What we've been up to...

This past week was one crazy week.  We were traveling through different places as we were making our way to Tegucigalpa.  Kelley and Abner dropped us off at Peña Blanca where we were spending a few days with my aunt and uncle.  It was a really neat time.  The area where they live is up in the mountains and really nice and cool, so we were so grateful to be out of the heat of La Ceiba.  We got to rest for a couple of days there.  We also traveled to San Pedro Sula with them for a day visit to see my cousin and her family.  We were then picked up by my other uncle and he took us to Siguatepeque where we spent another couple of days with him and his family.  After a couple of days here, my parents picked us up from Siguatepeque and we are finally home at my parents house in Tegucigalpa.  It's nice being back "home" and enjoying my immediate family!

  

We enjoyed all of our stays so much and yet everywhere we went we also got to see so many needs and family hurting some way or another.  It was bitter-sweet, but we were grateful for the opportunities we had to share His Truth and hope with them.  We love getting to know our family and being able to share the hope that we have in Him.  We had many opportunities to pray with them, encourage them in the Lord, share from His Word and minister to those who needed to be comforted.  

We are now at my parents' house and there are also many opportunities to share with them.  I told Matty how sad I have felt seeing so much hurt in others and how foreign God seemed to them...how our lives were so different and how only the Lord could truly save them.  It has been sad seeing my dad.  He seems to be less and less joyful and much more in need of Christ. The problem is that so far he has not shown any interest at all in the Lord.  It has been somewhat chaotic, and our hope can remain in Him alone.  

Matty and I continue to pray for boldness, courage, and for the Lord to give us the right words at the right time.  We continue to live our lives for Him and serve them and love them as they are.  God is all powerful and oh so good.  Please do pray for us as we continue to shine His light in a very dark place.   Our lives are changing so much as we see so many needs and so much work to be done here in Honduras with our family.  We are not sure what our lives will be when we get back, but that is up to the Lord.  We do know that we want to be more purposeful in truly having a more eternal perspective.  We love the Lord so much and we have always desired to live for Him alone, but I think we realize how short we have fallen of living for Him and Him alone.  I think many times in the "comfortableness" that we live in in the United States that we become so very self-centered and numb to needs of others.  We have seen so much these past weeks and months that we have been here.

We thank the Lord for saving us, for loving us and for guiding us as we seek Him.  He is so very faithful and a solid rock in times of uncertainty and turmoil.  Thank you Lord for who you are and for the hope that we have in You.  Lead us on as YOU desire.