Overdue Post

So I know that a post on my trip to Honduras is long overdue, so here we go...slowly but surely...

Day 1-Sunday:
On Sunday, we worshiped at Iglesia Bautista Comunión in Tegucigalpa. It was great to be back in Spanish church, as it is where I feel most at home. I was volunteered to share my testimony, and I feel I talked too fast, but since most people on the team don't speak Spanish, no one really told me so. It's ok though, I won't be back for a few years.

My sweet roommate, Courtney and I at a lookout overlooking the city. This was taken after we had an AMAZING typical meal of grilled meat (steak, chicken, sausage), beans, rice, traditional fresh cheese and cream, cooked ripe plantains, and tortillas. I thought I had died and gone to heaven. That's the kind of meal that I live for, my friends!
Overlooking the city...beautiful.


Cataluña, San José, Honduras. This is the community we had the privilege to serve on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. They do not have running water, so on Sunday we went with some members of Comunión to distribute gallon bags of water and New Testaments, and to invite them to the activities we were going to be having for the children and women during the week.

Sunday evening, we went to a service at a church that we have served in the past in a community called Santa Rosa. It is up on a hill outside of Tegucigalpa. The road up there is steep with several switch-back curves. Our bus broke down when we were almost there, and though we got out and prayed that it would turn back on and work to take us the rest of the way, God decided we were going to walk the 500 feet we lacked to get to the church.


The view from Santa Rosa. And no, I didn't play with the colors on my computer. God is so good at giving us beauty to reflect on...

Honduras, Here I Come!!

So in 24 hours I will be on an airplane headed to Tegcucigalpa, Honduras with a group from my church for an amazing week. I simply cannot wait. This will be my 3rd trip to Honduras with the church, and I must say, that this trip is addicting.

God has done a lot of amazing things on these trips to Honduras. The first year I went, He confirmed to me my call to missions, and out of that caused me to break up with the guy I was dating from Guatemala. It was my first missions experience apart from my parents, and it changed my life completely. He confirmed to me that He wanted nothing less than what my parents and grandparents had given Him, a live of utter obedience, and consequently ministry.

I skipped one year between the first time I went and the second time I went, and on the trip last year (my second trip) I made some precious friends. I had the opportunity to get close to a lady at my church who has been such an incredible blessing. My brother also went last year, and it was fun watching him in action in missions, to which he and his wife have also expressed a call.

This year will likely be my last trip to Honduras with First Baptist Irving for quite a while. My sweet roommate, Courtney is going for the first time, and I can't wait for her to reap the blessings that going on this trip will bring her.

I wold beg your prayers for all of us next week. Here are some specifics:

1. The community we will be serving is the location of a new church plant that has yet to be established. Pray that God would use our group of 36 crazy Americans to provide an open door to the gospel, particularly through ministry to children and women.
2. Pray for the hearts of the people we will come in contact with, that they would be attracted to the Gospel and receive it as we present it.
3. We will be doing some women's ministry, and the theme I have chosen for that is "The God Who Sees Me". I will be presenting the stories of Eve, Hagar, and The Samaritan Women. We will also be presenting the Gospel to these women on one of the days. Pray that they in their loneliness (many of their husbands are in the States or off with other women) would long to know the God who sees them, and that they would accept His gift of salvation.
4. Pray for safety as we travel, minister, and tour.
5. Pray that the motives of each and every person on the team would be pure and God honoring, not for ourselves.

Thank you so much for your prayers. I will be sure to post pictures when we return!

Random Tag

So I've been tagged...

10 years ago...
I was 12, in the last semester of the 6th grade, I lived in Nicaragua. It was the Spring after Hurricane Mitch hit Central America, so there was a lot of relief work and devastation going on. I had just played the part of Gladys (I think...) in "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever." I also was wearing baggy jeans (my brothers jincos when I could get away with it) and huge t-shirts. I had lots of attention from boys (believe it or not...) and had a huge crush on a particular one named David. My two best friends, Jennifer and Kara and I were hiding under Jenn's little (8 years old?) sister's bed spying on her play "pet store" with her friend and stuffed animals... Must I go on?

Things on my To-do list for today:
Well it's just past midnight, so #1 is obviously sleep, then get up, call 7-ICE hoping that my 8:00 class is canceled due to inclement weather (super wishful thinking), go to my 2 classes if they are not canceled, go shopping for my upcoming trip to Honduras (which I CANNOT wait for!), go to coffee with a friend, go to dinner honoring Amanda, and maybe make it to my class tomorrow night.

What I would do if I suddenly became a Billionaire...:
1. Tithe
2. Save
3. Travel everywhere I've ever wanted to go, and take my family with me
4. Buy a good car
5. Buy clothes
6. Buy a vacation home at my favorite place from #3.

3 Bad Habits:
1. I bite my nails below the quick and pick at my cuticles.
2. I put one or two loads in the laundry and then leave them in the washer/dryer until my roommates force me to take them out, then I don't fold them but leave them on the chair in my room and use them....until the cycle starts again.
3. Procrastinate...

5 Jobs I have had:
1. Translating for volunteer teams that came to Nicaragua growing up/Selling ice-cream to World Changers in Nicaragua when I was 12
2. Student worker at the DBU lab school in 2004-2005
3. Starbucks Barista
4. CBS 11 intern
5. Kids Care sub at church

5 Things People Don't know about me:
1. I was born in Mississippi
2. I love reading fiction...when I have time to read for pleasure, that is.
3. I lived in an adobe house when I was little
4. The adobe house I lived in was in a Mayan Indian village in the last corner of Guatemala before you fall off the face of the earth.
5. The beach is my favorite.

I tag everyone who reads this. :)