Thursday, Friday, and Saturday

Thursday



Its Anna and Sam, so the days are running together..and as far as we can tell..we went to Jimmy Hughes Thursday morning...theres a chance that we did something before that..but..well its getting late..and we cant remember..



So anyways..Jimmy Hughes was a great facility, the kids were awesome. They showed us the rehab center, and we met Salvador, who has an amazing testimony about being brought to Jesus after a life of drugs and violence, and at the end he rapped for us!! After that Jimmy Hughes talked with us, and shared his story with us, and talked about the childrens home and rehab center.



A little later we headed out for Didasko Orphanage. This orphanage has been struggling financially, because they had lost some of their main support, so our team raised enough money {$3000} to give them, which will feed these amazing kids for another month! God is awesome, and faithful!!



We then went to Valle De Angeles to do some shopping, eat dinner at a nice restaraunt with amazing food, and then went to Santa Lucia. In Santa Lucia we went to the oldest Cathedral in the Western Hemisphere that is still standing. There we had our devo and the singing sounded amazing in this place!!





Friday



Friday morning we split up our team into three groups, and headed to Santa Ana to build 3 houses. BUT...Welcome to Honduras..the wood showed up to only one of the three house sites..so while that team built in the pouring rain ALL DAY, the rest of us helped out with the 15 kids at Casa De Esperanza. Once the whole team got to Casa we had a baleada dinner, and played with the kids until bedtime. We spent the night at Casa.





Saturday



When we got up we played with the kids at Casa, and had donuts for breakfast. About 10 people on our team got up early and went to finish the house that was started yesterday, and built another one. This group endured working in the extremely hot weather, and then of course the rain. The rest of our group loaded up the bus, and went to Ojojona to do a little more shopping. After that we went to Casitas Kennedy, which is the state run orphanage. Our team has seen a lot of things on this trip, but this place could possibly be the worst we've seen yet. These kids have had the worst of the worst life. Many of them have been abused, abandoned, and neglected for much of their short lives. So we spent some time playing with them and letting them know that they are loved and havent been forgotten, we also had a pizza lunch with them, which they enjoyed a whole lot!!



Then we went to Hospital Escuela and split into 4 groups, and went from floor to floor playing with some sick kiddos, and just being with them, because many of them were alone for whatever reason. This hospital is a free hospital, so the poorest of the poor come here because they have no where else to go. This hospital is very run down, and they dont have all the luxuries of medical technologies that we have in the states. One little girl that some people on our team got to spend time with was abused by one of the nurses on the staff, and something happened with her bones that causes her to shake all the time now. The nurse didnt even get fired after this incident with this young girl.



We all ended up back at the mission house for an amazing dinner, then some people went to play soccer, while others went to the pulperia for crepes.





Tomorrow we will get up early to have our last devo at the Jesus Statue, and then we will grab a fast food lunch, and get on the plane to head home! Please keep us in your prayers as we travel!



Much Love



Anna & Sam



P.S-- Rachel, I'm not dead. =] Anna