Tuesday--Day One of Work

Dear Friends, Families and Benefactors,
It´s Tuesday afternoon and we are all tired! It´s been a great first day. We started the day with prayers and Mass with Fr Juan Diego (Fr Dye celebrated Mass for the Franciscan Brothers in the Friary). We ate pancakes with bananas and watermelon for breakfast.

The Adventures in Faith team drove over to a neighboring parish, Mary Queen of the Apostles. There were 35 children sitting and waiting for us.

Within a few minutes of us starting we had 75 children. Today´s theme was the Annunciation of Mary. Stan and Kate did the skit of the annunciation and then had two of the children repeat the skit. They also made a bracelet and played some games lead by one of the Friars, Br. Juan Maria. The Adventure in Faith team headed back to where we stay, Casa Guadalupe for lunch and to prepare to do the same program for the children of the boys and girls´orphanage.

The work team decided that the whole team would start sanding and painting the four dorms at La Granja (the farm which is the boys´ orphanage). Some of the orphan boys helped our team out. With such a large team, the painting was almost finished today. The Honduran people are so beautiful inside and out! The children are so filled with enthusiasm for the Lord, and interest in their strange looking visitors. We sang, we danced, we laughed, we hugged and communicated whether we spoke Spanish or not! The Friars added their special talents in game making and music making to the program which was a great success. The men commented that the Honduran boys are some of the hardest working people they´ve ever seen. The young men left some paint bruhes out while they broke to eat lunch, and when they came back from lunch the whole side of the wall was finished and the paint was all gone! We´re off to such a great start. Thank you for all of your prayers. The Mary Our Queen Mission Team.+