We’re still recovering here from back-to-back busyness. Celeste spent 4 days at a wonderful retreat sponsored by Women of Purpose. The group has started coming from West Virginia twice a year to encourage missionaries in Honduras and it’s something we really look forward to. Just so refreshing to have this time with other women who walk the same path.
Then Harold spent 5 days with the oldest girls at a basketball tournament in San Pedro Sula. It was a challenge to be responsible for 10 girls for that long of a time. The highlight of the tournament for our girls was a game played against Freedom Academy. In the last minutes of the game Pinares was down by 3 points and at the buzzer Charis took a 3 point shot-and made it! The game went into it’s first overtime. Harold tried hard to get the screaming girls back into the game- they were so excited. Then the girls’ friend Ana went to plant her feet for a charge, but had her hands behind her back . She was knocked over and fell on her hands, breaking her wrist. So Ana was out of the game (and the tournament) as it went into a second overtime. A four quarter game became a 6 quarter game and the girls lost by just 2 points.
On the way home, the cable connecting the accelerator on the bus went out. The driver rigged it and tried to handle holding the cable while driving-Harold quickly vounteered to be the accelerator for him. For two hours he pulled the cable uphill and let it go on the down. They stopped for lunch and Harold traded places with someone else who volunteered for the job. (It brought back lots of memories of our green bus and the days of popping off the engine cover to rig something.) They came home tired and smelling of diesel fuel.
Now I am tackling the challenge of mounds of laundry, emptying suitcases and returning things to their place, plus the things that were let go during these busy weeks. Next week we’ll celebrate Thanksgiving-if there’s no power out we can even watch the parade and the weather has been cool and wet like the states. But regardless of where I am I can give thanks.
-for the cool weather to sleep at night, for clean laundry on the line, floors swept,reading books with my baby girl,visit from Arielle, finding sweet potatos at the market, basil grown sweet and tall, coleus and jasmine rooting in ice cream buckets,a Christmas tree soon to be decorated, anticipating time with family