Hola. Greetings from San Pedro Sula, the second largest city in Honduras. We´re sitting in a cyber cafe (where we got frisked at the door by a man who seemed to be a policeman) waiting for the banco to open so we can change our dollars to lempiras. Right now the exchange rate is 17.56 lempiras to one U.S. dollar, and the cyber cafe is 10 lempiras for one hour. Not too bad.
We had a really good time in Melbourne with our friends talking about how our time in Las Mangas will look.
It was one of those conversations that entering into is much more strenuous and complicated than leaving. We had had some misunderstandings between us, and being with the folks in Florida gave us all a chance to affirm our love for each other as fellow believers and freely get everything on the table. Praise the Lord. It´s amazing how good this process has been for us together and as individuals -- all the lessons the Spirit is teaching us about trusting him, not worrying, and how perfect love casts out fear. More on this later, I´m sure.
Trying to get around the country
so far has reinforced how important language acquisition will be. Kelly has been brave in trying to communicate -- and we´re getting around mostly because of her. But we are looking forward to focusing on being students for our next month in the country. We definitely have much to learn.
In about an hour we will walk the two blocks from our hotel to the bus station in order to catch our 10:00 bus into La Ceiba. When we got to our hotel room yesterday the Honduras This Week magazine was waiting for us (in English) on our bed. One of the front page stories was about how several buses were attacked in broad daylight last Saturday by angry gang members apparently acting on behalf of rival transportation businesses. About 10 people were killed in this incident.
...but we will trust in the name of the Lord our God...
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