Thursday, March 19, 2009

Honduras, part 2

I am writing this from the cool airconditioning of my room. I was out in the town this morning trying to buy supper to feed all the kids. The sun is so hot and it is easy to get burned here. Going to the market is quite the task since you have to haggle with the local market vendors to see who gives the best prices for produce. Thankfully one of the staff guys loves to barter so it makes things much easier. I need to take pictures of the market though. There are some pretty nasty things around there. Today, we saw these bloody chuncks of meat laying in the back of an absolutley bloody truck bed. I couldn't even identify what part of the animal it was. And it just lays out in the sun and rots. So gross!

Please continue to pray for our meetings here. Blessings are still coming out of the work here. You can go to the students blog and read some of them there. Last night at one of the sites, the non-Adventist translator was really touched by the sermon on the law of God and was very convicted. He said he is bringing a lot of friends tonight to hear the message. Pray esp. this weekend since the topic is on Sabbath vs. Sunday.

In addition to the meetings, we are tyring to get out and see some of the Honduran country side. We went on an exucursion yesterday to a national park called Punta Sal. The beaches are amazing and the water nice and warm. We took a walk through a jungle path which was really neat. And we saw lots of monkeys. Here are just a few photos of our time.


One of the boats we rode to the island.

This island is called "Cocolito" or "Little Coconut" (I don't know if I spelled that right.)

These birds are called "Friggets." They have an incredible large wingspan and a very long tail.

This was the hike through the jungle.

This monkey looks like he wants to throw something on me. The tour guide said the monkeys do like to throw things.

Another monkey.

A banana flower.

A very poisonous banana spider. They can't kill you, but they make you very sick.

The beach where we spent three hours snorkling, swimming, exploring, and eating a picnic lunch.

A picnic lunch on the beach.

Two students and I.

Yours truly trying to not get burnt. I actually did very well.

2 comments:

Paeter said...
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Paeter said...

Pretty pictures. That banana spider is rather capivating (the design and colors). The translator story is really cool.