One day more!

It seems to happen this way every year. The first half of the week seems like forever as we each find our niche and are getting acclimated to life in Honduras. But then, it seems like it’s Wednesday morning, and then it is suddenly time to go. We don’t leave until tomorrow, but we head out pretty early; so, this is the day we wrap everything up and start saying our goodbyes. Yesterday was crazy busy. So crazy, that I didn’t post at the end of the day, but crawled into bed around 8:30 while we still had guests up at the time house. I feel like it was an accomplishment, though, Blake looked at his watch at 6:30 and asked if it was bedtime yet. Somehow, yesterday we were able to bake 90 cupcakes for the Big Girls house, host two cookie decorating parties, host two ice cream parties and still find time to play with the kids. We call it the “men’s work”, because it’s the more physical labor. They were avle to accomplish a ton towards their goal yesterday building one water tower, completing about 70 percent of a second tower, covered up all the irrigation lines…. Denise, Cindy and Cheryl have completed nearly 120 haircuts. One of the amazing wonders of this place is that with 542 children, primarily playing in dirt yards, you never see a child in need of a haircut, with dirty fingernails, or in unclean clothing. An unexpected joy of the team is finding out the hidden artist in so many! We were asked last minute to paint 3 murals in the gym for visiting dignitaries this weekend. Morgan and Heather jumped on the concept in planning and designing the mural. But then, there have been so many contributors! Virginia wins the steady hand award, painting meticulously a chain link swing set that has us all in awe. Hope wins the “thank you for being able to paint people” award as we were all very demonstrative on which ones of us would NOT be painting people. I won the landscape artist award. Salem has won the thank you for doing everything we ask award. I am sure that I have forgotten to name some awards as there have been so many hands to come in and help! We try to spend the day every day recounting the ways we have seen the face of Jesus, but it seems that the sightings are getting far too many to recount in one day. The blessings have poured forth in amazing ways this week. We are readying to head down to big circle, where all 542 children and all the staff gather for one amazing devotion at 6 a.m. every Friday. It’s a pretty powerful experience to top off a pretty powerful week.