I found the next place in Honduras where I want to live!!!

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I just got back from a two day trip to Guayamaca, about an hour or two away from La Joya. It was a phenomenal trip for so many reasons...

• traveling with 3 incredible friends

• visiting a new place in Honduras

• meeting and staying with the family of my friends

• eating typical Honduran food (after not for 2 weeks)

• traveling up a mountain in the back of a pick-up to a childhood spot of our friends

• visiting the small, Christian, bilingual school where Joel worked

• being surrounded by the Honduran cultural again

• watching TV in Spanish

• getting a motorcycle ride

• being in a place so flat and open and spread out, with gorgeou mountains all around

• feeling at home

• falling in love with the place!

... seriously, I would love to come back and stay for "a time" in Guayamaca. There's something about the normalness of the town that makes me feel so comfortable, especially after the tourism of Copán. And I already have invitations to stay with two families there (they'll have to fight for me, I guess).

It really is a lovely place and I'm a bit sad that it took me this long to discover it. How many other jewels are just sitting there, an hour or two away, waiting for me to arrive? (Goodness! After wanting nothing else but to go home for such a long time it's getting harder and harder to think about leaving!) But I'm so thankful to have visted so many wonderful places and to have the friendships I have. I know that I can come back at any moment and have people happy to open their homes to me. That is an incredible feeling.

Us 4 enjoyed our two days of "vacation" away from La Joya. It was our only opportunity since a team left yesterday and another one comes on Saturday! But we're glad to be back. "Hogar, dulce Hogar" said Daniela. We'll be back to work tomorrow getting everything ready for the next group.

I have less than 3 weeks left in Honduras. It's a mixture of saddness and excitement. God is good though and that's more than enough!

Lots of love, and for His glory!
April

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Photos

View from the top!
On one of the mountains looking down at Guayamaca

a bat...
...outside the cave. First they tried to hit it with a rock, then they ran and screamed with it flew at them.

the rain's coming
we sat and watched the rain come across the mountians in the distance and cover the town below. Incredible. And then to see the hawks flying below you ... it's something you can't feel anywhere else.

Comments

[Ben]

Bats
Please dont throw rocks to the bats. They are also God's creation. Muchacha no por favor. Enjoy your last 3 weeks in Honduras Michigan weather will be so on its peak of the heat when you get back. Take care and be safe. Adios

[Rilla]

ok...just to clarify...I didn't do any rock throwing...it was THEM...all THEM!!! Plus it was an ity-bity guy, and maybe hurt or sick or who knows. Actually they think he may have been the "black bat" of the family since he was hanging outside the cave in the middle of the day. (They did finally leave him in peace...with no physical harm done. Good thing they're bad aims). Si, disfruto mucho mis ultimas semanas aca. increible que ya me voy. Estoy emocionada para regresar a Michigan...pero muy triste dejar todo de Honduras. Pero, mi vida esta en las mano de Dios ... El es fiel y sabe todo. :)

[erin_bird]

i wish i could have been there!! this looks so amazing. the rain... the water... the bats!! i want to see it all...

[Solana]

what a foursome!!!
It looks like you had an incredible time. Just more icing on the cake of living in Honduras, right? Well, maybe another layer plus icing. I hope we see you again some day this side of heaven. Love you!