One week til Christmas!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year!! Christmas spirit is hitting us full force and we couldn’t be more excited to get to share it with family! The Lord has blessed us tons and tons and what we’re most grateful for is you guys – our wonderful friends and family!

We’re done with school – yay – but we want to share some of the Christmas play with you. It was adorable!!!!! The idea was that a little mouse family was telling the story of an American family and a Jewish family in Israel. At the end, the son of the Jewish family has to go to war, and they focus on the thought that no matter who you are or where you’re from, when you’re in war all you want is to go home. The message was for us to be grateful for what we have and to remember that though we’re fortunate enough to spend our Christmas with our friends and family, not everyone is. They showed a slideshow with some photos from Colombia, Iraq, and the Sudan reminding us to keep ourselves in prayer and to help those less fortunate than us.

(PS – if you would like to help a refugee from Sudan get to the States, you can send money to a World Harvest Church, http://www.rodparsley.com/, and he brings them over, but I think that time is running out because the Sudanese government is enacting legislation to prevent the refugees from leaving…)

Below are some of the photos from the play and there are many, many more on Dave’s website: http://community.webshots.com/user/virginiatechdave

Dave hurt his arm, here are his x-rays! He sprained his wrist playing soccer at the youth thing… but we are happy to report that at 8pm, clinics in Honduras are nothing to be scared of! Cheap and good, couldn’t be better! Paint was peeling a little on the walls, but the rooms were very clean, the instruments were sterile, and the staff was friendly and skilled. All in all, if you come visit us and we wound you, you will be ok! J And Dave’s wrist is healing nicely!

Also, thank you mom, Paul, and Papa for the package! We love everything in it, and just about everything edible in it is gone… heh… Ang – we got your card and I almost peed my pants, I was so happy to hear from you!

Liza left us!!!! Well, ok, she’s coming back, but she went to NY for the holidays. We miss her; having her cat live with us is ok, but Ceiba (her cat) is a poor substitute for Liza herself. We love you Liza!

Ok, I think that’s all for now, we love you guys and we’ll post again soon!!!

Long time, no post!

Hey all! I almost forgot how to type, it’s been so long since we’ve posted!!! MUCH has happened, so I’ll try and tell you about it, though it may not be in chronological order…

We spent a wonderful honeymoon at a resort on the beach called Helen’s. It’s right on the water and the upstairs suite is only about $40 a night. We relaxed all weekend and dreaded leaving…. It only we could be independently wealthy and not have to work… :)

This is the view from the private balcony in the suite at Helen's

We are almost done for 2007, only 2 weeks left in the school year and we find ourselves getting very attached to the students here as well as our coworkers. Our relationships are getting deeper and God is providing opportunities to minister in a variety of ways! Keep praying that He will open doors and allow us to love on them!

Dave preaching at chapel last Friday.

Some of our wonderfully energetic 7th graders!

We went to a soccer game last night with Megan and her 2 kids (she is a teacher at the school and also took Elizah and I to bible study). It was AWESOME! Our team from La Ceiba, Victoria, was taking on a team from Tegucigalpa. It was a 1-1 tie in the end, but tons of fun to watch! The people around us were screaming, cheering, running back and forth and setting off their own fireworks from the stands. A few drinks went flying, but we were doing well so it didn’t get too rowdy!

Adriana, Megan, Andrew, and I in the stands at half-time.

Right after Victoria scored a goal.

And most exciting of all… MY MOM IS COMING!!!!!!!! Yes, you read it right, my mom and Paul are coming to La Ceiba!!!!!!! :) Praise the Lord!!!! Thank you Papa! I can’t wait to see them and I’m in the process of making arrangements!!!!! If you would like to come too……. :)

Ok, enough for now, and we’ll try to be better about posting… sorry!
Love you all!
-Becky