Update!

Hello from Honduras! This has been a fantastic week in the Cloud Forest! There are a couple of areas in Honduras, the Ranch area being one of them, that is referred to as Cloud Forest sometimes because of the overwhelming amount of fog that sometimes envelops the mountains. It is a beautiful site to see, so hopefully I can get a good pic of that sometime! On to the good stuff!

PICTURES!

Career Day
http://jsu.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2027835&l=4868f&id=156800196
Unfortunately, our internet has been realllllly, reallllly slow over the past few days, and out of about 10 tries today to upload pictures, one of them has been successful. So, I am sorry for not having more pictures.

COMMUNITY OUTREACH
This week was probably the most interesting week of Community Outreach so far, especially for the Bible club part with the kids. Our “puppet show” this week was Job: The Musical. Picture it--- puppets, north Americans singing with puppets, north Americans who speak very little Spanish singing with puppets--- and who was I? The voice of God. I’m not sure if the kids really even knew what we were doing, but we attempted great things for the Lord that day. My favorite line, “Puede probar a Job, pero no lo mates,” or “You can test Job, but you can’t kill him.” Anyhow, I think it was a great success, and whether or not they understood it all, I’m not sure, but they were definitely entertained.
The music went very well too. The kids really, really love to sing and sing strong and loud, and even do all of the hand motions! It is way too cool! Next week we are planning on doing the story of Joseph with puppets and also do tie-dye t-shirts. Should be fun!

VISITING TEAM
This week we had an awesome visiting team from the Chicago area of Illinois. Some of them were from Geneva, Illinois, so that was easy to remember! This team was a construction team so they stayed here on the Ranch and did lots of work to help out. One of the ladies did lots of sewing of pillows, curtains, etc. The men helped out a lot finishing some of the minor details at the school including sanding down and varnishing all of the doors at the school. They also helped put up a fence behind the end of the campo that has the children’s playground. It has always been a danger because kids are playing at the bottom of the hill and soccer balls that miss the net sometimes get very close. So, the fence will help out tremendously in that area! The team left this morning on their way back to the states.

CAREER DAY
This week was the school’s annual Career Day. We had the kids split up like we normally do for Chapel, with the younger kids down at the school and the older kids up in the Bodega. The younger kids had several different guest speakers, including some of the visiting team members, to come and talk to them about the different jobs that they can have when they grow up, including police man, nurse, etc… From what I heard, the kids really enjoyed it and asked lots of really funny questions.
The older kids had Mrs. Cecilia speak to them about different universities in Honduras, and the different degrees that are offered at each of them. Mrs. Cecilia is our Spanish teacher as well as the lady who helps our kids in the area of Social Work. She was very informative to the kids, and helped them to understand even more the important things that will count when they get ready to make that step into college and choosing a career.

HAMMOCK IN THE SHADE
I have to share this because it’s just the most relaxing thing I do now. Jason has a hammock out on our back porch that overlooks a lot of the forest around us. I have, only recently, begun to take advantage of this luxury we have and spend some of my free time relaxing in the hammock and reading. Just this past week, I finished reading a great book by Rocky McElveen called Wild Men, Wild Alaska. Rocky is a professional guide in rural Alaska. He gives guided tours to lots of people, including our former President Bush, Sr, Franklin Graham, and lots of other well-known people. Anyhow, the book is a collection of his favorite stories and guides with different people- some famous, some regular Joe’s. The stories are absolutely wonderful, but more than that, he spends a lot of time talking about how God has given him this occupation to get to be a missionary to so many people that come there to “get away” from their normal environments, or “discover” themselves. He is a very good Christian man, has come close to death several times in the wilderness, but knows that God has blessed him and his career immensely. So, there is my book review of the month for ya! And, if you need to relax, come visit our hammock in the shade, and bring a good book.

The other stuff
Graduation day and getting to come home for a while is getting very close! I am very excited about both of those things! The kids at school are going to do some “musical” things at graduation, including playing hand bells! It’ll be a great time!
Last night was a fun time-- we had a few of the other teachers over and played Pictionary! It was sooo funny and I think we were heard across the ranch. Today I am going to be working on my presentation for when I am home and hopefully design a new prayer card! We’ll see how that goes!

God bless you all! Thank you so much for everything and I will see you soon!!!

God Bless!
-Jesse Tiner
World Gospel Outreach
http://www.wgoreach.org