My Experience in Honduras - part 1

Hi Friend! 

It's been a couple of months since I've returned to the U.S. from Honduras, but I still wanted to give the photos a permanent spot on this blog. I'm making them into a series or else this post will be forever long. lol. 

Let's start from the very beginning.....

 

It was my first time flying outside the U.S. and Honduras is such a beautiful country to fly over with its mountains and vast fields. 

I lived in a gated community in Santa Rita, Yoro. The guardhouse is that little building which was right in front of my house. 

The gate. A guard stayed at the guardhouse 24/7.

A panoramic of the inside of my house.

The Scenery:

Everywhere you look you can see beauty - the mountains.

One Saturday we attended a conference near the beach. 

This is outside a mall.

The sunsets never ceased to awe me. 

This was one of the stores we shopped at - La Colonia. That's a guard stand in the middle of the parking lot. 

Standing in a Texaco gas station near the school, you can look out and see the school/church building off in the distance.

This is the view from the porch of the school.

This next picture was taken a few months later. The grass turned brown from lack of rain.

These houses are across from the school/church. 

Honduran Food:

My housemates and I made tortillas one night for supper. They turned out thick, but okay. :) 

This was a sampler of chicken: barbecue, tenders, and something I think was the equivalent of wings.

This was one of our first meals: A Pupusa. It tasted like a corn tortilla with slightly cooked cheese inside. Not the best, to be honest. In my opinion, Honduran cheese does not taste good. 

This dish is missing some ingredients, but it's plantain chips on the bottoms, then meat, cheese (optional), pickled onions (so yummy!), cabbage, and a salsa mixture Hondurans make which is called pico de gallo, I think. We often ate this during Sunday school because it's so easy to put together. The fried plantains called tajadas are another good food. 

Rio Grande:

On Wednesday January 10, Kara, her sister (who visited for a week), another friend named Stacey, and I went for a boat ride on the Rio Grande in a boat similar to the one pictured below. So fun!

This river was fast flowing and sometimes we swam in it. 

Scenes from my neighborhood: 

Almost, if not all the houses there have bars on the windows and most have a gate/wall around the house. But people are very friendly there. You can just stand outside someone's house and yell 'hola' or if their gate/fence is open and they're outside, you can walk in and talk. 

Walking down the road in my neighborhood to the Pulperia.

This and the next picture shows 2 different Pulperias. Pulperias are individually owned, usually part of someone's house, and they sell drinks, food, soap, cleaning supplies, all the basics. If you need something quick, pulperias usually have it. Every neighborhood has them and different ones may sell different items. One pulperia I stopped by sold homemade chocolate bananas which were just the best. 

Saturday witnessing

Every Saturday morning people from the church would meet, the pastor would share a devotional thought, then we would head out in different groups to different communities and walk to each house, passing out tracts and engaging people in conversations about God and the gospel. Like I said before, people are very friendly and are willing to stand and talk. I've gone door-to-door witnessing on Saturdays in the States before and most of the time no one was home, they didn't want to talk, or they didn't answer the door. Hondurans are different in that they spend most of their time outside, swinging in their hammocks, working, cooking, chatting with neighbors, etc. 

One group I particularly enjoyed going with always went to the country and sometimes to the mountain country. 

My sweet sister-friend Alexa. This adorable baby was at a house we visited.

Another sister-friend, Brinis.

The owners of this house had many animals. There was a hen walking around with her chicks...and a duckling! It was the cutest thing to watch. 

Here's a short video. (If you're viewing this post on your email click here to watch the video.)

The Town:

To get around a lot of people ride in 3-wheeled cars called Motor Taxis. They are pro at weaving in and out in traffic in the town. lol. Here's a short video. (If you're viewing this post on your email, click here to view the video on the blog.)

Paintings:

Often after work my housemate-friends and I would paint, sometimes while we watched a movie. These are some paintings I did. This next one is a painting of a picture I took of the sunrise. 

To end this first post here are pictures taken on the return trip to America.

Revelation 14:6-7 ~ And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.