Taking a break...

Although we love it here, it can be stressful at times because it is difficult to take a break. We live in a neighborhood with A LOT of children, and most of them are very needy… both financially and emotionally. Most people here have a lot of kids, and don’t have the time to spend individual time with each child. One neighbor has 41 kids and another has 25! Granted, a lot of those kids aren’t in the same home at the same time, but there are several homes with 8 or more kids, and most of them live in one bedroom homes. These kids love spending time with us because we listen to them, hug them, and show them love. When we are home, there is almost always someone at our door wanting something from us. For this reason, we thoroughly enjoyed last weekend because we were able to get away to El Progreso, Honduras!

El Progreso really isn’t that exciting of a place – there is a small mall that is pretty nice, a Wendy’s, Burger King, Pizza Hut, and a few grocery stores. We enjoy going there because there is a comfortable hotel with a nice pool, hot showers, low prices, and lots of quiet. This time we were also able to go to the beach at Tela, which is on the Caribbean Sea, and since there was a hurricane brewing out in the Caribbean, the waves were incredible. We enjoyed playing in the warm water, and met some really nice missionaries from California who were in Honduras building wells. This was Efren’s first vacation, and he really enjoyed himself.


In our last post we mentioned that we were going to be having Fatima and Efren living with us for a month and then seeing where we should go from there. It turns out that Fatima did not like living here with our rules, and chose to return to her former home. Thankfully, her aunt, who is her guardian, has finally found a job and is better able to support the family. Efren has really adjusted well to our family, and we have all decided that we would like to make him a permanent part of our family. He loves having a family, and is always quick to give us hugs. He loves spending time with Gordon watching sports and playing the Wii, and fits in really well with our family. He had never been in a family where he was wanted, and his life has been in danger many times in his short life; he was stabbed in the heart when he was younger, but thankfully he survived the attack. We are all really thankful that God placed him in our family.


We would really like to find people to sponsor kids who want to go to high school (colegio). If you are interested in helping, please let us know. You can also donate by clicking on the buttons on this page. It is actually very inexpensive to attend school, but for people here, it is difficult. If you would like to sponsor Darwin or Jessica, we can arrange skype calls or an email relationship. Darwin is 12 and Jessica is 14, and both live close to us and spend a lot of time with us. They are both very intelligent and are learning a lot of English. It only costs about $25 per month per student to attend school, so it’s a pretty good deal!

Darwin

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Jessica

Thank you for all of your prayers. We are all currently feeling pretty good for a change, and are really enjoying cooler weather.


Specific Needs:


*Rosetta Stone English – we are trying to save enough money to buy this program so that Efren can learn English…


*Efren – that if we are supposed to adopt Efren legally that everything will go smoothly for us and that we will be able to raise the money needed to do this.


*Efren again – That we will be able to find someone to stay with Efren while we are in the states in January.