January 21 – 22, 2008

Guess where we went again? Back to San Pedro Sula. On Monday Brad went with Saul. They went to the school to arrange for translators for the Med/Den team in February. It went well and the principal is very agreeable to provide some students. They also went to run some errands for other team members and then stopped by the lumber yard on the way home to get quotes for a couple of projects. The best part of the trip was Brad got to spend some time with Saul. They were able to share with each other more about their vision for the future. They had also planned to go see the site for the Med/Den team but by the time they finished all the errands for everybody else they didn’t get home until about 4:00 pm

On Tuesday we had planned to go to the Med/Den site again but before we could leave a couple of our female team members asked if we could take them to San Pedro Sula to run some errands with them. It’s not really a safe place to send women by themselves. If everything goes as expected while in the city than it’s not a concern. If there is a problem then it’s a good idea to have a guy along. So we left in the morning and got back about 3:30. Any trip to San Pedro Sula means an entire day taken up.

While we waited for Tania and Julia to finish their stuff at the bank we went into the American Airlines office to see about setting up our Advantage Miles account. Found out we can’t get credit for miles already flown before we setup the account. The man who helped us spoke perfect English. We thought he would be a great person to ask what he thought is the best way to learn Spanish. So, we ask him “How did you learn English so well?” His response “I attended a bilingual school for 12 years and had to speak English all day.” Not exactly what we had hoped to hear. Then he proceeds to tell us that Spanish is a very difficult language to learn because of the grammar. Now that did make us feel better. Maybe we’re not as dumb and slow as we thought.

Tuesday night we went with the team to the Faith Home church service. The team seemed to enjoy being around the kids and the kids seemed to enjoy having the team.
Something you can pray about is someone to fill the role of a pastor/mentor for the older kids at Faith Home. Just like in the States the older kids are a little bored by the service because it’s geared more toward the younger kids. We need someone who is focused on the older kids. Pastor Miguel can’t do it all.