Busy Weekend!!

Some of the guys I worked with building the church


I’m really busy this week so this might be a little shorter blog, but last week was the first of 3 consecutive full weeks and then a half week before Christmas break and I get to go home!!!

So last week was a long week to say the least, I think I handed out 10 detetentions. Today I already wrote 6 or 7 afterschool detentions. So the discipline continues to be an issue, I’m just getting much better at handing out punishments.

Friday my buddy Tristan and I played soccer for the last time in the month of December with a bunch of the guys from church. It was a good time, and I ended up scoring 2 goals, which was pretty cool, (my career high in the Honduran professional church outreach league). Then Saturday we went to work and build more of a church in a village about 40 minutes away, the same one we worked on 2 weeks ago. This time we put some rebar in the cinder blocks and carried a lot of dirt up a pretty big hill. I’m learning how to carry really heavy things on my back, which is good, these bags were probably 60 to 70 lbs. depending on how nice the guy who was filling them was. We were fed 4 times though by the people in the village in only about 5 hours of working. So as you can imagine, I was definitely ok with that.

Then my friend Joel, one of the Honduran teachers, invited me and my North American friends Tristan, and Beth to his son’s 2 year old birth-day party. It was so fun!!! Joel and his wife were the most amazing hosts, there was probably 25 little kids and 25 adults all packed in this little room and outside. There was soooo much food, and there was a Pinata, which somehow I ended up busting a huge chunk of it open, and not the younger kids. Then there was pin the bow-tie on the hippo, and finally their was an amazing informal dance contest between 3 of the kids that was probably the highlight of the night. I have never seen a 4th grader shake like that in my life, it was absolutely hilarious.

On Sunday I woke up and all the North Americans went to Valle de Angeles, which is the biggest tourist town in Tegucigalpa. I bought a few things there and then headed back home so I could get ready for the big soccer game!!! It’s playoff time in Honduran Soccer and Olimpia the 4 seed was playing Marathon the 1 seed, Joel and I went and Olimpia won the game 1-0!! It was so fun and it was awesome to see them finally win one, since the other 2 games they tied and lost, that I went to.

So my kids have a lot of tests and quizzes this week, so I’m gonna be really busy, but this weekend, I’m going on a retreat to the mountains with a bunch of the guys I play soccer with. It should be really fun. I’m really looking forward to it. I continue to ask and covet your prayers as I need them so much. Thanks so much for all of the support of those who read this.