My mission is LOVE

Love. Love. Love. That's all I want to spread.

Love them like Jesus.

My students continue to be extremely adorable.  And we continue to play and learn each day.  Our latest fun "crafty" projects included a class mobile and paint butterflies for the letter B.  

                                                  

Saturday morning a group of us traveled the hour to Santa Rosa to volunteer at an orphanage we had heard about.  It was called “Missionaries de Caridad.”  When we got there an older lady and a very young girl were waiting outside the gate as well.  I’m not sure if the little girl was being dropped off at the orphanage or not, but I do know that she must have been starving because she was eating plants as we waited for someone to come to open the gate.  One of the workers opened the gate after about 20 minutes and told us that we had to go to the church down the street to find the sisters of the orphanage, in order to enter.  So we went to the church and found them.  They were dressed in their clothing and just as sweet as could be.  As she walked us back to the orphanage she explained that there are about 38 children in the orphanage from 6 months to 6 years old.  She also told us that Mother Teresa once visited the orphanage too, which has been running for 25 years.  I love Mother Theresa so I was very excited to hear this news!

Playing with the children

Food coma.

Naomi and I

 

As soon as the doors to the orphanage were opened, a number of children came running towards us all with arms wide open.  And we sure did shower them with love for the time we were there.  We mostly played with the children and also helped to feed some of them.  The orphanage has 6 workers and it is very nice and clean- I was VERY impressed.  I want to love on those children so much while I am here, so I know I will be volunteering at the orphanage as much as I can! 

One of the sisters with one of the boys--This picture is SO beautiful to me.

She's beautiful.

After the orphanage we went to an Abundant life Christian School soccer game. It was the championship game and we won 1-0.  It was fun spending time with students from our school and cheering the team on!  Later that night we celebrated with a delicious barbecue! 

Sunday morning Kiley and I walked down the street a bit to see the parade we had heard about.  It turned out to be really awesome!  It was a parade about the importance about recycling, and everyone had outfits on that were made out of garbage.  There were some really creative, and even beautiful outfits! 

We then went to a house church up a mountain in a small village.  Maritza works for Shannon and Kristi, the missionary family here (Kristi is a teacher at our school too) and it was her cousin's house that we went to.  There were about 4 people at the house church, and then a group of us American teachers.  Shannon preached and Sarah translated for him.  It was a really neat experience, and nice to have a sermon that I fully understood, since it was in English.  Shannon explained to the family that we were hungry for God's Word, and that it has been really difficult to fully meet that need here when we don't know the Spanish language well, and don't understand the sermons at local churches.  He couldn't have spoke truer words.  So it was very refreshing to go to this house church, and understand what is being said, while also listening to the sermon in Spanish as well.  I can't wait for my tutoring to begin at the end of the month, so I can communicate with people much more easily and start to develop deeper relationships with the people in Honduras.