We have now arrived at the home we will be staying in for the next 5 weeks. It is called Suyatal, and we are staying with a family who is here to do bible work I think. Their names are Samuel (36), Doris (24), Roxanna, & Andony. Roxanna is 3, Andony is 8 months old – they are adorable children, and are warming up to us already.
Our schedule looks like it will be fairly close to how it is back at EBS with classes and work, although it will be slightly adapted to fit what we have to do accomplish here. We will be doing outreach on Sundays, as well as a childrens program, and the rest of the week will include classes and work to help finish the church here, clean out a dam so we can have a swimming pool, make connections with the people in the village nearby, and a variety of other things. We will be kept fairly busy and it will be a good experience here meeting the people and trying to make their living conditions a little bit better than they are now.
We were told that eight out of ten Hondurans make about $1 per day, which is a very low amount for us to fathom, but they survive. The conditions here seem to be averagely better than what we saw in Belize; for example in Belize they were lucky if they had a cinderblock house, but here they almost all have cinderblock houses, versus the houses made out of a few pieces of wood, a car door, and whatever else they could get their hands on.
Hopefully we will be able to accomplish much in our stay here and will be able to reach out to all in this village. The people are certainly very curious about us, because I'm sure it is not every day that they look out of their doors to see a group of 16 gringos walking down their road...
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