Ok...it is so hard to believe that we are packing to go home tonight! No one really wants to go to bed because I believe it will be making the end a reality. But today one of the missionaries told us that if we can't come back to Honduras to serve then we should find our own Honduras where we live...how true that is for all of us!
Today we got up and went up the Mi Esperanza to shop. This shop is filled with awesome items made by Honduran women who have once lived in poverty and even in the dump that we went to after shopping. There was some jewelry in the shop that is made by women who lived in the dump and collected newspaper to make this jewelry. How humbling is that! The missionary in the store assured us that by shopping there we are heroes...let me tell you that's all a girl needs to hear before shopping.
After shopping we headed up to the dump. The road to the main part of the dump was lined with garbage, buzzards, dogs, and yes...people. The rains had made the roads quite muddy and I have to admit I was scared that we would get stuck and have to walk in the mud to serve these people. How selfish! But God made a way for us to get to the spot where we would feed the dump people. There are people who live in the dump and there are those who go to the dump to "recycle" mostly the plastic...it's their job. The people lined up in an orderly fashion to wait for a hot meal and a bag of water from the team. In the past, they told us the people would be pushing and shoving but in the past few months that has all changed and the people just have been more ready to listen and line up for their free meal. We stood and had prayer right there in the middle of the garbage while some of the dump people stood and listened. The future plan is to get the children out of the dump...that's when Mark Tindall told us about finding our own Honduras if we couldn't come back to help here.
We then went to the Valley of Angels shopping...it was funny how so many people in the stores were American. I saw one t-shirt that said "I survived a mission trip to Honduras". It was a surprise to me as they also gave a 20% discount to missionaries shopping there.
We meet the kids from Casa at KFC and bought them dinner...played with them for a while and then had to say some sad good-byes. Michael and I had purchased a little lime green bracelet for Daniela and as we put it on her arm...I told her to think of Mike and me whenever she looked at it. Then the priceless hug of that little girl sent me off in tears as Michael gave her a hug and told her he loves her!
Then it was off to Baskin Robbins for a final stop before coming back to the Missions House to pack. I will continue to post some of the happenings in Honduras so that I will have them on record and so that I will never forget them....not that that is even a remote possibility!
So it's back to Norton...pictures will follow on the blog and on facebook when I get home to a real internet connection so keep checking the blogs....they will be updated as things pop in our heads.
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