update from La Entrada

The week with my church in La Entrada has been great... tough but great. We are working in barrio copante, which is about a half mile up a hill outside of La Entrada. Most days we get a ride up and down, but a few times we´ve had to walk, and I don´t know how these Hondurans do it day after day, multiple times a day. The heat is intense... not to mention the 50 degree rocky slope.

A girl from my church singlehandedly decided to start the first library in La Entrada, and the dedication service was today. It´s amazing to hear her story of the 17 months of work, and then see the building and the hudnreds of books in the library.

I have been incharge of the kids, which is more crowd control than teaching. But, we found a happy medium of playing duck duck goose and singing a lot, and then they coorporate and listen to out Bible stories and work well in groups of 4 kids to every translator or gringo. The group from my church is smaller this year, but we have gotten along really well.

It is still hard to see all the poverty in La Entrada... the dirt houses, the kids playing with dirt and other things because they don´t have toys... armless men begging on the street for money... it´s hard to process and see where God is in everything, and how he works everything together for his purposes.

I´m worried about all of this TSA stuff and my flight next week... they seem really strict, and I´ve already heard horror stories about 2 hour long lines for checkpoints in the airports. It really be a rude welcoming back into the United States for me next Saturday evening.

time for dinner... i hope everything is well in the states... thanks for reading all of this!