Frogs

Here's our family singing at the Día de la Familia (Day of the Family) holiday at the school.

We had a 7.1 earthquake here in Honduras. By California standards this wasn't a big one, but here in Honduras nothing is built to withstand earthquakes. As you can see the damage was quite extensive. The Ministry of Education cancelled school in Honduras for 2 days.

My brother, Donathan, brought a mission team to Honduras. This team was unique in that it was comprised of parents and children. These kids from Calvary Chapel Vero Beach had a wonderful repore with the Honduran kids.

Here's Daddy Michael hanging out with Jayden during school.

Kids from Lago Yojoa school do their craft at the brother's VBS.

Lago Yojoa kids show off their puppets during the VBS time. They studied Noah's Ark.

Calvary Chapel Vero Beach kids lead the Lago Yoja School children in worship.

Donathan teaches the kids the story of Noah's Ark.

Singing for the older kids at the ophanage.

Here I am hanging out with the toddlers and preschoolers at the orphanage. We sang for them then Donathan told them the story of Noah's Ark and I translated into Spanish.

This little orphan fell in love with my brother. He hung on him for most of the time that we sang.

My brother Donathan and I share some music in the playground of the Pan American Orphanage. How do you like my rythm instrument. It's called the 5 gallon water bottle djembe.

We shared music and helped serve food to a few hundred children at Sister Maria's Soup Kitchen.

We just had our school science fair. My 2nd grade class did such a wonderful job presenting their projects. We made musical instruments made of disposible materials and then we experimented on what affect the sound and pitches of each instrument.

This is the video that was part of my 2nd graders science project. We had a lot of fun working on this.

This blog is titled FROGS so I should tell you why. My brother, PASTOR Donathan, took my kids and and the 6 kids on his mission team to go catch frogs one night. They filled the bucket with frogs. Then Dono and kids took the frogs over to Megan's and Heather's house (2 other teachers from our school), dumped the frogs in their house and then left. He thought they should experience what the Egyptians went through during the Frog Plague. Now how's that for a practical joke.

School is coming to an end. Next week we will be doing final exams.

May God richly bless you,
Michael, Golden, Avalon, Micah, Zachary and Jayden

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.