Honduras Day 3 February 2012

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I’ve got a little time this morning to write this morning, since Steve and Dan are leaving. Mark will take them to the airport in a little while. I think Warren in going with them, and I am going to stay here and try get a 10 mile run in. That will be a challenge with the hills and the altitude. I’ve run the last 2 mornings and have done pretty well, getting a 3 and 5 mile run in, shortly after daylight.

The last 2 days have been spent at the Farm. I really like this developing ministry. It’s creative and has the potential to change a lot of lives. Nathan Hale and Donnie Anderson are living there and working to develop the property. We’ve have helped out this week, as we have done on previous trips. We have moved tons of blocks. Literally!

The work on the farm is different in that we do not interact much with Hondurans, beyond the few men who are working with us. There are no children around to play with, but that’s OK. We have those opportunities everywhere else we go. The time at the farm is helping us develop a strategy for our work in Guajire.

We talked a lot how we can build block house out there (Guajire), partnering with the locals over a week’s time to build 3 houses, perhaps even sleeping in the village some. Our goal has been, and is, to develop relationships with the locals, sharing our common love found in Christ, providing loving encouragement and support, without enabling. It’s all pretty exciting, because it seems like we are moving toward doing that in a better way.

One of our friends who lives here, Byron Sommardahl, opened a coffee shop yesterday in Santa Rosa. We were his first customers. Byron is a really neat guy. He recently married a Honduran woman and now lives here. He runs a computer business from Honduras now. He is very talented.

This afternoon we are going out to Guajire to visit some of friends. The weather is perfect: 60s in the mornings and around 80 in the afternoon. Keep praying for us.