Honduras Day 4

I wrote about food distrubution in my last blog, and today I'll try to fill you in on what the whole day is like.


-5:40 am we leave the hotel to walk to the mission house
-5:50 am is a devotion time lead by a student
-6-7 am is spent eating breakfast and packing a lunch
-7:00 We head to a warehouse that stores the corn and beans
-Loading up the trucks (bags weigh between 50 and 100 lbs.)
-Driving to a village
-Registration, distrubution, Bible story, and playing games at the village
-Drive back to the warehouse to eat lunch and load up the trucks again
-Driving to a second village (none of these villages are easy to get to in case you were wondering)
-Registration, distrubution, Bible story, and playing games at the village
-Driving back to the hotel
-Rest
-Dinner
-Team meeting
-Free time, but mostly just bedtime

While all the food stuff is going on, we also spend time with the children. Each one of our teenagers has been assigned to learn a story from the Bible. The Chorti culture learn a great deal through story telling. It is important each teenager tells his or her story well because the children will pass on the story to others in their village. After the story, each child gets a coloring sheet that goes along with the story. This a good reminder of the story, and it is also a way to review the story. The Chorti really love to color. I've been amazed at how long the children and sometimes adults will color. It's funny how sometimes the kids will fight over the black crayons because they all want to color the hair black.

After the story or sometimes before the story, we play games. The boys love throwing a tennis ball around. The girls tend to like jump roping better. Today we got out a parchute to play with, and it was a big hit. The smiles on the children's faces when they played with the colorful parchute was priceless. All the kids like playing soccer too!

These days are long and tiring and some of the best days ever! It is a lot of fun, and we are all very grateful for the opportunity to come to Honduras. Each village has been different, but they are all a very gentle people. It's been an honor to meet the Chorti!