Saturday

We're coming up on my first week here. Today marks a week from the day that I actually LEFT home. Tomorrow night will be a week from the day I arrive at Loma de Luz.

Wow-only a week. It feels like I've already taken the full journey and yet there's MORE. More for me to do. More for God to do. How exciting.

This week has gone by pretty fast now that I look back on it.

Today was a struggle for me. It was the first day that I didn't have my work for the day clearly cut out for me. In fact, the first day I didn't HAVE work for the day. At first I got a little worried. I kind of panicked when I realized that I had nothing to do today and the girls wouldn't be around for me to tag along with. But-sure enough- I found things to do.

I finished The Kite Runner. What a great book! It was especially cool to be reading about a different culture and living in a different culture at the same time. Like a double wammy. I really liked all the literary elements that he incorporated and REALLY liked how the ending doesn't make you feel sad and it doesn't make you feel ecstatic, it kind of makes you feel like things just.. go on. But in a good way. If you haven't read it, you should, if you aren't easily effected by some intense dramatic content.

I also did quite a bit of housekeeping today. Washed my sheets, made breakfast, tried to fix my coffee pot, scrubbed, wiped, etc.

One of the best parts of my "day of rest"- My Sabbath. My Saturday. - was the time I had to study some Spanish, Old Testament, and Christian Beliefs. I brought two spanish textbooks with me and two Bible textbooks (one OT survey & the other a Handbook of Christian Beliefs). So, I've been doing a lot of independent studies with those books and today I got to really invest a good chunk of time to all of them. I read the story of Noah, as well, always a classic. I think it shows two aspects of God that are foundational, complimentary, and incredibly moving. That is, His desire to see righteousness in His people and His desire to preserve those after His heart.

After I did some studying, I took a walk up the hill a little bit to a cluster of missionary houses. I took several pictures on the way that you can take a look at on Facebook. It was a nice chance to take in some of the beauty that I'm now living in. When I got home the girls invited me to go meet them down at the beach. I was going to but my next-door neighbor (a young pediatric nurse) Joelle got in and wanted to make pizza so I thought it probably would be a good time to get to know her and stuff. We had a lot of fun, making pizza in Honduras is quite the adventure. The ingredients are no problem but finding a stove to cook it in, that's the biggest obstacle.

But, in the end, we were successful! We made pizza and shared it with some of the Honduran staff members that live on the other side of staff housing.

So-God really blessed me with a great day to have some alone time with Him and have some great fellowship.

I look forward to the adventures tomorrow brings!