November 10, 2007 - Sabbath

On this first Sabbath we were told to be up early because breakfast would be at 7 and we would leave at 7:45, so that is what we did, only to wake up to a house with no water, therefore no showers. We were all in a slightly greasy state and were in need of showers, but that seemed a little bit impossible. Eventually though, the problem was resolved and all managed to become clean, just in time for 7:45.

We began to walk to the place where the bus was scheduled to pick us up, but since it was not there yet we decided to continue walking down the driveway towards the road. We arrived at the end of the road at about 8:10, still with no bus in sight, so we waited. And waited. And many school buses drove by, but none ended up being our school bus, or at least not for a long time. Around 9:00 he finally came, jolly as ever, and quite unconcerned about how late he was.
We drove for some time to go to the church that Antoinette (our student from Honduras) goes to along with her family, located in Tegucigalpa. The building turned out to be an enormous and beautiful structure which was not simply a church but was rather a bible institute where they print bibles, or something to that effect. They have been renting one room out of this enormous building for their church for a while, and it is quite nice. Their church service was a little backwards, and they have the sermon first then Sabbath school; Eli had the sermon, which was very good, and we got to hear of some of his experiences in the airport after we had left him, and how he had been blessed from the experience. Following that we all introduced ourselves, who we were, where we came from, etc., and since that ate up some time of Sabbath school they skipped it and just had a short testimony by Jose's father.

After church we were treated with a potluck lunch wherein they told us to go sit down and then proceeded to serve us, which was quite abnormal, and a little interesting because you could not pick what you wanted, but the food was good nonetheless so it mattered not. Then we were told we were going to go to this place called The Valley Of Angels, about an hour away from the church, and proceeded on our way in the bus, but we never actually got there due to other detours that we went on, going to see Jose's university, the second largest basillica in central america which was most impressive, and other various tours. Then we went back to the church and collected a couple of other people, and went to one family's house for vespers and supper, which consisted of these amazing tortillas, papaya chips, and lemongrass tea. (Mom: I'm growing a little patch of lemongrass when I come home, k?? It makes real good tea!) The people were lovely and were very hospitable to do all of this for us on this day, and it was a very nice time.
Tomorrow we are going to the other mission station that we will be staying at for the rest of the time, or most of the rest of the time at least, so we have a little bit of an early morning, sooo sleep calls me very strongly, since in Norway it is...4:30 in the morning, and jet lag is apparant in my life right now...

Buenos Noches.

PS the word of the day is Lamado which means Beloved.