Tuesday January 23, 2001 Day 9 of Honduras trip

We left Nicaragua this morning on time.  My ears are getting used to flying, they don’t hurt anymore. We are just getting ready to leave El Salvador, we have been here about an hour. It is a nice airport, much more modern than Tegucigalpa which is just a small building. John and I are learning a combination of Spanish, English and sign language! Next time I am determined to speak more Spanish. We met a young girl (15) yesterday who speaks very good English. I asked her who taught her, she said she taught herself with books. So I thought if she can do it so can I!

We will be leaving again this afternoon at 2pm for the southern part of Honduras. We will be there until Saturday morning.  So we can hurry up and unpack and repack and drive on these crazy roads! I told John we need to stock up on junk food because we probably won’t be able to eat the food there. We have decided we would rather starve than get sick again!

We will be leaving here a week from today and I’m getting anxious to go home. I miss the children, our house and of course the cold weather. It has been a tremendous experience so far and we have much to pray about as to where the Lord would want us to send our financial support. I know the people have been blessed by the ministry. John is a teacher and they really need that. I believe they have been challenged.

When we arrived back at the airport, we decided to eat across the street at Burger King. A hamburger never tasted so good! A real american hamburger,  yay! We then went to unpack and prepare for the next trip.

I emailed home but I’m never certain if they go through because all the commands are in Spanish and I guess a lot. Bro Casco’s daughter Carin took me to the grocery store so I could get some food for John and I for our trip. There were 3 guards with rifles standing outside the store. I have a really hard time understanding the money here so I needed Carin to help me figure it out. I bought apples (from Washington) candy, juice and chips. Yes we will survive!

We went to the service way out in the middle of nowhere. It’s hard to believe these people can carve out an existence in these very harsh conditions. It is very dry here and dusty. There are pigs and chickens everywhere. There is no electricity here. They are using Coleman lanterns for light. They use a car battery to power the microphone for the service. After the service we drove to a place called Choluteca where we got a hotel room. It was not the greatest.