Team 1 brags about being the work horse team. Before those of us on team 2 got to Honduras, we had heard that that El Corizzo did not have many children, there was no school, there was no soccer field, that 2,000 children had died from dysentery in Tierra Blanca, that the mother and father of our friend Sandy from Rock of Salvation church had abandoned the family, leaving fourteen year old Sandy to take care of her younger two brothers and two sisters, and that our friend Deysi from next door to the mission house had moved to an unknown location. As of tonight, we’ve had great soccer games in El Corizzo with the children who don’t exist on the soccer field that doesn’t exist beside the school that doesn’t exist, all the children in Tierra Blanca are alive, there is no dysentery, Sandy is great and living at home with her mother and father and brothers and sisters, and Deysi is living next door to the mission house. Not a bad day’s work!
We are all relieved and excited that all this information proved to be inaccurate! God is good!
Another late night update. I was beginning to think they had installed stadium lights at El Carrizo...
ReplyDeleteWe'll take these exaggerations and just "let it go". But for the record, WE found Deysi, we knew there was a school we just didn't have time for a field trip, and Sandy must have told us her family moved away because she thought Bobo was coming.
BOBO SAID,
ReplyDeleteI woke up this morning with a peace about not going for the first time. How selfish it would be for me to think about my situation when these miracles are coming out of the place that I think about every day of my life!
Glenn,that picture of you with Sandy says it all. God love you and keep all safe.Your brother,
Bobo
So now Team Two counts as "work" the following: Finding the children who appeared in Team One's pictures, finding Deysi who Dennis, Kristen and Keith visited twice during our visit, finding the soccer field that the Pastor told us about but never took us to see. Hope you're not wearing yourselves out, guys!
ReplyDeleteAs for the school, it is important that a distinction be drawn. We reported what Pastor Mejia told us --- not that there was no school --- but that the families of most of the children of El Carrizo are so poor that they cannot afford the costs associated with going to school, much like Pelucha shown in the picture with Oie above in Altos de Santa Martha.
As for the other information, we celebrate with you that the tragedies which were reported to us did not occur, but would be interested to here why we were told about the children dying in the Tierra Blanca area.
Today is your day for Sunday School and worship with the congregation at Vida Nueva! God Bless you our brothers and those people as you worship together. Our hearts will be with you!