Day 8, July 7, 2006

We're baaaack!

Tela was wonderful as you can see from the pictures.

Here's our best story from that beautiful place:

So, we're walking along a secluded beach in Punta Sal National Park, miles and miles from anywhere, no one else in sight. You have to travel by boat to get there, for Heaven's sake. Another launch arrives just as ours is leaving. A few of the people in the party are Korean, and we know Holy Cross Falls Church and St. Barnabas Annandale have a joint team in Tela - so Grayce takes a stab.

"Are you from Holy Cross?"

"YES!"

And that is how we met up with the mission team from St. Barnabas and Holy Cross.

They have been spending the week building, and they were happy with their results.

We met another mission team from Indiana who built two houses and a bridge in Chindo's area outside Copan. They told us that their one regret was not having enough time to spend with the people there.

We came "home" to Our Little Roses tonight just in time to play with the littlest girls and get them good and riled up before their bed time. We felt guilty until we realized that they had already planned a slumber party for tonight, and bedlam was the order of the evening, with or without us!

Our favorite image of the evening: four of the tiniest lined up on a couch, in matching giant T-shirts, singing a word-perfect rendition of the Pharoah song, complete with Juliana's choreography.

We were thinking of the construction projects of our new missionary friends, and the various building projects that we have completed. And we talked about another kind of building that is equally important - and in some ways more so. That's the building of relationships. Tonight we employed one of the most important tools in relationship-building - pure, unaldulterated whooppee!