Internet stick means an update .....Yippeee

Hey Y'all what's everyone been up too? I know yet again it's been a long time since I have updated this thing.... I have been pretty busy, with school, adjusting to things here again, sickness and lots of it, and yes unfortunately spiders, even a scorpion (in my room...). First off I guess I should say school's going goood. I mainly teach English to the kindergarten class. I have a bag full of things for them to learn the names of plus I work with the alphabet, numbers, and things I draw on the board for them . Its great, they seem to be learning lots. I have had some of the parents come in saying they go home and tell them-- mommy or daddy this is... in English....which makes me feel happy and proud of my students. Plus it teaches the parents who don't know any English some words too. Second thing I have been up too is being sick. God is helping me cope but it's definitely been hard. I have had 2 sinus infections which are very abnormal for me, I never get them in the states. I have had "amoebas", which for those who may not know are parasites that cause lots of problems and hurt very badly. I am still dealing with stomach issues that right now I ain't sure whats wrong, but I know God will help me through it all. The doctor even said its probably a good thing to be getting sick a little to get used to things here in the food, and water, but I just think at the time I'm missing school (which I hate to do) and this stinks cause it hurts like crazy! My doc at home says because of the accident I was in before coming back to Honduras, my immune system is very low which happens to mean for me, I get just about everything that enters my system, instead of my body fighting it off.... Fun huh? but I'm doing alright..... just got to rely on God to get me through and help me till I feel better! which i know He will. I have also dealt with a few nasty creepy things here since I have been back. Of course Spiders.... which doesn't make my day or night, that's for sure :( thankfully they have mostly been in our bathroom. But the other day for the first time here in Honduras I had a scorpion. He was just a little thing but scared me and my roommates because he was a quick fast little booger. We caught him under a cup , snapped a lot of pics of him then my roommate stomped him to death. Glad she was here cause I didn't want to kill him I was chicken.....lol....anyways it's going alright, I definitely missss home more then I can say. My family, friends, and church , you guys are very important to me, and I think of you all often and pray for you as well. I missss you guys all so much and love you bunches too!!!! I am trying to think of what I am forgetting to tell you about school, being sick, the pesky critters, oh I remember-- we had a group here from Puerto Rico that was awesome~!!! I made some very wonderful friends. They we here to help out doing church events, and working with the children. They were amazing!!!! In fact they want me to go to Puerto Rico to visit but I gotta wait on God's timing and money before I can get the chance to do that. But hopefully I'll get to, someday in the future. Well I'm not sure what I'm leaving out but I'm sure after I end this I'll remember something else so until next time remember I love you alot and so does God! God Bless you all!

My unexpected, but blessed time home...

Hey everyone, hope you all are doing good. I know its been forever since i have updated this thing, but no i haven't forgotten too, just haven't really been up for doing it lately...Been pretty busy. First as most of you know I am in the states right now, (have been since Jan.) I received news last Christmas that my grandfather had a brain tumor and it wasn't looking like it would turn out to be a good outcome, so I decided to fly home with my parents who were visiting me at the time in Honduras. I had a good visit with my grandfather, and that night went to my aunt's house where we were staying that weekend, and decided to have some fun! Well it was fun for a little, here's why.. We decided to go "snow boating" pretty much sledding in a flat bottom boat. Sounds fun huh? It was till we hit a rock and went flying. I knew we were in trouble heading down a huge hill but never saw the rock we hit, i went to jump out and actually got my leg caught due to it being held onto without my knowledge, so what happen was, i flew out of the boat, flew back in it landing on my left side of my back and flew back out and landed on my cousin, which is probably a good thing or else I'd prob. have hit the tree beside us. I got pretty banged up. I hurt my back and twisted things, bruised things all the way to my lungs (which they thought i punctured but thank God i didn't) and the doctor actually thinks i ripped stuff but there wasn't much he could do for me.. i recieved severe wiplash to my neck and i also hurt my arm so bad that i couldn't move it hardly at all, last appointment the doc said i had 60% movement in it, and that id have to stay here another 6 weeks so i have been home since January due to my accident. I can report I'm doing much better, still have lots of swelling and pain but its getting there. I am hoping i will be able to head back to Honduras in May my next doc. appt is April 28th so ill be working my arm, praying and hoping I get the "OK" from him to go back. I can't wait , I really misss Honduras, and my kiddos. Plus school started in Feb. and i was supposed to be the kindergarten teacher's helper or assistant , so I have missed everyday of school so far, which reallly stinks. Plus i have now been home longer then I have been at this new organization (Reachout Orphanage, Proyecto Alcance). But I know God had a reason for me to be home, and one has been realized I know without a doubt God wanted me home for my grandfather, we were able to go visit him and be with him , and as sad as it is to say he passed away, It's kinda weird for me to say this but as sad as it is; it's also peaceful and joyous for me to because I know he's out of pain now. I know that God wanted and gave me the chance to be home with my family for this important time in our lives, when we needed to be together. So its been busy busy busy here for me, and its been goood and bad but God has been with me and my family through everything ,which I'm soo thankful for. On a goood note I have been able to attend 2 very special weddings since i have been home, one of our family friends more family then friends...lol...Kelly and Bryan got married ,as well as I was able even though i was hurt to participate and be the maid of honor for one of my kiddos i taught in Honduras. She moved to the states to marry her one true love who i knew from Honduras because him and his family were missionaries there too. So it was awesome to be with Nilsy and Caleb on their special day. I am looking forward to whatever God has in my future, when i get back to Honduras, I can't wait to see the kids, get into helping out at the school, and church, and just living for God the best I can. It's been a crazy 4 months home, but even through the bad i have felt very blessed for this time home with my parents, friends, and family. I love you all and missss you terribly when I'm gone but God works everything out for a reason and helps out with everything i go through on a daily basis. Life isn't always easy, but remember the old saying when life gives you lemons... make a lot of lemonade and remember God made the lemons, and gave you them to eat/drink for a reason so drink it all in and live life for HIM and it will all work out for the best with Him by your side. Love you all!!!!Sorry for such a long blog this time but i wanted to give you guys a full update on everything... Talk to you again later...God Bless!!!!!

Life here in La Masica....

Hi everyone,
It's been a little bit since i wrote a blog , so I wanted to let you know what all was going on with me , and how I am doing. First things here are going alright. It has been difficult at times, but God has helped me through everything and things here are day to day getting better. I am getting used to how things are done here, and getting to know the children more and more everyday. There isn't school right now so things here have been kind of slower then normal. I have been helping do chores washing dishes, cleaning the kids rooms, sweeping, moping, stuff like that around the orphanage, then other things like going to church everyday, tutoring the children, and filling my free time especially at night with movies, or sleep, or sometimes getting to go to La Ceiba to do shopping for groceries, clothes, and things. I'm thinking things are going to pick up a lot around here with school starting in February. Then we'll get up at 5am go to school, come home, eat lunch, do homework, get ready for church, come home , and go to bed kind a routine.... I am excited to see how things will work out, I think I will be helping out the kindergarten class since I don't know enough spanish to teach all by myself. So I can't wait to see the kids in our class, and what all I'll be doing at the school to help out. I will possible be teaching a tiny bit of english too , from what Dialis said to me the other day. Dialis is the founder with her husband David. I will make sure I update you all when I got more information (sometime in Feb. ) about life here, school ,church things, ect... But for now I'm doing good and just going with the flow of things here. I missssssss you all and hope you 're all doing great whenever you are and whatever you are doing in your lives.
PS. I do have to tell ya's 1 thing quick: My world was shattered the other day to know there's no place in Honduras without BIG GIANT SPIDERS.... There was one hanging over my bathroom door, so nope didn't escape them when i left Tegucigalpa unfortunately. :( It was sooo not funny, but at least that's the only one i have seen so far. God willing I will not see another. :)Well gotta go for now, take care,, and God Bless!!!

My Big Adventure and News…

Hey everybody, wanted to tell you about some very big news with me. I have moved to a whole other part of Honduras, about 8 hours from Tegucigalpa, called La Masica. I am working with Reachout Orphanage or (Proyecto Alcanse) So I am no longer with WGO. I enjoyed my time greatly with World Gospel Outreach, however I felt God calling me away to another ministry and to more children here in Honduras, so I’m following His lead for my life. I am very very excited about this new step here. I had wonderful friends drive me here which was an adventure in itself since my car was packed to the roof with things on the roof too...lol…. but we got here safe and sound. I am enjoying my time here a lot. I can’t tell you how long I'll be here because they don’t do contracts or anything, its until God calls me elsewhere or tells me time to come home or whatever else He may throw my way. We have 17 children here, plus tons of the community children. I live here with the children, plus they have two churches that we attend everyday other then Thursday. Its very neat because they do prayer night, youth night, regular church nights… ect… We are with the kids constantly, so I am very happy about that. We also have a school in the next town over, about 6 miles away that our children plus that communities kids go to. Its sooo beautiful I do missssss living in the mountains but the main reason for that is that it is SOOOOO HOT here, but I’m adjusting , drinking lots of water and bought a fan which is one of my best friends here…lol….But yes we have 16 girls and 1 boy plus some female helpers here , myself, Tim (a north American guy) and the founders David and Dialis. I haven’t yet got to meet her because she is in the states right now, but I can't wait that will happen sometime within the next week. But things are great here. New adventures everyday, learning to get used to the heat, eating new things, working with the kids, and making new and wonderful friends. Just so you know I do not have my own internet so I will not be on very much at all, but Ill try to update my blog as much as I possibly can. But as for facebook, and myspace and email, my mom will be helping me by telling me my emails and things on the other sites so if you have news for me or want to email please do so, I will get to it and respond back as soon as I can. I won't get on often but know I think of you all bunches and misss you all tons!!! I wanted to share my big news with you , and ask you to please remember to keep me in your prayers as I am starting to adjust here, to a new place and new people…and working on my Spanish, which is a BIGGGGG PRAYER for me. As well as just walking with God and trusting Him in all that I do here in Honduras and my everyday life! Well got to go for now, Love you all and talk to you again sooon! God Bless!!!

People go running... and tear gas goes a flying...

So i wanted to tell you all about my adventure, kinda scary, kinda crazy, but an adventure still the same...I thank God for his protection and that He got us out when and where we needed to....
So here it is: i had to go get my trespaso finshed and paid for (the paperwork to put my car in my name) and get my car appraised and inspected to get insurance (which is still in process) so I asked one of the other missionaries here, as well as one of the brigade cordinators wife, to come along... so we could get those things done, have lunch together, and do whatever other things we needed to get done in the city together... the day was going good, got my appraisal done and heading for my trespaso when we see tons of traffic and what was causing it... a Protest, or demoonstration, (in spanish a manifestion) all these people protesting for Mel... i had time to make the comment to the 2 with me saying "man where is my camera" i have been wanting to get pics but never have my camera when i need it" about that time i look up and we were all blown away, because all you could see is 100's of people running right at us...then i realized why, TEAR GAS!!!! i saw the cans go flying and the gas start pouring out, I looked at Rachel who was driving and said we gotta get out of here thats tear gas coming at us ...God put us right where he wanted us to be for safety, cause where no one else could move car wise, we had no curb beside us and an open space enough for rachel to flip my car around and speed out of there...I was sooo relived to know how close we came to tear gas and scared , crazy people....so where heading over this bridge still getting away from all the demonstrators and tear gas, when we all thought we were out of it i rolled down my window cause we needed air, my a/c doesnt work , it was extremly hot, and due to all the adrenaline flowing through us we felt like we were gonna pass out due to the heat... right after i rollled my window down i relaized , that was a BIG mistake cause in came some of the tear gas....NOT FUN! it wasnt nearly as bad as it could have been cause i immediately rolled the windows up- but enough in the car to make our faces /eyes burn pretty badly....and scare me more then anything cause i know tear gas is horrible and painful, We went to one of the hardware stores to get out of the car for a little, hide from the protesters/traffic and make some phone calls, oh and use the bathroom . All i had to wipe off my face with was an antibacterial wipe which i had no clue if it would make things worse or better, but i burned so i had to try it... it helped a tad, i called momma to tell her and calm down some , and then afterwards we checked to see if there were protesters outside, we didnt see anymore so we decided we neeeded to go grab lunch, and finish up what we started off to do, since we were safe. Once i got home and was able to wash my face with cool water, the burning stopped. I was sooo thankful and happy God kept us safe and got us back to the mission house in 1 piece... It could have been so much worse, we saw people running, passing out, carring babies /kids that were crying or coughing due to the gas, all kinds of things . But all i can think of was even though we got some of the gas, we had a perfect place to turn around quick, a place to go into to make calls and hide, and a safe rest of the day in the city and back up the mountain.... As scary as it was and could have been more, God was there in the middle of it, protecting us all the way... It made for a very exciting, scary, and adventurous day in the city by far..And I got my trespaso , appraisal, and inspection done. YEAHHHHH! Now all i need is the insurance paperwork and everything for my car will be done completly (i hope...lol) anyways didnt want this to scare you, im perfectly safe, but I wanted to tell you of my adventures, and remind you to please keep praying for Honduras, they are in turmoil right now due to Mel...but just like God protecting us I know through prayers God can turn this country around too and get them out of this mess, but it's going to take time and lots of prayers. Well that was my crazy, fun , scary, adventure story! Hope everyone is doing great! Let me know what you thought of my story, exciting huh? well Love and misss you all. God Bless!

Mel's Back!!!

Just wanted to inform everyone that the "ousted" ex-president Mel has returned to Honduras and is hiding out in the Brazilian embassy. This has caused riots , demonstrations, and curfews for all of us here in Honduras- however I wanted to reassure everbody I as well as the other missionaries with WGO are doing fine. We are far way enough from the city that were out of harms way, and out of the demonstrations. I do ask for pray for Honduras as a country, because this could get bad, Mel is causing a lot of problems between the Hondurans and sparking anger and rebellion. Which is exactly what he wants to do. Also we have been having like in home arrest kinda curfews , where we are not allowed to leave our houses, which in a way keeps most safe, but cuases problems for those who have to sell tortillas or whatever else to live, or eat that day. Today they actually lifted the curfew from 10am to 4pm so that people could go grocery shopping to be able to eat and get supplies, but its been rough for most which I am sure has caused aggravation and anger for some which in turn causes problems itself. This country needs as much prayer as we can get. Pray that they can capture Mel and end this safely and quickly. Pray that no other countries try to get involved and cause this problem to worsen. Also for all the people of this country in general. For the hunger/homeless, for the unsaved to find Christ, and for all the otehr issues people daily have to live with.(nasty water, sickeness, abuse, ect...)
I thought it was nessecary to inform you all on what is going on and to let you know I am doing perfectly fine, safe and sound, and to ask you all to please pray with me for everythign I have discussed. I love and missssss you all back home, and want to thank you for your prayers! God Bless !!!! (I will try to update on the situation here when i can so just keep checking back periodically...I also try to inform my parents with any new information, so if you have questions that aren't answered here- they may be able to answer them...)
-lots of love and prayers-

It's been awhile...

Hey everybody, sorry its been awhile, I've have been keeping busy since i have been back ...I don't have much to tell about , so I figured I'd just let you all know what all I have been doing and how I am doing . First I am doing good. I recently hurt my ankle a few weeks ago but it seeme to be healing slowly, but surely. Hopefully in the next few weeks I'll have no more pain at all in my ankle and it'll be comepltely healed up. I have been doing several things here at the mission house, since I have been back from furlough. I worked on two different brigades. Which was awesome! I met and worked with wonderful people that I will never forget, Plus got to work with some friends of mine who came which was a great and fun experience :) I also have went up to the new mission house with another staff memeber here and we put up installation. It was something different I hadn't done before and very itchy, but I was glad to be able to help as much as possible. I have been doing odds and ends around here since then , I have worked on organizing files for when we move to the new mission house, destroying old files, helping go through donations, and learning to work on excel, which is very new for me.... So overall I am staying pretty busy, but having a good time serving where I can.
I do have a prayer request for you . I would like to ask you all to be praying for me and with me, about some decions I need to make. I dont want to go into alot of detail just yet, but I will after lots of prayers and descion making on my part. I know God has a plan and a purpose, and that prayer will be the best and only way to figure out what I need to be doing and what God has in store for me :)
I reallly misss you all back home, and pray and hope that everything is going good for you all! I do want to remind you all that if theres anything you need me to pray for you can email me and let me know. God answers prayer and prayer works. Also keep in touch with me whenever you can I enjoy reading your emails and being able to communicate with you all. As i will try my best to do the same.
Well i think that's about it right now. Just wanted to give you an update on things here in Honduras. Dios Te Bendiga (God Bless )!!!!
Talk to You Again Soooooon!