Honduras Trip Part 1

The first thing we did when we landed in Honduras was go to the mall to get the 63 pairs of shoes for the boys at Jovenes. Thanks to the Bristow Church of Christ for their donation of the shoes. The sizing of the shoes was a little difficult as the house parents just traced around each kids footprint and then cut it out for us to find the correct size. I think it took about three hours for all the sizes to be found. One of my goals before Christmas is to find one of the metal shoe sizers to send to them so next time they will have it. I think that will make things so much easier.

One of the pictures is Rachel with all the shoes at Jovenes. The other one is one of my favorites. I don't know if you can tell by the picture, but this is one of the boys trying on the new shoes with his old pair sitting right beside him with the front completely tore off of it.

Here's a little story of our trip to Jovenes I'd like to share. It brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it. First of all, the kids hadn't been told we were going to be bringing shoes to them. The directors of Jovenes wanted it to be a surprise for them, and so as we arrived we wanted to walk around and see where everything was, as we were walking some kids met us and Will and Rachel started talking to them a little bit asking how they were and everything. As they walked off Rachel told us they said "you all have such nice shoes" it left me speechless. These little kids probably six or seven years old noticed how nice our shoes were. To us our shoes were ones that were pretty old and worn, but to these boys they were really nice. Precious kids!

One of the other things we got to do was take seven laptops for the boys. This last picture is the old computer lab at Jovenes. They now have seven laptops that we were able to deliver to them from Dudley. I think they will get great use out of them and I'm so glad we were able to be a part of getting them down there.

Where to Start

I've got a lot of updating to do so I'm going to go in the order I remember everything. The middle of September Jack broke his little finger in Bible class. They had finished up the lesson and were playing a game and a kid went to block Jack's throw and broke his finger. Jack was a little excited at first about having a cool cast, but that soon wore off. It was a water proof cast so that really helped with bathing. He was able to continue playing flag football. The orthopedic center we went to fitted him for a foam hand to wear around his cast so he could play without hurting anyone. He wore the cast for three weeks and the doctor said it didn't look so good when the cast was removed so we went back two weeks later to see if he needed to have surgery and he said it had straightened up like it should so no surgery! Yeah! When I was in Honduras was when he was suppose to have the cast removed so Jonathan took him. Jack was so ready to get it off and had been pretty cranky with it on. Since Jon changed jobs we had new insurance and he forgot the new insurance card and they wouldn't take it off without paying cash for it $300, so they had to reschedule for the next day. Poor Jack, from what I hear he was pretty upset with Dad. I flew in that night and was able to take him the next day to get it removed, so he didn't have to wait too much longer.