Thanks

On Thursday Sam, Jen and I celebrated Thanksgiving at Casa de Esperanza. It was probably the best thanksgiving I have ever been to. Marc Tindal had each of the children say what they were thankful for. Starting with the oldest children to the youngest, to brought tears to my eyes hearing that they were thankful for their new families their at Casa and the new friends that they had made.
After lots and lots of food, we went to unload a container that Jen shipped from Nashville. Jen received a phone call at about 4:30is pm. to be at Baxter Institute to unpack the container. Ashley and I were heading to San Pedro to pick up our friend Mike, so we turned around and went to unload the container. After about waiting for an hour or so, the people called and said that they would not be there until 8:00am the next day! Jen had already organized about five other people to be there; WELCOME TO HONDURAS!
Ashley and I went to San Pedro and back on Thursday - early Friday morning. I was at Baxter after only 3 hours of sleep, fully awake and ready to start unpacking. I should have known that the people needed to inspect the contents of the container wouldn't show up until at least 11am. Thus being the case, we didn't finish until 5 pm. unloading and trucking the items to their proper places. But God is good and faithful; he supplied us with more things to serve the people of Honduras!!!

Giving Blood :-)

We went and donated blood! It was a great thing! We were able to try and help save Dr. Gomez's life by donating blood but unfortunately Dr. Gomez passed away late Sunday Night. Here are some pictures of us donating!!! :)

Helping Others...

Well, since I have been able to, I donate blood on a regular basis in the states. Its one of my favorite things to do. After being in Honduras, by law, you are not allowed to give blood for one year. I was always frustrated when the blood mobile would could to the church or school because I would never be able to give.
Yesterday, after getting back into Tegucigalpa, we met up with Gina Larios and her family. Both of her parents are doctors and at her fathers office they had set up a projector to watch the soccer game against Honduras and Mexico. Gina's mom went and talked with a close, family friend in the hospital there.
After the game, we went to visit the man as well. He is losing lots of blood among many other problems. I left the room for a minute to use the bathroom and when I returned Ashley looked at me and asked, "David, want to donate blood for Mr. Gomez " Without even thinking, my automatic response was yes! I was excited about it!! I asked if I was the right blood type. They said that it didn't matter because the blood bank told the family that if they got people to donate, they would give him blood first. So they have recruited the four of us and more are expected to be there! We are all anticipating what and how the process here works!
We are leaving now, to go and donate!!! I'll you know how it goes!!
ps. Honduras won the soccer game last night, therefore, they can now go to Africa to start preparing for the World Cup. The people of Honduras spirits are lifted today.

Made It!!!!!!!!!

Well, after staying up all night Friday and traveling all day Saturday, I finally made it here to Honduras!! I love this country. After arriving in the San Pedro Sula Airport and standing in the passport line for about an hour, I found both of my bags and went to catch the bus. Since I had stood in the passport line for so long I missed the bus to the Grand Centeral Station. So I found a taxi driver to tax me there, which actually cost less then taxing the bus :). After finding the right bus station to go to, I met a lady by the name of Danielle, she was a older Honduran lady, but she spoke perfect english.

As we departed on our four our bus ride to La Esperanza, we got to know eachother very well. I found that she moved to the United States about thirty years ago. She had traveled the world baisicly. She told me about her career as a real estate agent in California, about her children in Ohio and New Mexico. I learned of her family here in Honduras. The best part about talking to her was when we started discussing our religions. She is a Jehova Witness and it was really good to sit and listen to what her beliefes were. It was a total God thing, because we got to discuss my faith as well. For about two hours of the trip we had our bibles open, discussing differences in our faiths. It was very uplifting.

Sunday morning was very excitting for me. Church was supposed to start at 1 pm. At about 1:15 the substatute preacher still wasn´t there. Ashley and Sam both begged me to do a short lesson. Good thing Joe had made me teach his class a few weeks ago. I was already prepared!!! As I got up to start my lesson, I was reading from Ephesians 6:13-15, when the preacher came running in. He was very apologetic about being late, he was picking up about 20 more people for the service. He went ahead and preached and did a very good job.

After being here for only a day and a half, I have already been able to witness and talk about God´s love several times. Thank you, my family, for giving me this oportunity to serve the people of Honduras.