Home sweet Hogre

I'm back in Honduras.  The weather is wonderful.  I spent about 6 weeks in the states working for my brother.  I'm extremely thankful for the job, but goodness gracious its hot in Georgia.  But I have alittle more money in my pockets and little more muscle in my arms. 

So first thing, I got to spend the first 2 weeks of this trip with 2 teams from my home church.  We had such a large group last year that my church split two groups to send them to the farm this year.  It was really cool to start of my trip in Honduras with my church family there.  My parents even made it down during the second week.  I was pretty super busy, so i didn't get to spend quite as much time with my teams as I had hoped.  Yet it was great staying with them in the mission house and watching them with my girls. 

We have a few MAJOR changes going on at the school.  Last week we hired two Honduran teachers (with college degrees) to take over alot of the teaching responsibilites.  Its both exciting and intimidating at the same time.  I have real high hopes for where the school is going.  The new teachers will be able to cover alot of topics I'm not capable of.  The will also help to take some of the responsibilities at the school off my shoulders.  Yet, I'm not so sure the teachers like listening to a young, North American all of the time.  Now, I by no means know everything about school in Honduras and I obviously need some help up at the school with so many girls.  Yet, in the meetings so far, they seem very.... confident.  I think confidence is a good thing, but sometimes too much confidence can be a bit annoying.  Or if your confidence deters you from taking the director of the school too serious, it leans towards problematic.  They keep telling me about how they have been trained and how school runs in Honduras.  They don't understand yet that want better than that.  But we'll get there when we get there.  Be in prayer for the school please.  We've got some hard weeks of work ahead of us.  But I really feel like we'll be better able to serve the girls in the end.

I'm going to make this a short blog because even though its my day off, I have several more things to do in La Esperanza, need to pick up my bike, and I need to get back to the farm for a meeting.  A couple more things to pray for though please.  1) there have been talks about getting satellite internet at the farm.  This would be awesome.  I could talk to my family for free AND the girls could skype sunday school classes or supporters from the states.  This would be nice.  And 2) sometime in the near future I need to start thinking about fincancial support for the future.  I've been in Honduras for a year and I really feel that God is calling me back for long term (think years, not months).  So far I've been working in the states for months at a time to pay my way.  Yet, I think in order to be down here as much as God has planned for me (and as much as I simply want to be), I will need to look at some other options.  Pray for me though if you think about it.  Sorry I have to pictures and not many fun stories.  I'll try to do something interesting before I write my next blog.  Thanks for reading and please pray for my girls, the staff and myself.