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| John with his Villanueva girls |
New Year's Day found us winging our way from freezing Tulsa to flipflop Honduras. Our preference is to tolerate the rain and mud there during this, the rainy season, in favor of less sweat. As you can see in all the fotos, definitely was warm enough to remind us we had returned to the tropics.
We coordinated our arrival to coincide with our old neighbors, the Merritts, so got to catch up with them on the flight down and the 5 hr. ride out to the hospital.
We spent our 2 weeks visiting hospital staff, village folk, and church friends. Shared many tortillas, several meals of "here's looking at you" fried fish, fresh pineapple. The biggest accomplishment of our time there was to finalize all plans for Joni's entry into a large city bilingual school. That was no small venture, as its over an hour away over horrifically potholey roads, and we had to borrow vehicles. Joni (17) began Tuesday as an audit student for the next 2 quarters, to catch up in Math and English. It deserves a blog of its own, so stay tuned for "He has a Dream"!
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| Don Pablo's self-styled new home-he is faithfully repaying the loan that allowed him to put his family all under one roof. |
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| Unexpected surprise on arrival was to find Drs. Shaw and Sharon Yount and their 2 girls visiting., who were there when we arrived in 2004. Here is a foto of the Vintage Missionaries- Reunion! |
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| Seminary student, Anael, visiting with John in the new Sunday School classroom. |
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| Another unexpected surprise- got to accompany friend Ritza during the birth of her second baby, a boy. She was one of the first Honduran nurses to join us over 10 years ago. |
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| Recently returned from Italy, where she went to work, Olga and Renan are now planning to marry later this year. Her absence convinced him he wanted to be a father and a husband, and they are now coming to church as a family. |
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| Lisa, Mom of the Boys Home, being loved on by Prodigal Jose, recently returned from a foray back on the streets chasing crack. Pray for him. |
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| Some of our nurses at change of shift. |
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| The bridge reconstruction has begun, almost 12 years after the accident that cost 2 lives. |
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| Estelle and Julia Barnett, ex-Tulsaites, back for the 2015 school year of El Camino School. |
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| "My, what big eyes you have!" |
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| Our hostes with the mostest! Doli treated us to a feast. |
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Instead of a breezeway to protect one from rain as they exit the plane or walk out
on the tarmac, a handy basket of umbrellas awaits the passengers! |
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| Kind of tiny! |
