a VERY exciting day

Me and Sandy (one of the missionaries here in Guaimaca) are the only Gringos here this week. Today I decided to help one of the nurses, Caralina, in the hopital today. Her rotation today was mainly giving shots to patients. So I know now how and where to give you a shot in the butt and in the vein of your arm. I was telling her how I wanted to see a baby born before I left this summer and not even an hour later a pregnant lady walked in!!! She was in labor for about an hour or so. And yes, I got to witness the mircale of life. It was the most beautiful (but somewhat disgusting) thing I have ever seen. At one point I got a little nauseus and had to look away. I stood right by Caralina and Dr Ana and watched as the baby was being born. I will not go into detail..... but it was such an amazing and beautiful thing. Caralina was laughing at me because I cried haha. All the woman here have there babies naturally.... and apparently this was a big baby. I helped Caralina clean and bathe the baby :)


On another note, I'm sure a lot of you have heard about the crazy politcal problems that have been going on down here. I am safe, so no worries.
Early yesterday morning, the president of Honduras was arrested and taken out of his home (apparently still in his pajamas) by the military and armed forces. He was trying to change the consitution (pretty much so he could be in office for another term). Sunday was supposed to be the day that citizens voted for this change of the consitution but it never happened. I think somebody told me he is in Costa Rica or Guatemala.
Yesterday, we had to drive to Teguc to take the group to the airport. We left super early because we thought traffic would be rediculous and that protestors would be everywhere... but it was the complete opposite. I have never seen Teguc so calm and empty. There was hardly anybody driving around. The buses are normally packed with people but there were only a few on them. The only cars that were out were lined up by the gas stations waiting for gas. I guess everybody was scared so they stayed inside.

Today has been by far the best day!!

This morning, 6 of us went to Los Hobos to evangalize door to door. We usually get translators to talk and Sam. But.... we couldn't find any translators this morning because it was last minute. So I was expected to translate. We split up into 2 groups and the people in my group know absolutely NO english. This was the first time I had ever translated by myself and talked to people that I did not know. I was terrified. At the first house we stopped at, we talked to a girl that was 14. This was definitely way out of my comfort zone and I'm not very confident in my spanish speaking/listening with native speakers. God showed me that I could do it and gave me the confidence I needed. At times it was hard to understand them (ie: sluring of words, slang, and i've noticed that a full set of teeth makes it easier to understand what they're saying). 2 of the places we stopped, the people weren't very open and I wasn't sure if they understood what I was talking about but the last house we stopped at was reassuring. This lady was kind and spoke back and told us a little about her faith.

After lunch we went to a village reeeeeeeally far up in the mountains, I'm talking like FAR. We drove over a few rivers and through lots of woods. I have honestly never experienced anything like this before. The people that lived there literally lived off of the land. I'm pretty sure all of them farmed. We met at one house which is where they have their church services. The kids sang songs for us. They said that some of them walk 1 to 2 hours to get there (this is how far apart some of the houses and communities in the village are). It was so amazing to me that these people walked so far to worship. We were literally in the sticks. I went with Pastor Mingo to one house..... we walked up and down up and down, over a creek up some more and up some more and up some more.... the walking path was about a foot wide. We finally reached the house to visit with the family. And apparently the path would lead to another community further up the mountain. I was just in awe that these roads and paths kept going with literally no end. More houses and communites.

I can't even express the thoughts and feelings that were going through my mind. I had no idea that communities this far away (and almost isolated) existed. They had 3 liter coke bottles that they filled with water from the river to drink. I'd say that 99% of the food they ate they cultivated themselves. It is so amazing that we go to these places miles from civilization and they know, love and worship God. And they walk 2 hours up and down the mountain sides to get to the place of worship.

I don't think words or pictures could describe this experience today. I would say more but all that hill climbing has absolutely exhausted me

ok

Lupe is doing ok. They drove him to the hospital in Tegucigalpa last night and he had surgery this morning. They said he will be in the hospital for the next few days. He's not really sure who the 2 guys were but said he recognized them.

sorry it's been awhile

Sorry it's been a few weeks since I've updated anything, I've just been busy and there has been some internet issues.

Well... I am still having fun and loving every minute!! Since I've last updated, I have gone on a few medical brigades in some villages in the mountains. While the doctors are doing their doctor stuff, I do what I do best... PLAY!! Of course the kids are shy at first but then a good game of frisbee gets going. There's this game they like to play called "quitala" and you have to try to keep the frisbee away from whoever is it. I really didn't want to leave when it was time to go, and they didn't want us to leave either. We left a jump rope for them to keep at the school and they got soooooo excited. As I was leaving one of girls gave me her bracelet. I wish sooo much that we could go back and see them again.

A baby was born last night and nobody woke me up!!! But next time I will be awake!

Sam just told me that Lupe (the guy that works on our internet and is a friend of Sandy and Joann's) just got shot twice. One grazed the top of his shoulder and the other hit the left side of his chest. Apparently these guys were robbing 2 girls and he tried to help them. They are currently driving him to Teguc which is about 2 hours from here. There isn't much they can do here for that so they are taking him to the hospital in Teguc. Please keep him in your prayers and I will update as soon as I know more details.