It's that special time of year again when Pete, Audrey & Austin all dream of warmer weather and not because they can't wait till spring (although that is certainly true!)
It is time for their mission's trip to Honduras!! This is their third trip to this Central American country and they can't wait! Last night Audrey went to the packing meeting... they bring pot luck dinner and pack up bag after bag of medicines, vitamins, clothes & supplies to take with them to give to the people who come to the clinics! She said so far they have thirteen 50 pound bags!
This is one of the clinics from a previous trip.... as you can see, this church had no walls or partial walls made from tarps! The people are geniunely thankful and for most of them, this is the only time in the year where they will see a doctor or dentist. I know that wouldn't break some of our hearts, but if it wasn't by choice it would be different I'm sure!
They leave on the 21st of January for Boston and fly out around 5PM to Houston, TX. They will have fun sleeping at the airport (NOT) and leave there in morning for
San Pedro Sula, Honduras and then have about a 2 hour ride by vehicle into the village that they use as 'home base'. Needless to say, they'll be excited and exhausted when they arrive!
PLEASE keep them all in prayer.... they have a team of eight people going this year!
(Pete, Audrey, Austin, Roger, Sue, John, Debbie & Ron)
Here is the team... front is Daniel (Honduran dentist and nephew of Paz) and Debbie. Standing middle row L to R is Zeke (Honduran friend) Roger, Ron, Sue, & Paz (Honduran Dentist & church planter) and the back row L to R is Austin, John, Pete and Audrey!
Pete, Roger, Ron, Zeke and Austin are preparing some of the medicines for the clinic. They bring down Sharpies & snack baggies to write on and give out the antacid, vitamins & antibiotics etc. They also had liquid medicines; cough syrup, paracite medicine and liquid tylenol & vitamins for babies! In the picture below you can see Debbie talking with one of the mothers and her young son. They told me that of a man that had had a broken leg for about a month, but with no money and no way to see a doctor, he just had to deal with it. They were able to get to him and help bring him back to the clinc so that he could see the doctor. His leg was swollen, darkened and you could see the break. I'm not sure what happened with this man... he obviously needed surgery. The team had it set up for him to go to a hospital, but I'm not sure of the outcome. What a blessing it was to each of the team members to be in Honduras! Debbie had brought her laptop with her along with the clayanimation movie of Jesus in Spanish!! She set it up and the children flocked to see the moving pictures! (And the adults too!) They had NEVER seen a television, never mind a computer before! They were the first in their families & village to see such a thing! This tool was awesome in sharing the gospel! 
We traveled out for about 2 hours which translates into approximately 25 miles. On the ride we saw a pod of around 70 white-sided dolphins swimming & jumping around 
and then we saw 5-6 fin whales blowing & surfacing for us!! It was incredible!!
AND THEN WE SAW HIM.... 
a beautiful (if that is possible) humpback whale! He is known as Tigris and he was born in 1984 making him 25 years old. He was in an amazingly playful mood and he kept us all entertained for probably an hour!! 
He would surface & blow and dive under the boat ... bumping it a couple of times for fun, and then come up on the other side of the boat!! He was so close that we could feel the spray as he blew a couple of times!! :) 
He dove a couple of times and lifted his tail out of the water for us to see!! Eventually, we had to leave this amazing spot and head back to shore. We were out from 2-7:30PM and watched a gorgeous sunset!! WOW doesn't even begin to describe this trip!! 
