What a Rockin' Month

We have had such a rockin' busy month. Serving the Lord is so awesome. Never a dull moment.

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Here was are celebrating Ramón's birthday. Ramón was so sick last month. He had thrown up for 5 days straight and his parents had to take him to a specialist in San Pedro.

Last month we had to fire our caregiver for Jayden. She was stealing from us, the other teachers and our neighbors when we weren't home. Needless to say we finally caught her in the act and let her go. Now we bring Jayden to school with us. He wanders around the classroom and plays with the students water bottles and erasers. Does he look like he's distracting the students?

Oh, he might be distracting but he's so cute. Actually, my class is getting used to him being there.

Michael's been teaching the Romans Road in Bible class. This is one of the illustrations he had on the white board. The kids all copied this in their Bible notebooks.

This month Karen Lafferty (author of the music to Seek Ye First) came to Honduras. She and her team from YWAM put on a 3 week worship conference for the Honduran locals. Michael and I taught music classes in the conference. Michael taught guitar. I taught vocal classes and music theory. My Dad happened to be here at the time the conference was happening so he taught sound classes and we lead worship together.

Michael teaching guitar classes.

Here's me teaching one of my vocal classes.

Here's my Dad and I leading worship during one of the general sessions.

Here's video of my Dad and I leading worship at the Worship Conference.

One of my second grade students, Laura, invited us over to her house for the afternoon. She has 4 dogs, 2 cats, a turtle, a bunny, and a bird.

One of Jayden's favorite passtimes is playing in the mud. He has all these toys in the house yet he chooses the mud. Asi es la vida! (That's life!)

Prayer Request: We are in the home stretch with the school. Please pray that we can finish strong. This month until the end of school will be the busiest we have ever been. Please pray that we can balance it all and still have time to be parents to our kids.

I Couldn't Think of a Good Title for this Blog

In a land where resources aren't available, you use whatever you have. Here we are leading worship at our little Calvary Chapel Peña Blanca, Michael on guitar and me playing the 5 gallon water bottle djembe. It actually sound pretty good. -Golden

Here's Michael teaching a guitar class to some of the Honduran locals. I'm translating. Our kids are playing in the background.

One of the ways I teach my kids how to speak English is by having them participate with Blue Clues videos. They think it's just pure fun. But it's really helping their understanding of English.

Micah and Zachary swimming in the river with their Honduran friend.

We can only stay in Honduras 90 days at a time. So, we went to Florida to renew our visas. While we were there we visited my brother. Between our 2 families we have 7 children.

While the rest of us went back to Honduras, Avalon went to visit Grandpa Evan and Grandma Sherry in MO. Here we are melting in the heat of Honduras, while Avalon's freezing in the snow in MO. She returns to Honduras with my parents on April 14th.

Here's video of our family singing a Spanish Praise song at my brother's church in FL.

Here's video of me teaching Jayden how to swim.

I found my friend, Keri, from my gymnastics years. She tagged me in this photo. I'm the one on the far right. I'm 13 years old.

What's the Gift?

Most of us know that the free gift of God is enternal life, but many of the kids we teach don't. I love how Michael explains to them about the free gift of God. Bible is definitely a class favorite.

Our children playing with their friends.


Here I am having music class with the prepa students.

The other day I was driving with one of the other teachers and the brakes on the car ceased to function. I was going downhill and there was a large truck in front of me. I've never had my life flash before me, but this time I really thought I might die. I looked around for things that I could crash into, maybe the truck in front of me, maybe the bus station, maybe I could drive the car into the ditch to the right. Then it occured to me I could try the emergency brake. By the grace of God I was eventurally able to come to a stop using the emergency brake. I destroyed what was left of the already failing breaks on the car and there was smoke everywhere. But we were alive. The other teacher and I sat down on the side of the road, pulled our panicked selves together and thanked God that he brought us to a safe stop.

Thank you so much for all your prayers and support. May God richly bless you as we serve Him together!

In His Grip,
Michael, Golden, Avalon, Micah, Zachary and Jayden