Give Thanks to the Lord, for He is Good!

Our weekend in Tela was beautiful, refreshing, and much needed!  All of us girls traveled together to Tela (which led for Kiley and I to not get ourselves in trouble) and a great time for us all to hang out together again outside of Gracias.  When we arrived in Tela we met up with some of Stacey's friends from Tegucigalpa, who were awesome to hang out with and get to know-they even spoke very well English!  We knew with a hurricane coming to the coast soon in Honduras that the weather would be a bit chilly, which it was.  But it didn't rain, and the weather didn't stop us from enjoying the beach and pool.  We stayed at a beautiful resort right on the beach, going down the pool slide in ways we weren't supposed to (in groups and head first), played pool volleyball, sand volleyball, sand soccer, and even rode a 4-wheeler on the beach!  The waves were absolutely huge, and there ended up being a red flag for swimming both days, so we just enjoyed the ocean by its beauty and the sound of its waves.  At night we enjoyed music and karaoke on the beach, and even a live show at our hotel!  It was an active weekend, but very relaxing and refreshing at the same time--and SO much fun.

 And today was just a typical day after a three day weekend: crazy.  My students just have a hard time getting back into the school week.  And they are still learning how to repeat after me (and still hardly do it).  Today it just really got to me that so often I am completely talking to myself half the time, because either they don't understand, or aren't even listening to me.  So whenever you might say a prayer for me, that is something specific you could be praying for me about.  I'll admit, it's sometimes easy to feel like a bad teacher when there is such a language barrier, and it definitely takes patience to not let some things get to you.  But, we still do manage to have some fun inside the classroom and my students do continue to get cuter and cuter.  We have to change our classroom decorations every 2 months so that is something we have been busy working on right now too.  They don't celebrate Thanksgiving here, but they know that us American teachers do, so a lot of our decorations are for Thanksgiving.  The school even takes us to Tegucigalpa (the capitol) for a Thanksgiving weekend celebration, where we stay at a hotel, dress up, and have a full Thanksgiving feast together.  With my love for food, especially Thanksgiving food...I CANNOT WAIT!   

Psalm 107:1 Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.

 PS.  My plane ticket to go home for Christmas was officially booked!  I will be in Arizona from Dec 17th-January 1st...so feel free to visit!  Just saying, it'd be a wonderful Christmas present :) 

Mom and dad, I'm sure you wouldn't mind, right?!