November 13, 2007 - First Day of Outreach

On this day:

We awoke, showered, ate, went to class, worked, ate again, and then departed for our first experience with Honduran outreach. We treated it as if it were a normal day at EBS, following the same basic schedule. We all went out to meet at the house of a man named Alexander, and his wife who does our laundry whose name escapes me as of current, and their children, whereupon we divided ourselves into smaller groups with people who spoke spanish and were teamed with one of the Hondurans to kind of guide us to the places we were supposed to go, etc. We started off and went to the first house. The people are nice and friendly, and even if they are doing something they always lay it aside for a couple minutes of conversation. Patrick was our group leader as such, since he speaks excellent Spanish, and so he made some light conversation with the people, and then casually said that if they needed help with anything, we would be around for the next little while and if they needed something we would be happy to help, and also we were able to give them Bible studies if they were interested. The people would then generally respond with a 'Gracias' and the conversation would end shortly thereafter and on we would forge. It was a nice time, and although people were not nescessarily gung ho for these things, they appreciated it and I think they enjoyed meeting us and learning who we were.
It was an enjoyable experience, and encouraging to see the interest that people here have for such things.

By the way, for those interested, the weather here is fairly nice temperatures not too high, nor too low, but it has been a little wet. Today it has been raining off and on – although it was nice and sunny this afternoon, but the rain has begun again now in earnest, but it is still very nice out, temperature wise. Personally, and biased-ly I so far prefer Belize in all aspects of life to here, but I definitely am enjoying it here as well, so that is not a complaint, merely a preference. :)