The last two days :)

God is always, always in control! He allowed us the last two days, to rest, clean, organize and most importantly pray. God opened the doors for a small group of people to fast for a twenty-four hour period, praying diligently for this country that we have come to love and adore. 

During this time at home, during the crew-few hours, we have sat and talked about religion, God, Jesus, family, friends, governments, Obama and Hillary. :) It has been a growing experience for us as a family and I thank my God for that. However, I am also heavy hearted b/c people are still fighting, people are still hurting and people are still starving.

If you sit back and think for a minute, you start to wonder who  is really getting the "worst deal" out of all of this. Its the little naked man that you see walking the streets everyday, huffing glue to kill the hunger pains and just escape life. It's the little boy, born at 5 month 3 weeks, because his mother was dying of "Swine Flu." The people most effected by all of this is the exact people that God has called me here to serve! "The dying, the cripple, the mental, the unwanted, the unloved-- they are Jesus in disguise." - Mother Teresa 

God is faithful! Here are some pictures that I took, over the last few days :)

Police lined up in front of burger king, right in front of the grocery store Mas por Manos (the grocery store I normally shop at ) Mel, (the former president),is literally a block away in the Brazilian embassy.

Reminds me of people preparing for hurricanes in Florida!!! People waiting for gas!

There is graffiti everywhere!

 more police outside the grocery store

Well... I just don't know where to start...

Lets start from a new beginning! After some much heart tugged, tear jerking months in the states i returned home last thursday! God is so good and has allowed me to come back and serve the people I love so much.

After coming in and seeing "my boys" (and shedding some tears) we talked about what happened while I was gone, only briefly. It was late at night and I needed some sleep. I knew the days ahead where going to be some trying times. The house is still standing after leaving the boys here, alone for a good portion of the time so that was a good start. After some time in the house I noticed little things here and there broken, nothing major or anything to worry about. After I started looking closer I noticed that someone (Eduardo) decided to paint the rocks in the back yard blue. BRIGHT BLUE!!! I noticed that the front door, window, has a nice hole in it and is cracked in several places. Carlos showed me that "bugs" have eaten some of the wires in Jen's desktop computer. (However those bugs sure clean up after-themselves and sure do make nice clean cuts in wires).  God is faithful, however and after much prayer and crying at night, I found the silver lining today after talking with a good friend.

Karen Vaughn, Asst. Director at Casa de Esperanza and her husband Dorian, preacher a Santa Ana Church of Christ, me today to talk about things while I had been gone. Karen informed that about two weeks ago she was sitting in church and in walked these eight or nine thug looking boys to church one sunday morning. These boys live in the Cucui Homes where Carlos, Eduardo and Saul used to live. These boys that came into the church are rough, hard heads. They love to party, drink, into drugs, stealing, beating up people, just a rough bunch. Karen told me that for the past two weeks they have been coming on Sunday mornings, and Dorian, her husband, has been studying with them during the week. 

On my way home, I was telling Carlos about it. He told me, yea I know poppi, I told them a long time ago, that if they wanted to change their lives, they needed to love God. Carlos then told me that a few weeks ago that someone that the group knew as a whole was killed in Tegucigalpa. When they called Carlos to tell him he said that he was upset but decided to take an opportunity for our Saviour and talk about Him! The following Sunday, the boys where at church he said, with tears in his eyes. Today as we went to visit his friends there in the Cucui homes, i was worried. God showed me that I need let Him handle it and not I. Let me just tell you, it made this poppi proud today and with tears in my eyes I thank you all for allowing me the opportunity to help the people of Honduras, especially these three young boys. Times are trying right now, believe me, however God is ALWAYS Faithful!