Yesterday was amazing. Me, Karis, Nolan, and Kale went with Marc most of the day all around Tegucigalpa. We went to the Sociedad Biblia (the Bible institute in Tegucigalpa that is a gorgeous PALACE in the downtown) and order 40 boxes of Bibles with some money that Karis and Nolan's church raised. Those are going to be an awesome blessing to the people here. The rest of the day was pretty lazy. We met up with Milton at Chili's and had a great, fun lunch together. That night we made quesadillas in the apartments, and watched Hitch on TV. Fun day.
Today I woke up early to go with Luis to Villa Gracia to work with Terry Reaves' TORCH group. I got Nolan and Karis (the other interns) up to go with us. We took a taxi to the bus stop at the bottom of El Hatillo, and then took a "Rapidito," (translation: a mini-bus that they cram 100 people in for real cheap) to the mission house. The group split off into people going to Hospital Escuela (which I've already done too much this summer), a group building a house (which I didn't feel like today), and a group going to Moaloa near San Miguel. I chose Moaloa with Karis, Nolan and Rachel.
We got there and babysat some of the kids while the moms made food for all of the children in the community at the feeding center at the church (which I helped build the foundation of in 2004, so it was crazy de ja veaux to come back several years later and see how it had all come together). Eventually I got to leave the day care job and work a little in the kitchen. I was just drying the dishes (but there were A LOT of dishes), but I didn't mind; it was just a different kind of service today, I guess. Afterwards, I played a little soccer with a boy named Josue, checked out a cool new day care project they're starting in that community, and then loaded up to leave. Then these cops came and tried to illegally arrest my good friend Josue from Los Pinos over so false accusations about land ownership; it was a fiasco. Eventually it got sorted out, and everything was okay. But still, it was a crazy day.
We got back to the apartments this evening, and Hannah got here not long after us. So me, Hannah, Karis, Nolan, and Milton went and got Little Caesar's pizza and took it back to the apartments to eat it on the roof (a very peaceful dinner: pizza and Coke Zero while enjoying the view of the city at night). It's been a long day; but a God-blessed one nonetheless.
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