It is 7:15 in the morning on June 28th and tears fill my eyes as I sit in my hotel room for the last time. Seven days has come and gone too fast. The time has come for our last celebration time with our Honduran friends, and we board the plane at noon today. i have made some great friendships with Impacto students this year as well as given my heart to the kids at Ayestas. A few kids in particular like Issacar, Ariel, Scarlet, Edgar, and many more are holding a piece of my heart this morning. I don't want to come home. I think this year more than any of the previous three years I want to stay here. I want to go back to Ayestas. I want to hold Ariel and see his smile. I want to sit and talk to Johnny (Ariel's dad) for hours with us both trying to speak the other person's language. I want to hold Scarlet in my arms and tell her that I love her and that God loves her even more. I want to have another staring contest with Issacar until he breaks down and smiles and runs to my arms. I want to work alongside of the Impacto students and adults accomplishing the same goal of advancing the Kingdom of God. I want to be in Honduras!
Yesterday was bittersweet. We had our final day at Ayestas and February 21. One of my best friends and leader of this trip, Will McKay, has a little boy who he and Jennie pretty much take care of that he calls "Little Man." We found out that his bed consists of a little sheet and blanket on a tile floor. Not anymore! Will and I bought him a little bed thing from the mall and took it to February 21 to give it to him yesterday. He went crazy! He started jumping on it, playing with it like it was a toy, and just about everything you can image with it but lay down and sleep on it. But all of that to say, because of your support of me and your prayers for myself and our team, one little boy slept in a bed last night for the first time! Praise be to God!!
Ariel and Scarlet are brother and sister, and their parents are Johnny and another woman that I can't pronounce her name. They are amazing. I love their family so much. I bought Ariel a soccer jersey, shorts, a polo, and a pair of pants and Johnny a jersey of his favorite team, and gave the stuff to them yesterday. They went nuts. They loved it. It was worth every penny I spent on this trip as well as on the actual stuff to see the smiles on their faces. At the same time I was handing the jersey to Johnny, he reached behind him and handed me a present. It was a jersey of the same team I bought him but the other color they wear. I hugged Johnny and started crying right there on the spot. God is amazing. They have so little here yet still give like they are rich. I bought Scarlet a shirt and Johnny's wife a bracelet last night and can't wait to give it to them today. I also bought Issacar a jersey last night as well. I have never had so much fun shopping for other people.
Well it is time for me to head down to breakfast with our team. I will write more on the plane ride home today and post it when I get home tonight. Please continue to pray! I love each and every one of you!!
Yesterday was bittersweet. We had our final day at Ayestas and February 21. One of my best friends and leader of this trip, Will McKay, has a little boy who he and Jennie pretty much take care of that he calls "Little Man." We found out that his bed consists of a little sheet and blanket on a tile floor. Not anymore! Will and I bought him a little bed thing from the mall and took it to February 21 to give it to him yesterday. He went crazy! He started jumping on it, playing with it like it was a toy, and just about everything you can image with it but lay down and sleep on it. But all of that to say, because of your support of me and your prayers for myself and our team, one little boy slept in a bed last night for the first time! Praise be to God!!
Ariel and Scarlet are brother and sister, and their parents are Johnny and another woman that I can't pronounce her name. They are amazing. I love their family so much. I bought Ariel a soccer jersey, shorts, a polo, and a pair of pants and Johnny a jersey of his favorite team, and gave the stuff to them yesterday. They went nuts. They loved it. It was worth every penny I spent on this trip as well as on the actual stuff to see the smiles on their faces. At the same time I was handing the jersey to Johnny, he reached behind him and handed me a present. It was a jersey of the same team I bought him but the other color they wear. I hugged Johnny and started crying right there on the spot. God is amazing. They have so little here yet still give like they are rich. I bought Scarlet a shirt and Johnny's wife a bracelet last night and can't wait to give it to them today. I also bought Issacar a jersey last night as well. I have never had so much fun shopping for other people.
Well it is time for me to head down to breakfast with our team. I will write more on the plane ride home today and post it when I get home tonight. Please continue to pray! I love each and every one of you!!
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