So I woke up around 5am to once again have my cafecito and my devotional time before getting ready for church. Church doesn't start until 8:15, but I don't want to fall out of the pattern of being able to get up early. As it is, Honduras is 1 hour behind Wisconsin time, meaning 8am in Honduras is 9am in Wisconsin. When Alina & I arrived at church, we headed up to the very front row to sit next to Michell. Alina commented that this was the first time ever sitting in the first row here at Emmanuel. I let her know that she'd better pay attention or Papi (David, the founder of the orphanage) might tease her like he did another girl during Wednesday night's service...about tuning out because she's thinking about her boyfriend. A man from the Alabama team that is here gave the sermon, which was unusually short, but effective. He gave a sermon last year about a horse saddle and the different parts to the saddle and compared that to our relationship with God.
 |
| Sunday Service (from left to right): Yensi, Michell and Alina |
After church, Alina & I quickly went home and changed and then headed to the tienda for a bite to eat, then headed to the big girls yard until they had to get ready for lunch. While they were eating, we went back to our room to do some cleaning. We washed a load of laundry and then folded the numerous blankets that had been washed and just left in our room when we arrived. The closet is now full of sheets, blankets, pillow cases, towels and wash cloths. As I was folding a towel, a cockroach dropped down from between its creases and ran onto Alina's bed. We had already put all of the suitcases on her bed because we were going to look for the OTHER cockroach and didn't want it constantly running underneath stuff. Now it appeared we had 2 cockroaches that we needed to find and scoot out of our room. So I started to move the suitcases off of the bed and it appeared the cockroach disappeared. The last place I saw it go was underneath Alina's suitcase, so I lifted her suitcase up from off of the floor and set it down a little more harshly...yep, a cockroach fell out of the creases (and this is why we keep our suitcases zipped shut at all times). It ran under the big couch. I got the broom and told Alina to lift the couch. We were more grossed out than flittery, fluttery and screaming. It was a pretty calm 'grossed-out'. She moved the couch, but we didn't see anything. We spent quite a bit of time going back and forth between moving the couch, the love seat and the chair and trying to find it, but we didn't. Then we headed to the bed. We lifted the mattress, but no cockroach...so our hunt was a failure this time around. Perhaps later. I'll keep you posted on that.
In all of the commotion of searching for the cockroaches, when it was time to go to the Medium Girls' yard, I left the key in the room an locked the door (ugh). So while Alina went to chat and play with the medium girls, I had to find a way to get into our room so we could get the keys. When there's a problem here, there's a lot of running around. I view it as 'exercise' opportunities! Andi sent me to Katja who sent me to Heidy...but it all turned out well and we got back into the room.
Alina brought the big girls some paletas. These are mango suckers that are coated in a hot chili pepper. I've been bringing the girls these paletas since I started coming to Emmanuel 8 years ago. They absolutely love them and ask me for them every time. Due to the quantity we bring down, our bags (Bob's especially) tend to get checked by the airlines now.
 |
| Alina and some of the Big Girls |
When the girls had to go in for the night, Alina and I headed back to our room and I made us some guacamole. We followed that up with a cinnamon roll (since guacamole doesn't really fill the stomach). We met 2 volunteers that moved into Zue and Elizabeth's house, named Sara and Morgan. Sara is taller than I am (nice!) and is really into basketball. I let her know that she needs to take Alina down to the gymnasium when she gets the girls down there...and also that Alina brought 3 basketballs down here to play with. Alina seemed to be very excited at the chance to play basketball.
 |
| This evening's healthy food: Guacamole |
To wrap up the night, we called home. We chatted with Bob and Kaylyn, but found the the boys were already in bed. There was lots to talk about and lots of happenings to be filled in on both sides, so we went over our 'allotted minutes', meaning what should've been a 1/2 hour $1.50 phone call (that's the package deal we ordered) turned into using a lot more money since the call lasted 37 minutes...as anything over 30 minutes gets charged at a LOT higher rate.
Posts
