This was definitely the most interesting trip I've taken to Honduras. About a week before I left Dad came into my room with his "this is serious" tone/look. The news he shared with me was that he had talked w/ Terry and that during the length of our trip, there was a possibility of a political disturbance. I really wasn't nervous or anything b/c i know that God always takes care of those who trust him. so i was really counting on Romans 8:28 to hold true. so i along with the Roberts, Tricky, Jenny, & Terry flew down on wednesday june 24th to get some things set up so that once the rest of the group got there that we could get straight to work. wednesday and thursday went by and the small group of us didn't do a whole whole lot but we did some and got ready for the rest of the group which came in on friday. friday we spent most of the day at the airport welcoming the rest of the group. we did work on saturday THEN it got interesting.
Sunday morning at around 5 or 6 am, military personnel captured the president and exported him to costa rica. BUT not before the president made a radio/tv message to all of his supporters to come to the presidential palace to support him. then the government shut down the electric for about an hour or 2. riots began happening throughout portions of the city. we were completely safe and actually if we didn't have anyone telling us what was happening, we would have never known. so that night terry met with all of the leaders and decided collectively to fly everybody out asap. not because it was a danger, but we didn't want to get stuck there if the airport shut down. so the nashville group flew out monday, some more people flew out tuesday, the pa group flew out wednesday, the in group flew out friday along w/ the ky group and dad and i, tim and mark then flew out on saturday, which was very good b/c the airport shut down on sunday for a while.
we continued working throughout the week. we built 6 houses, gave out about $2000 worth of food. we also gave out fresh food from the market. we had devos everynight with speakers from all over the US. we ate lots of cake this trip. apparently lots of ppl were born in early july or late june. (i missed my mom's bday for the 9th year in a row and i'm really sorry about that, i still love you though mom!) probably the biggest event throughout the week was brett getting the truck stuck on the side of a mountain lol. it was a productive trip and i feel bad that we had to leave early. i love this country so much and i hope to some day work for a university that will let me take students there and train them how to coordinate and lead short term mission trips and represent TORCH missions and really carry out what TORCH stands for.
