I don't think we're in Kansas anymore Toto!

      Honduras after just a months observation is a country of great contrasts. Beautiful Spanish style houses right next or across the street to a mud hut. Beautiful mountain vistas, exotic flowers and tall majestic palm trees with litter and animal feces strewn dirt streets running throughout. The people are friendly and laugh with us at our feeble attempts to communicate with them but most of them will steal and cheat you blind if you turn your back. But I've also known many North Americans who do the same. They are very bureaucratic with their paper work but corrupt in practice with everything seeming to run on the bribery system.Armed guards (and I do mean armed-shotguns and machine guns) are everywhere yet you'll see a little 3 or 4 year old girl walking down the streets all by herself. You can buy drugs in the pharmacies over the counter which you can't in the states but the hospitals shelves will be empty. We may complain about the high cost of our medical care but at least we have it. These people are desperate for medical care. I'm trying to learn not to rely on anything because the electricity or the Internet provider will go down just when you wanted it most. The climate, food, and culture are definitely not New England but I'm beginning to adjust a little at a time as I watch a Gecko crawl down our kitchen window. Jen O'brien arrives on the 10th like well needed reinforcements, teachers report on the 16th and I'll have a better handle on what's happening. They want me to do devotions for the teachers and help make the Bible a bigger part of the school. Classes start Sept. 1 and the adventure truly begins.Children are the key. Perhaps along with teaching them English, we can introduce them to Jesus and His love, righteousness and justice and it may begin to have a small impact on the country.  Thank you for all your prayers and support.