finally an update... sorry it took so long.

it is safe to say that i haven't updated in a while. i'm sorry for that. we have been busy here and we moved homes for a few days and our internet isn't the best and so on.. but here is a little update on life in honduras. 

we went to watch honduras play mexico in the semi finals of the gold cup. unfortunately honduras and the us lost to mexico. it was a bit of a bummer. 

we also got to go to the national honduras fútbol stadium... then yesterday sarah, luis and i met the coach of the national team. so so SO COOL.

last week we had a team come in from texas. it was a youth group and they worked at different schools in comayagüela in the mornings so we weren't with them. but in the afternoon we worked alongside them at casitas kennedy. they were really good with the kids. caitlin, karla and i helped the group working with the older girls. it was great to just sit with them. talk to them, let them help me with my pronunciation, and teach them how to make bracelets. this is the first week we really got to spend time with the older girls. this reminded me of my time last summer at casitas. i am already having so many emotions. i cannot express in words how excited i am to see those girls i built a relationship with last summer but thinking of those girls makes me sad to leave the people i have built relationships with here. i am hoping that we get to spend more time with the older girls over the next two weeks. 

over the course of the past three weeks, the volunteers we teach english to are not just our "students" anymore but they have become our friends!!! i have grown to love everyone at the ctc so much. especially the head rachel (she's the most precious person you will ever meet) they have continued to teach me so much. in getting to know them, i have learned their favorite colors, what they like to do, how talented they are and so much more. there are so many of them with amazing AMAZING talents. a lot of them play musical instruments and sing. maurico, daniel, christian, ernesto, jason, shari, nelson, david and i am sure i forgot some all play instruments (more than one in most cases). betzabe drew me a picture and gave it to me today and it was so pretty. daniel also draws. he is amazingly talented!! if you know me at all you know i love love love literature and poetry. nelson writes. he writes short stories and poems. he denies his talent but believe me when i tell you that he is a phenomenal writer. his poems are some of the most well written poems i've ever read. and... he can write in english. i kid him all the time and tell him that he is basically american. he's picked up so much english and he often translates for me with the others. ernesto makes bracelets and they are beautiful. he is teaching me how to make them but i am not picking it up very fast. i taught him how to make two different types of bracelets and on his first try his bracelets were perfect. it hurts my pride immensely that he is so much better than me. :) we get to spend sunday mornings at the church with them. we worship with them and then go to the back yard for sunday school. it is such a sweet time. i get a lot of practice listening and understanding spanish. after sunday school we just get to hang out. we get to talk about all kinds of things. this time maybe some of my favorite time we spend during the week. 

we have so much fun with them.

my picture from betzabe.

my picture from daniel. 

just one of our many talented musicians. ernesto. :)

i have to share with you all a huge accomplishment for me. for those of you who know me. i'm not a fan of feet. i'm not afraid of them i would just rather not touch bare feet or have them touch me. well... on saturday one of my sweet niñas maria (sarah blogged about her and her brother carlos) came up to me and asked me to paint her fingernails. we crawled up to the landing at the top of the slide and i took out all the colors. she picked out a color and put her foot in my lap. i was confused so i asked her to give me her hand. well, maria wanted her toenails painted first. i couldn't tell her no so i just sucked it up and held her foot steady as i painted them a pretty pink. today i painted sarah's toes before we left for church. this is a big deal for me. :)

yesterday at casitas kennedy i taught two of my niños "i love you." after i taught them, they said it all day!!! melt my heart. isaac and carlos. they are precious. isaac is six and carlos is ten. (carlos is maria's twin). i cannot wait to see them tomorrow to hear their little voices say "i love you."

so i have some more news that i am super excited to share with you. we have a new intern!!!! sarah decker was my roommate during orientation in dallas. she was supposed to be in guatemala for the whole summer, but due to political reasons and certain dangers, it is just not safe for interns to be there. the other four interns return home tomorrow and sarah arrived in honduras today! sarah will stay with me in tegucigalpa the week after sarah, caitlin and kimberly leave and we will fly together to san pedro sula on the ninth. i am so excited to have her with me. 

anxiously awaiting the arrival of our new friend and intern. :)

introducing sarah decker!!! she's the cute american with all the precious guatemalan kids. :) 
follow her!!! sarah's blog.

pray for us as we enter our last week all together. we are all loving it here and one of us want it to end. pray for our hearts as we serve our last week. i love you very much and i am so thankful for all of you. :) 


i almost forgot... when sarah arrived today we took her to baleada's for lunch (because it's the best). on our car ride there we were talking about how our trips weren't what we expected. our conversation was so good and i wanted to share a bit of it with you. when i applied and got accepted to intern in honduras again i expected to a. work with children in an orphanage, loving on them and taking tons of pictures and b. to work at the ctc with families and children. well... we work in an orphanage but due to most of them being social orphans and the older girls being in dangerous life situations, we aren't allowed to take pictures. there is a certain amount of structure but not at the same time. and i am teaching english at the ctc. this is definitely something that i did not expect. though the plans have been much different than i imagined in my head, i could not be more thankful. i believe whole heartedly that God gets rid of any plans i try to make and control in order to show me His will clearly and allow me to serve Him where and in the way that He is calling me to do so. i am so thankful for His provision. i am humbled by the grace He chooses to show us. i know that we are all thankful that it is by that grace we are what we are. and because of the grace and mercy He shows us we are able to be obedient. 


"I must realize that my obedience even in the smallest detail of life has all of the omnipotent power of the grace of God behind it. If I will do my duty, not for duty's sake but because I believe God is engineering my circumstances, then at the very point of my obedience all of the magnificent grace of God is mine through the glorious atonement by the Cross of Christ." -O.Chambers