Hugs from family and VBS...this is the life!

Hello everyone I hope you all had a wonderful week and for the people at SWO I pray your lives were changed forever! This week was a down low type of week for us here in Honduras, and that was gooood for all of us! Here is the scoop:

Friday we got back to the mission house after a long and wonderful week at Bet-el camp grounds with the orphans from Orphanage Emmanuel. Friday night we all just hung at the mission house and just got to sit on our butts...it was nice cause I think we were all a little tired. However all would agree that we could have stayed at camp so much longer!

Saturday was the big day though...the day I had been wanting to come for over a year. I would be getting to see the Orphans from Fe, Esperanza, y Amor Orphanage. If you didn't know that is the orphanage that I worked with last year when we came with Hillside UMC (btw I miss you all sooo much and wish you could be here to see the kids...they all miss you BELIEVE me). Saturday day was another chill day, but I was so anxious for the night! That night we were taking the orphans to Pizza Hut...which I am not sure who found it a better present me or the orphans haha...just kidding they love American food so it was fun for them.

So it was the time to leave to go see the kids and Cristina and I were so excited that we couldn't even talk. We pull up to the orphanage that evening and the kids already have the gate open waiting for us at the front door! Cristina and I jump out of the car and rush in to the best hugs we have ever gotten. It was what I had been waiting for...and hear me when I say it was AMAZING! I am sure you all know who I was most anxious to see though so I will tell you that story as well...and for those of you who dont know her name is Marjuri but last year we gave her the nickname Fiesty and she was my best friend all week! Anyway I saw her and gave her a huge hug, but for some reason it was a little awk between us...I wasn't too sure why. I think it was because we hadn't seen each other in a year and she didn't know how to show her emotions...it doesnt matter becuase we all hung out for a while and it was too good for words! Then we all loaded up in a bus to head to pizza hut...we had sooo much fun and talked and joked with the girls all of dinner. THEN on the way home Fiesty asked me to sit next to her and it made me so happy! We looked at pics on my cam from last year and just talked about school and different stuff it was really good..gosh I missed them all so much! P.S. Ryan Gladiz still likes you and I told her you said hi! 

The rest of the week can be summed up in a good paragraph. We started VBS at Renacer Church (which means rebirth) the first day we didn't have a ton of kids but it grew every day! We sang songs, did skits, played games, did crafts, prayed, laughed, and had a TON of fun! Who wouldn't want to spend  their week worshipping God like that? Anyway it was so much fun and again God was faithful and showed up big time...a lot of little kids dedicated their lives to Christ and I know there was a party in Heaven for that...Glory to God totally cause without Him VBS would have been nothing cause we were tired teens but through Him we were all awake and having sooo much fun with those kids! 

We took two trips to the Honduran mall this week and I am not gunna lie its pretty nice! I was able to call home and i really liked that...get this it only cost $1.50 to talk for 30 min! geeeze nice for me! Yes we are on a mission trip but we had a lot of free time so why not have a little fun :) and my fun included getting a pedicure...it was sooooooo nice! 

Here is the scoop for this coming week: there has been a slight change of plans. Cristina and I were supposed to be going to the Fe, Esperanza, y Amor Orphanage this week to help out there, but Olga and Issac never really responded positively about it so Mark made the executive decision that we would just stay with the group this week and head back to Guinope with them. Yes, Cristina and I were very sad, but that was clearly what God wanted so I am really okay with it! Soooo that being said I am leaving this morning and heading back up the mountain to Guinope to do another week of work and ministry alongside the most wonderful people...i am excited to see what God is going to do again! 

Funny story: so this is why I don't take many showers...people tell me that hot water exists in Honduras, but it is all how you turn on the shower head...obviously I had never gotten it right because in all the 9 showers I have taken here in Honduras ( yeah i know thats a small number considering I have been here 22 days but its almost half so I will survive lol) have been the coldest thing I have ever stepped into. I have gotten used to it by now, but in the middle of the week the tables turned and I found myself in a hot shower...imagine that! However wouldn't you know that the shower head would break as soon as I finish and hot water that was about 200 degrees comes shooting out burning the junk out of me and on top of that the shower wouldn't turn off so the demon water kept melting my skin off and on top of that the shower head started smoking..hmmm not so good I thought to myself...soo I started to scream...really loud...in comes one of the interns Abby and shoves me out of the shower and fixes it like it is no problem. I am not meant to take showers I tell you! ha on the plus side Abby and I grew a lot closer that day if you know what I mean lol. 

So that was my week! I have been reading a lot out of Forgotten God and wow that book is so amazing. I have been challenged to live off the power of the Holy Spirit and it has been hard, but really rewarding when I let him take control. I am also reading a book called Priceless and it is soooo good I am almost done with that too! This week has been a really good chill week to prepare us for a good/hard week of ministry starting today! 

Bible Verse:  2 Corinthians 3:3 write Gods loves not on things but on human hearts that is a mark that will last that can be done through living through the Spirit!  And 2 Corinthians 3:7-11 its just really good! 

I love you all and miss you so very much! Thanks for all the encouraging comments I look forward to reading them at the end of every week! loveee you!