Each year we have the privilege to join with a local congregation in worship. Today we visited Emmanual Baptist Church (Iglesias Bautista imanuel), which is where one of the workers from La Providecia, Henry, attends. A great service where an American evangelist who is disabled preached a fantastic sermon from Luke about the rich man and Lazarus.
Continuing the wonderful tradition of eating at fantastic Honduran restaurants, we ate Villa Verde. Oh those tasty strawberry smoothies!
We then headed to the site. However, the tour at La Providencia took a turn for the worse when I was asked to give the tour as Marco had to meet with some others in preparation for the medical team. I only forgot a few essential details!
Probably the highlight of day was visiting the nursing home nearby that we have been to several times over the years. Several songs were sung together in Spanish with our elderly Hoduran friends. They even tried singing with us during the English songs. Afterwards we decorated them with many festive balloon animals, swords, and hats.
At least seven were there from the last time we visited. I am sure Megan will be happy to hear that two women were wearing her knitted caps from four years ago.
At dinner, Marco, our team liaison and the psychologist for La Providencia, shared a story about a mission trip to the Mosuito Coast of Honduras where primitive tribes live. One manner in which they show honor to visitors is to let them eat monkey brains. Yes, "eat monkey brains." The ceremony for this includes one visitor, in this instance it was Marco, to literally "scalp" the monkey while it is still alive and share the "tasty" brains with everyone else. Not a pleasant story to hear while eating but it did allow us the opportunity to give Marco the nickname, "El asasin de monos" (the Monkey Assasin).
The evening finished with a pill counting extravaganza in preparation of tomorrow's medical team.
Hannah was confident that there would not be a career in pharmaceuticals in her future.
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