Let the fun begin!

So the first day was quite eventful, not so much for us as for our group leader, Terry Reeves, but I'll get to that in a second.  Our flight landed about 11:15 local time and the second plane with our people on it landed about 12:30.  Flying down here is leaving home and going home all in the same day.  We leave family and friends at home which sucks but we land here and it's just like landing at home.  You know that you're going to get to see all the great people and friends that you've made over the years and it feels like home.  Well after we ate lunch we headed straight to work at the warehouse where we store all of our supplies.  We had two containers full of hundreds and hundreds of boxes delivered a few weeks ago with clothes, shoes, meds, hygiene packs, toys, and other stuff to sort through.  So we started right away opening boxes and sorting through things.  There's really not much to tell about it, it's a long boring thing to do but it has to be done.  Afterwards we made it up to the mission house and had a fantastic meal for dinner, had a few things to take care of then I was off to bed.

The second day was like the first minus the plane ride.  We got up and had breakfast and I led a quick devo before we loaded the buses and went back to the warehouse for a full day of sorting.  We were able to go through most of the boxes, like 90% of them, and get them broken down so that when we are back in Teguc next week we will know exactly what is in each box so we can grab them and take them where they are needed.  We got back to the mission house and had another devo by Terry since he was now here, story coming shortly, and a meeting about our plans for Thursday and then it was off to bed. 

So the American airlines flight was delayed by an hour on Tuesday and those of us who flew in earlier on Delta were wondering what the hold up could have been.  After a bit of extreme speculation the American flight landed and we were able to get a great story which Terry retold when he arrived Wednesday (he was supposed to be here Tuesday but here's why he wasn't)  Apparently somewhere in the Miami airport he was either pick-pocketed or his passport fell out of his pocket.  So when he went to get on the plane he realized his passport wasn't in his pocket.  So obviously they wouldn't let him on the plane and he had to sit and watch his mission team leave without him.  Now if any of you have a passport you know how long it takes to get one, a few weeks at minimum.  So to make a long story short he goes to the government agency in Miami who issues passports and then they send him to another place who then sends him back to the passport place where he then waits for over an hr until he finally talks to someone who can help him who tells him that they close at 3pm, and it's 3:15, but the guy listens to Terry anyways as he tells his story and the guy does something he says he has never done before and grants Terry a passport on the same day as he applied to the cheers of other people in the lounge/waiting room.  So Terry got a new passport on Tuesday and got a flight for Wednesday and is now here and all is good.  He now has another great story to tell people.  We seemed to manage pretty well without him though.

Today the real fun has started.  We picked up 45 people at the airport today and after lunch loaded them on a bus and drove 5 hours from Teguc to a town to the North East called Catacamas.  We made it here about 7 and are now in our rooms for the night.  It seems like a pretty nice place but I really have no idea.  It was a long day of traveling and there are 45 people that felt like the interns did Tuesday, worn out and ready for bed. 

The group of interns that I'll be part of seems to be another great team.  Some of us new each other before we landed Tuesday but just a couple of days into this trip and we all seem to mesh really well.  One of the great things about these trips is that you are always going to meet some really amazing people and it seems like the intern team is full of amazing people.  I'm really excited to be working with them for the next few weeks.  It's going to be a blast.  We are also going to be traveling to new areas which I always love.  Going back to places you've been is great because you build relationships with people and see the development of areas but I'm always excited to see new places like Catacamas and a new area in Choluteca that we'll be going to in a few weeks.  New people and new places always leads to exciting things.  Back home it sometimes gets hard to see how God works in peoples lives and in different situations because there is so much stuff to distract us and so many things to fill our minds with doubt but when you really focus and look for ways in which God is working everyday in every situation it's amazing what you see.  Just in the few days we've been here we've had a few hiccups but every time something unexpected happens it seems we have someone watching over us to guide us out of trouble and onto the path He has for us.  After all, this is His mission and He is in control.  We may make plans but God is the one who guides us to the places and people who need the help.  I re-named the blog in case you didn't realize it.  We have come to Honduras this summer to build houses, to give away food, to give out clothes, to have a few VBS's,  to have medical clinics and many many more things.  We have brought our bodies to serve, our minds to teach with the hope that through us God will pierce their hearts to the core.  As Christians we should strive to put ourselves into positions to let God work through us.  I think that no matter who you are or where you are, every person deserves the opportunity to hear about a God who loves them and a savior who died for them.  Over the next few weeks we'll have the opportunity to do that here in Honduras and I ask that you pray that in all the things we do that God would be glorified and hearts will be changed and souls will be saved.