Wednesday!

We had another awesome day here in hot Honduras. Everyone hunted for treasures this morning at a market nearby our hostel. We had 180 kids show up today, but also had 75 name tags not claimed. This week is carnival and there was something special for the kids today. The Nationals think that they will be back tomorrow. We hope so.

This is the happiest VBS's I think we have ever done. The kids are absolutely loving it!  They have been very attentive and pretty well behaved. We are all falling in love with them. They cheer and shout like wild banshees on the bus ride to the park. They seem to love us too and one kid or another is always hugging on one of us. I've not seen the wild and totally enthusiastic cheering at game time to this degree before.   We have a huge parent and toddler section during opening assembly and they are laughing along with their kids.  Senior Loco is again a favorite.  Today the kids were calling for him before we asked them too.

Pastor Sam lead a city policeman to the lord today during the wild and crazy game time. Our game people looked over and saw them praying and when the policeman opened his eyes he looked so happy!

It seems the entire class of 60-70 Llamas has trusted Christ. They are telling us they have not understood before and do now. I have sensed since day one here that this was a very special fertile field. Where sometimes we are combatting the "I'm going to Heaven because I'm good". Here they just seem more ignorant of any Biblical teaching. One girl came with a baby and we told her the baby couldn't stay. And she sincerely said, but I want to learn more about Jesus. Well, what could we do?

A few of us are catching some type of scratchy throat and head aches.  Would appreciate your prayers for our quick recovery. There is a wonderful sense of comrardery among our team and we are sweating buckets, working really hard and lovin it all!  Well, maybe not the sweat.

Today the hostel housekeeper allowed us to take her 5 year old daughter with us. It was special to see her come back with her crown from crafts and her loot bag. Our bus drivers son Isaac is having a grand ole time. We gave him a VBS shirt and today Austin bought him a black cowboy hat as Isaac had liked the one he wore for a skit. He wore it all day today.

Even more amazing has been God holding off the ever present afternoon dark rain clouds  until we are done at 6:00 p.m.  It absolutely poured late last night. We wondered if all our plastic sheeting decorations would have fallen down, but they didn't. I have been praying for six months about this.  With only two small rooms for the church building rain would make things really challenging.

The pastors wife brought us a delicious mango dessert for our lunch today. Yum!