Feeling prayers

It's me again! Jake says that he has a great blog post planned from this past week's trip to Siguatepeque. But, all day yesterday and now today again he has been down in the maintenance taller (mechanic shop) swapping out the transmission on the Exploder. So, in other words, he is currently ocupado, but once he is finished, his blog post will be forthwith delivered. He mentioned this morning that it was Nov 15th when the transmission went out. Three months, and we are giddy to be back on the road again. Thank you to everyone that remembered the Exploder in your thoughts and prayers. We are both ready to return to the freedom and protection provided by a vehicle on these roads.

Interesting fact about moto riding in Honduras. About a month ago a law was passed that all moto riders have to be wearing a reflective vest when on the roads. I asked the techs in the OR, if they were going to adhere to this new law. They immediately responded yes in a way that told me there wasn't another option for them. The fine, they explained, for not wearing a vest is 660 lempiras (about $25 USD). Not worth the cost. Our protective jackets (which we sent down via the container with the moto itself) have hi vis reflective patches, so we just wear the jacket whenever we leave the hospital compound via moto.

Interesting question I received the other day from an individual who was part of one of our recent teams (we've been blessed by many medical/surgical teams lately). Finishing up the long surgical week, he asked me, "so what do you do around here on the weekends?" An innocent question, to which I almost awkwardly answered, "probably the same thing you do on the weekends at your home." We catch up on all the things that we couldn't address during the week. We field calls from the hospital (in my case) or calls from other missionaries about something being broken (in Jake's case) and do our best to tackle the constantly growing To Do List. Email-sending, calendar-scheduling, house-cleaning, food-prepping, and most important of all Sabbath-keeping. Taking some precious time to sit and be calm and quiet, has become very important to us both. If we can take a cup of coffee while doing so, even better.

Jake and Josh (GS resident visiting for a month) hard at work on the Exploder!

Much Love.