More Miqueas

It has been raining here for almost 36 hours. It is my first serious rain experience in Honduras. Here at Mission Miqueas we are technically in a village outside of the town, El Progreso. Being in a village makes us susceptible to shoddy electricity in the rain. Our power was out all night the night before last, and last night from about 7 until 11pm. Aside from this inconvenience, when it rains here .... it is GLORIOUS. It's cool and refreshing outside - practically the perfect temperature; an awesome break from the 100+ degree weather we were having before this rain.

The day before the rain started (it began Sunday night) Mary and I were lucky to tag along when Walker (full time tutor) had to take Walter, the oldest boy here at Miqueas, back to school. Walter was struggling with behavior and grades at all the schools he was placed in within El Progreso, so Melody and Jacob sent him to a strict boarding school in Peña Blanca. There, he is doing SO well. He has good grades, friends, and is excelling. Walter had come home for the weekend that Mary and I arrived, so we had the opportunity to hang out with him and get to know him a little bit before he had to go back. He is 13 and has 4 siblings and a nephew here. He is such a sweet kid!

Peña Blanca is a beautiful little town up in the mountains and Mary told me that R.O.O.M. works with an awesome children's home there called Pan American that works with malnourished children. ROOM has been there many times, and one of the most recent was to drop off TOMs shoes for the kids. Near there is a beautiful lake, Yojoa, and Walker took us there to see it! Since there were three newbies in the car (Mary, Lauren, and I) Walker took us on a drive through several small towns there to see what they are like. We went to El Mochito, which is home to one of the biggest and richest mines in Central America. He explained that the mine was responsible for all the paved roads in the town, since most mountain villages have one paved road at best. It was an awesome tour, and the mountains are SO beautiful here. It was the first time I'd been really cool in a while (hard to believe that there are blizzards at home in the States), and then after we got home it began to rain. Praise God for this cool reprieve from the heat.