Honduras 2012 - Day 4-6

So I'm really bad at this blogging every night thing.  It definitely isn't working.  And I don't remember what happened three days ago to go back and do them all in detail, so here goes nothing...

Basically, our plan coming down here was to go into a community, spread the news of Jesus Christ, and get information on families to provide them with necessary supplies, such as food, shampoo, toothpaste, toothbrush, etc.  Then on the next day, we would go to a safe location in the area that the people could get to and set up all of our stations for giving out supplies and also providing a children's church and adult church service.

The first community we went to was in the area of the house we built for Leonel.  In the blog for day three, I told about going door to door there.  And on day 4, we went to a local school to have services/give out supplies.  It was quite hectic, but the first time always is.  We had quite an experience with trying to play soccer.  It turns out the got into literal fights over the soccer balls.  Oops.  And for some reason, our soldiers never showed up. :/ There must be something political going on, because apparently none of them are answering their phones and they are not able to contact them.  So without soldiers, things are hectic.  We don't really have anyone to keep people out of areas where they are not supposed to be.  So trying to get in and out of the classrooms was nearly impossible.  Oh, and my little friend Kevin from last year was there. It was sooooo good to see him.  He still gives the best hugs in the entire world.  I just wish he would have brought his brothers.

The second community we went to was probably the poorest of the poor in Choluteca.  But man was it rewarding.  My favorite story of the day of evangelism... We arrived at this one house where they were selling snacks and drinks (this is common in Honduras.)  Upon approaching them, they were interested in getting our supplies and such, but did not want to hear about the gospel.  But of course, we started a conversation with them.  It was a kind of older gentleman and woman.  When we started talking about God, the man got up and left, but we were still able to talk to the woman.  She listened, nodded, and talked back to us, but if I remember correctly, she was not ready to accept Christ.  So we got her information to give her the supplies she needed, and moved onto the next house.  We came upon the older man, who had left the last conversation, and two younger guys, I'd say around the age of 20.  They all shared with us that they had not accepted Christ, but had been "baptised" when they were younger.  After talking with them for quite some time, their hearts were definitely softened.  You could just sense it in their tone of voice and their expressions.  When asking them if they wanted to be saved, they accepted.  After praying with the first younger guy, the second one accepted.  We then asked the older gentleman, he smiled so big and told us that he prayed in his heart with the second of the two boys.  What a change of heart in such a short amount of time.  God is good.