The Desires of Your Heart.

Psalms 37:4
"Take delight in the LORD,
   and he will give you the desires of your heart."

As most of you know, I grew up around horses and I absolutely love riding horses. It's just something that is fun, and relaxing for me. The other day, I was talking with my friend about really wanting to ride a horse, we were trying to figure out where they had horses here in Siguatepeque and where we could go riding. We only talked about it for a few minutes and then forgot about it.
Later that same day, we were driving to the market to pick up bananas and I saw a horse with a saddle on. I thought it would be a great picture so I had Allan drive down the rode towards the horse. To my surprise, Allan knew the lady that was standing with the owner of the horse and she asked if I wanted to ride. Or course I wanted to but had to say no. The lady insisted and so I got on. I just rode down the street and back, but it felt great! I was so happy and blown away by what God did.  After I rode, we were standing there talking about how crazy it was that, it was just that morning that I had said that I wanted to ride a horse. The lady put it in great terms, she said 'God gives you the desires of your heart. He knows what you want.' And you know it is so true! In that moment it showed me how blessed I am to have a God that loves me so much. He wants to see us happy and He will give us the desires of our heart. Even if it's a little thing, such as riding a horse. This has not been the only time that God has given me the desires of my heart, and I know it probably won't be the last. God wants to see us happy, He wants to give us what we desire. He loves to do things like that.

The picture I wanted to take. (:

 

I wanted to write this story not only because it is a amazing story about how much God loves us, but also to encourage you in some way. I hope you were encouraged.(:

Always Remember:

"Take delight in the LORD,
   and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD;
   trust in him and he will do this." (Psalms 37:4-5)

So the question is:
"What is your desire?"

Your desire is what you long for, what or whom you long to be with. Your desire is where your heart is. Your desire is your greatest treasure and will be your reward.

"For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

Matthew 6:21

Papsusas.

Today's meal was Papusas. They are pretty much tortilla with a special cheese in the middle. They are yummy!

Tomorrow I will be cooking Chicken Alfredo for the teachers. It's something different for them. I'm excited about it and I think they are too! I hope you have enjoyed this week. I will be posting the recipes very soon. I have them only in Spanish though so I hope you can translate. (;
Blessings to you! I hope you have a fantastic weekend! Until Next Time.

Pastelitos.

Wednesday's meal was Pastelitos, not one of my favorite meals to make, but one of my favorite to eat!

Making Lemonade.

Making Pastelitos or rather trying to. (:

The finished product.

Enjoying the meal with friends.

I hope you have enjoyed. (: 

Platano, Beans, Eggs, & Tortillas.

Today I got to learn how to make another traditional meal here: Platano, re-fried beans, eggs, and tortillas! This meal is usually for dinner but we ate it for lunch anyways. It was so yummy!

Trying to show me the proper way to make tortillas.

It's harder than it looks!

My tortilla (in front) compared to Blanca's.

Platano before we fried them.

Our lovely meal. Platano, Beans, Eggs, Tortillas (not in the picture) and hot Chocolate!

Honduran Tacos.

This week I am 'house sitting' for fellow missionaries that had to make a trip to Belize to renew their visa. (The same trip I have to make in a few weeks) Anyways, because I am house sitting, I am able to cook in a real kitchen! So this week I have asked my teachers to show me how to cook some of the popular Honduran meals! I will be learning a new item each day, but ending the week with me cooking American food for my teachers. I have a feeling this is going to be the best week of Spanish class!

The first Item I learned is Honduran Tacos:

Well that's it for today. I hope you enjoyed. Until next time!

P.S: Directions on how to cook them, will follow shortly.

Fuimos a Comayagua

This Saturday all of the Spanish student (all 3 of us), the teachers and 2 1/2 extra people, went on a field trip to a neighboring town known as, Comayagua. We spent the morning touring a church and then we learned some of the history of Comayagua and more. After all of the touring we got to sit down and enjoy a nice meal at a restaurant in Central Park. It was absolutely beautiful! I loved it!  I hope you enjoy the pictures! Until next time!

The most beautiful view! There are many like this here. 

The view of central park in Comayagua. Taken from the bell town. 

Reyna, Blanca, Christi and Greta.

Buying a snack! Honduran Nachos are the best!

Greta, a little missionary kid. My new best friend. 

Dia de Gracias.

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I can say that mine was very different and I loved it. Thanksgiving is a American thing so the Hondurans don't celebrate it here. However, there are many missionary families here in Siguatepeque so we got together and celebrated!! I can say I have so much to be grateful for... the thing that really gets me now and what really hit me on Thanksgiving day is that I am grateful for the second family God has given me. It was so nice to be able to get together with other people and give thanks together. God had it all prepared for me to come into this great family here and it is so wonderful! Such a blessing! Here are a few pictures from Thanksgiving. Enjoy! Until Next Time!

 All the Kids enjoying lunch.

 We had to see if we could fit. This was right before the kids attacked us. (:

Malachi enjoying his Thanksgiving.

Enjoying wonderful conversation, with wonderful people. (:

The Last few weeks.

The weeks have just flown by! I cannot believe it is a week from Thanksgiving! Where has the time gone?!? So much has happened since arriving here. I have found myself speaking more Spanish! which is good since I'm here to learn. The other day I had a argument about the cake icing in Honduras. Yea it sounds pretty dumb to have argument about cake icing, but the thing that amazes me is that I had that argument in SPANISH!! You know you have learned a lot when you can have a argument about cake icing is Spanish. :)  And that is just one of many example to show that I am learning Spanish. It makes me so happy!
Well since I am already writing a blog, I should probably update you on the last few weeks. I'll start with last week. Last week was a long week of preparing for graduation here at the seminary. We had a total of, I believe, 20 students graduate from the seminary school! Hallelujah! Those students are equipped to reach other people with what they have learned here at the seminary! We had a banquet for the students and their family Friday night, which last a total of like 2 or 3 hours! It was very nice though. Saturday they had the graduation for the students and several people came from all over Honduras. It was a great experience. So last week was a week of preparing for graduation and also a week of saying goodbye to the students. For those who did not graduate this year, they will return to seminary in February. From now until around February is Honduras's 'summer' break from school. So now it is super quiet here on campus! So if you ever want to visit Honduras... (:
A little note to put in here....(also a prayer request) As well as having to deal with the preparations for graduation, i was also dealing with a ruptured eardrum. Which was not fun. So in the mist of everything, one day last week my eardrum decided to rupture in the middle of the night. It is doing a lot better now. Praise God! So please pray that it continues to heal quickly and that the other ear doesn't decide to do the same thing.
Also October 28- November 2. I got to visit many different places. First I traveled to Didasko! (For those that don't know about Didasko, it is the children home here in Honduras where I lived from Feb. - May this year.) I traveled with a friend from Siguatepeque to Tamara which is about a 2 hour bus drive. After the bus ride, we were picked up by Rhonda, a missionary who lives in the children home, and taken to Didasko. The kids didn't know we were going, so they were very surprised to see us! It was amazing! You should have seen the kids face! We only got to stay in Didasko Friday - Sunday which was not enough time! But I plan to return sometime in the next few weeks.
That Sunday we met up with Mark, Peyton, and Micah. On Monday we got to visit some friends of Mark that live past Danli, which is about 2-3 hours from Tegucigalpa. I got to meet new friends, along with getting to see new and exciting places! It was such a great experience! I cannot wait to visit the people again! We got to do so many other things also but there's not enough time to write it all!
There is so much I can write about but my computer is dying and I do not have the charge so I must cut it short this time. I hope you enjoyed! For the next blog I will post pictures from this trip! so Until next time!

Prayer Request.

Friends & supporters 

Please pray that God would continue to provide me with the tools I need to further my ministry in Honduras.  The computer I have been borrowing here is leaving soon, greatly limiting my options to study, research and communicate with those here and in the States.  Thank you for your continued support!

The North Coast.

This past weekend was amazing! Really my whole time here has been great! But this weekend was a true blessing. I got to go down to Balfate, Honduras which is about a 6 hour drive from where I'm at now. However, since I went along with a family, who is looking for a place to serve, we got to stop at many different places. I got to meet three National Pastors and their families and that in itself was a blessing. I even got to stay the night in Tela with one of the Pastors and his wife, there I had to use my Spanish. I can say that night we laughed a lot! I couldn't understand them all the time and they couldn't understand me all the time but we made it through the night and had fun just talking. (Or trying to. lol) We left the seminary on Thursday and we stopped in Tela and La Ceiba and then went on to Balfate, there we stayed the night. Thursday we toured the hospital and went to a fellowship thing that was for all of the missionaries that were working in and around the hospital. It was fun to be around all of the people and be able to hear what kind of ministry they do here in Honduras.
Friday morning Mark Fittz and I took a young lady to the bilingual school that she worked out. That Friday was a holiday and even though the kids didn't have school they still showed up. I thought that was really night. We got to hang out with the kids and talk with them, since it was a bilingual school some of the kids knew English very well. We hung out at the school for about a hour or so. While there a missionary who works in the Hospital and does ministry in the rural areas and in different schools in the area showed. He pulls out a piece of cloth and the kids all gather around and starts singing a song, first in Spanish then in English. The song starts out from the beginning of the bible and end with the resurrection of Christ. Then they pull out another piece of cloth and starts singing about the Continents, and other things. It was so great to watch the children and even the Principle of the school singing! It is a great ministry!
I got to experience that and then after that we got to go to the Children home. Which is one of my favorite things to do so far. While in the States my mom collected stuffed animals for me to take with me when I went back to Honduras. Since I had them I was able to had them out to the children! You should have seen them! It was amazing! I didn't get to meet all the children that live there because the older ones were in school but I did get to meet all of the little ones which was such a privilege. After all the little ones got there stuffed animals Iain and Liz, the directors of the children home (Missionaries from Scottland) gave us all a tour of the place. We didn't get to stay very long but the time that I was there was such a blessings. I got to hear about the ministry that they do there and also hear some of the stories of the children. Some of their stories are heart breaking, and they will bring tears to your eyes. But it also brought joy to me when I got to hand out the stuffed animals and play with them. It was a great privilege and honor to be able to go there. 
After the children home we headed back to Tela but we made a few stops to visit Pastors and their families. It was nice to even get to hear their heart and their ministry. All together the weekend was very successful and a huge blessings. I look forward to going back to those places. I do hope I get to go back soon.

Well I need to head out. So until next time.

Prayer Request.

Well I can say that this week has been another successful week. I have had so much fun learning! I need extra prayer this weekend. Tomorrow I will be leaving to head to the North Coast to visit an orphanage which is located right next to a hospital. Since it is right next to the hospital the government has made this orphanage a place where they place high-risk children, those that need extra attention because of the condition that they are in. I have been told to prepare myself because some of the conditions the children are in are extreme and will be sure to break my heart. I look forward to being able to love on these children. I cannot wait! I have little stuffed animals waiting to be given to their new owner. (: It will be a great experience and yet like I said will break my heart. (i have already heard some of their stories) So please keep me in your prayers this weekend. They will be need and I would really appreciate it. Thank you for praying for me! I thank God for you every day! Blessings. Until next time.

The First Week.

I cannot tell you have much information or rather Spanish I have learned this week!! I feel as if my brain may explode from everything that is getting crammed into it!


Well this week has gone by slow yet fast in some way, I have loved going to class and being busy again! But most importantly I have LOVED learning Spanish! There are some difficult things in the language but my teachers have really had the patience to help me better understand everything, no matter how many times I have to repeat a word. Did I tell you I have some great teachers! (Reyna y Melissa) Reyna is my teacher in the mornings from 8-10a.m. and Melissa is my teacher in the evening from 3-5p.m. In the mornings we go over all of the grammar in Spanish and also go over new verbs and vocabulary words. After my morning calls I usually take a little break from Spanish and go check my emails and such then I go and study for my next class. I have those classes 5 days a week which makes it 20 hours of Spanish in a class room plus all of the time i put into studying. It's so much! My first two days of school I was in bed by 7:00 because I was just so tired, my brain was really on an over load! It’s been fun though. I like my teachers and I am learning a lot from them. There are three other Spanish students. One other person takes 20 hours a week with me and then there's one that takes 15hours a week. And then there's my roommate that takes 2 hours a week, She teaches English here though and knows Spanish really well actually. My morning class is mainly learning the grammatical ways of Spanish and my afternoon is more focused on getting me used to talking in Spanish.


This was field trip day. We got to walk to one of the Market places. While we did we had to obsevere all of the materials needed to build a house and also we had to learn the names of the materials and houses. It was a blast!

 
These are two other Spanish students, Brayan and Peyton, and the two ladies are my teachers!


Since I live on a bible seminary campus I have gotten to meet several new people, most of which are around my age. But there are also three missionary families that live here, and one single guy and then Gillian, my roommate. so I have a lot of new friends. and I have also met several missionary families that work in this area. I am, starting to attend a bible study that is for the missionaries in this area. I went this past Wednesday and there were like 20-30 people there. It was very nice. There is also a prayer time on Sunday night that is for the ‘team’ that lives here on campus, so I am very blessed to have the opportunity to go to that and share that time with my new team mates. (:

Here are some of my new friends. (:

 Hey you can pray for me. Next Thursday I’m headed to the North Coast to a high-risk orphanage. (It is located right next to a hospital and that is a place they have kids that have special needs, like medical needs and such. I know it’s going to be hard to see kids like that I have already heard some of their stories and it crazy to think about how much they've been through at such a young age. So just keep me in your prayers next weekend. I pray that God uses me to help touch these kids’ lives. I am so excited to be able to love on them! Just keep me in your prayers for that. And also that I continue to excel quickly in my classes and that I’m able to retain all of the information given to me. Well that is it for now. I hope you enjoyed. Until next time.

First Day of School.

Well I have completed my first day of language school!! I'm so excited! I will be doing 20 hours a week. My classes are 8-10am and 3-5m so be praying for me during those times. Prayers are needed! Well I will have to tell you more later, my brain is tired and I have to go study for tomorrow. Adios! Until next time.

Flooding In Honduras.

Rain has destroyed about 24,000 houses and damaged 79,000 acres planted with grains and coffee, More than 19,000 people have been evacuated from their homes.

MORE RAIN IS EXPECTED!!

Raging rivers and landslides have destroyed dozens of bridges and damaged more than 150 highways across the country.

Those are just some things I have found off the internet about the flooding in Honduras. I am sure that it has changed. Ever since I have arrived it has rained. There was a time, right before we left the airport that it wasn't raining but by the time we got out of the city, it was raining. On our drive back we got to see how many problems the rain has caused. Bridges were washed away...(Picture below) Houses were flooded. Crops were ruined. And much more.
AND STILL THE RAIN CONTINUES!
Mark tells me that as he was driving back to campus from San Pedro Sula he saw tents on the side of the road because people were forced out of their houses. The flooding has really brought about disaster in areas. There are mudslides and bridge calaspes. Its heart breaking because some of these people have lot everything. They'll survive, they always do. Lets keep them in our prayers! I do think this is only the begining of the rainy season.


Here are a few pictures.

Aerial view of Honduras. This is what it looked like when I was landing.
(I didn't take this picture.)


The High Waters.


People now have to take turns crossing on a smaller bridge because parts other bridge were missing.


This is the bridge that was closed.