Sunday, December 6

I love Sundays; they’re so relaxed. I had a craving for coffee when I woke up and we had this great chocolate flavored kind so I made some; Kirsty came a little while and had had the same thought and brought a whole thing of coffee haha. I had downloaded some sermons from RezLife online so I listened to Jesse Duplantis in the morning and then we all just talked for a while around the table. I went outside for a bit to read and get some sun.The cleaning lady, Mati, who couldn’t come yesterday, came today and did she CLEAN the house. She cleaned the bathroom, our bedrooms, and living area very well, did the dishes and some of our laundry and only asked for 150 Lempiras ($7 USD) and she was there for about 2 hours or so. We gave her more of course, but it’s crazy how much people can live off of here, how much they make for their jobs, etc. We decided to take a try at making pizza today so Jacki made the dough and sauce and Kirsty and I cut up the veggies. I also had some extra time today so I studied some Spanish, learned and wrote down some more verbs; hopefully they stay in my head! Sometimes Spanish just overwhelms me and I think ‘I’m never going to get this language.’ But I guess I just need to practice and mess up a lot AND study. It comes so easy for Jacki and for some people, it’s like that. For me I think it comes pretty well, but I also think I have to study and practice more than she did. We ran out of gas in our stove halfway through the first pizza baking, so we ran down to Kirsty’s to finish the pizzas. They were so good and we were so proud of ourselves; but we will perfect it so it’s even better! Yesterday there had been a guy hiking up into Celaque we had said hi to and he was coming down the mountain this evening. He was from France and had spend the night in Celaque, so we offered him some pizza and chatted with him. It’s so cool to hear of people who just travel for a long time and that’s all they do. I love hearing people’s stories, where they’re from, what they do, where they’re going, and why. It’s just cool to randomly meet people like that. LB and I went to church after dinner and saw a shooting star or something burn across the sky for seconds…it was amazing! I am constantly in awe of the beauty of the place where I live; on clear days like today you could see the whole valley and mountains and mostly sunny sky and at night the sky is clear with tons of twinkling beautiful stars. I’m reminded of how big, powerful, creative, beautiful and amazing God is when I see these things and I’m so in awe and thankful to be where I am right now.