so I already count this as a miracle and something that's His will to happen since it's available on Netflix down here.

After watching the movie with the girls, Alina and I headed to the Small Boys house to hand out the remaining Sheriff stickers (left over from the HoeDown) to them, then we headed up to the Power Toddlers house to hand out the barn animal cartoon character stickers (again, left over from the HoeDown) to them and then headed to the Small Girls house to also give them the barn animal stickers.  I think there may be some left yet for the toddlers tomorrow.  We chatted with people along the way, but for the most part the day was winding down so we headed back to our kitchen where we made soup and munched on a cucumber with salt and water.  We did lots of laundry today and folded it, putting it into piles for the people (houses) we were going to take it to.  Alina's suitcase fits inside of mine, so we're plan to give so much away that we really only need to have one visible suitcase going back.  I told Alina that we came down with over 100 pounds of "stuff", and we'll be going back with less than 50 pounds of "stuff"...most of it will get left down here with someone who can use it.