As I mentioned in the last post, Thursday night was our last night of evangelism. We had a terrific time at Suyapa’s house celebrating our week with the Honduran teens we met. They are an amazing group of young people who are so on fire for God. What an encouragement they were to all of us! Suyapa, of course, made some amazing food. Her daughter, Keyla, made some of the food as well. What a treat! There was cake there…thought about the retaliation on Jesse, but I think I’ll keep making him wait. I’ll catch him more off guard in New York when he comes home for debrief! J
For our last night of evangelism, we went to a neighborhood where the local teens have not evangelized so much yet. All of the neighborhoods we’ve been in this week are full of gangs and drug dealers. We always travel in groups when we go. God was certainly with us—always—as our Protector! This last evening of evangelizing was a highlight for me. Each of our STEPpers shared the Gospel message with several people…of course in Spanish. I’m so proud of them! They are working hard with the language and it takes a lot of courage to evangelize to complete strangers, especially in this setting. Our STEPpers are an amazing group of young people! Although the “week of evangelism” in our STEP program is complete this week, our team desires to continue to meet with these local teens during the balance of the program here and continue to evangelize. Praise God!
After our late night on Thursday night, we had an early start to our day on Friday. We left Tegucigalpa around 7:00 a.m. for our 3-4 hour drive to the waterfall park—Pulhapanzak. What an awesome day! It was a great day for the entire team to just have fun together after a challenging week. When we arrived at the park, we hiked a trail to view the falls. Then, we started off with a zip-line tour.
There were 11 “stops” on the zip-line tour. ALL of us did the tour. What a great time! The final line went over the falls. It was beautiful! After the zip line, most of us took the challenge of doing the hike behind the falls. I don’t think I’ve ever done anything like this before! It was AMAZING and CRAZY…all at the same time! We hiked along the falls for a bit and then walked/swam through portions of the water at the base of some of the smaller falls. Once we reached the huge falls, we linked hands and walked under/behind them! You couldn’t ask for a better team building activity! J It was intense! The water was just crashing down on us! You end up in a small cave. We took a short break there and then had to go back the way we came! As we got to the smaller falls area, those who wanted to jumped off of a 10 ft. cliff into the water below. Of course…I wanted to. That was just preparation for the big 25 ft. cliff jump at the end! At the end of the hike, some of us took the plunge and jumped from that 25 ft. cliff—breathtaking!! When I looked down, I thought, “I can do this,” but once I took that first step and was falling, I thought, “what am I doing!?” I’m so glad I did it though!
After our water adventure, we had some lunch before driving back to Tegucigalpa. The sun was setting towards the end of our drive home. The sky was just beautiful—enjoy the pictures! We topped off our day with dinner out at “El Gordo’s” (gordo means fat in Spanish—how’s that for a name for a restaurant!?). Thanks to an anonymous donor who provided the funds for our team dinner! We spent some time reflecting on the highlights for everyone for our week. It was an awesome time sharing together.
Saturday morning we’re planning to visit El Picacho City Park to do some hiking and see a statue of Jesus Christ overlooking the city and then Kim and I will be heading to the airport to return home to the States.
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