Wow, it's almost time to go home, it's crazy how fast time has gone by here, and already I'm beginning to think and pray about if I should come back next year. I would really appreciate any prayers to this regard as well. As I'm pretty confused about it right now.
So school is going pretty well, the high school kids are going to put on a 2 hour Christmas program, so they are all using class time to rehearse, so that's pretty frustrating, and this quarter is shortened anyway, so it's pretty hard to get alot of grades in and cover alot of material. Last week they had a class period every single day, for every class in which a few police women talked and warned about the gangs in the city. Apparently there are alot of gangs here, about 125,000 in the country, and most in Tegucigalpa I think. The biggest gang, "dieziocho" was named after a street in L.A. So that was more class missed, but the Lord is definitely in control, and he continues to work despite what I want to do, or have the opportunity to do.
This weekend I met to go camping at the church at around 5:30, but being on Honduran time, we eventually left at around 7:30, so Tristan and I played to volleyball/basketball for a while with some of our students who were there. We started driving up the mountain at around 8 and got to this spot up on top of a mountain to our camping spot. We had to park at someone's house and then walk up a ways to our camping spot, because the road was too steep. It was of course dark out by then, and one of leaders who was with us "Joel" warned us that there were some guys up ahead who were smoking marijuana and could have weapons and guns. So I was a little on edge, and only a few people had flashlights out of everyone. I was one of the first people in front and then all of the sudden I heard about 5-10 people run into our crowd, everyone was shouting and Joel went into the crowd, he was yelling it's spanish at them. And there didn't seem to be any lights shining on the people at that time. Then someone shined their light and the intruders and they ended up being people from another car who were camping with us, and the whole thing was a practical joke to scare the gringos. And I have to admit, they definitely got me.
Then we set up camp and had some fried rice and talked for a while to other people. Then some of the leaders got up and shared for a while, little sermons, words of encouragement or their testimonies. It was a pretty charismatic night, a bunch of people got slain in the spirit. While I had alot of time to pray for people there as well as other people who I normally pray for outside of Honduras. Finally after all the talks and charismatic experiences for others, we ended at around 3 AM, and I had a long day at school, and all of it was in Spanish, so I was having a really hard time understanding and concentrating. After that we hadn't even roasted marshmallows yet. So we did that and went to bed.
We woke up at around 7:30-8:00 and I woke up to everybody laughing. Hondurans really know how to have a good time. They were just sitting their telling jokes for about an hours. Everyone was constantly cracking up. Then we had a pinata for one of the leader's birthday's (Raul). And then we hiked up about 10 minutes up the mountain to play on a really ghetto field. It was really fun though, because the field was so bad that everyone was on a more equal skill level, because no one had control of the ball. After about 15 minutes on of our guys was talking to some people nearby, (there was houses along the field) and apparently someone had died in one of the houses or was dead inside, something like that and we were making too much noise. So we left and hiked with half of our group for about a half hour down the mountain, actually it was partially through a creek and partially through some woods.
One part of the trail involved ducking under this huge bee nest. I was just walking and then the guy in front of me yelled, "abajo" and I knew I had to duck, but I didn't know why? Then I saw it about a foot in front of my face, bees all over the nest, swarming. So I quickly backed up and warned the guy behind me. Then I waited to time my run when the bees weren't flying around and I ran under and made it safely. Unfortunately, when I ran all the bees started flying around and stung the guy behind me, but he was ok, he just had a really swollen finger. We finally got to the water hole with a two level little waterfall, and we went in, most kids didn't even have their swimming trunks so they just swam in their underwear. The water was soooooooooooo cold. Reminded me of a polar bear swim I once had in Lake Michigan.
We hiked back another way, and walked through a huge farm with banana trees all up and down the mountain, it was absolutely beautiful. We had lunch and cooked a bunch of meat. And then headed back down the mountain and back to church.
Today I woke up sick, so I'm hoping to get over it quickly, we will see. And this week we have 2 half days, thurs. and fri. next week we have 2 half days tues. and weds. And I'm gonna be leading a devotional on wednesday for all of the teachers, so that should be fun.
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