Hola! Day1-3

Hola Amigos y Familia! We are doing well in Honduras! We hope and pray that you also are well and growing in the Lord! We had a wonderful day of travel with happy munchkins on the flight over from Houston and then the 15 minute flight over from Roatan over the ocean to La Cieba, Honsuras to meet Mr. Joel. The short flight was quite an experience. It was a 10 passenger airplane and two of them were the pilots that set right in front of Carson, Abigail and I....we could touch them...wierd, but very cool! Carson loved it! We wore Andrew out and thus he took a short nap on the way to La Cieba. I wish that I could upload the pics to go along with our days adventures but I guess I will just have to try to be as descriptive as I can as I paint you some pictures of our adventures. Mr. Joel was at the airport when we arrived,. What a joy to see him and love on him! We all loaded up in a mid-sized 4 door Toyota pickup (all the luggage in the back) and headed to get some dinner....at Pizza Hut....they have a Pizza Hut in Honduras...surprise, surprise!! The boys were elated to see that it had a playplace and an indoor soccer play area. The neat thing was the delivery cars were motocycles....with a built in storage box on the back for the pizzas to sit...very interesting. We got the pizza and began our trek to the Tumlisons home that was about an hour and a half away. I don't know how many times the boys asked, "are we there yet?" but who could blame them, we had been traveling all day! They were such troopers. Thank you Lord, for the safe travels and the happy campers. The road. The roads here are very interesting. They are the passageway to all kinds of people, vehicles, and animals. The shoulder of the road is perhaps 2" wide and yet everyone uses it to get from one place to another so it is very common to see cars, people, bicycles with up to 5 people riding on one bike!, people hearding cows, yes cows, down the street and then also the common stray horses that are munching along the roadside.....all together at once...We thought this was kind of strange until we actually had to all walk to church on the road on Sunday morning because of the road work that was going on. Mr. Joel says that the Honduran government has rolled out the red carpet for us to come! They are repairing the road all the way to the paved road to La Cieba...which is very good news since the rainy season has just now ended! What a beautiful place the Lord has created in Honduras! We are amazed at the beauty here! From the Tumlisons back porch to the north we can see the ocean and the mountains are to the east! Yesterday while spending time with Carson I remembered his prayer a couple of weeks ago about wanting warmer weather to come and come soon.....God has answered Carson's prayer!! It is beautiful here and about 75-80 degrees with a wonderful ocean breeze. So, we walked to church on Sunday and attended the church on the Hospital grounds that is an english speaking church where alot of the missionaries attend. It was very neat to sing praises and worship the Lord with them and get to meet some of them and their children. I am sure that in our time here we will get to hear more about what the Lord is doing in their midst here in Honduras as they are so strategically placed to minister to this community! I couldn't help but thank the Lord for them and their obedience to His call on their lives. The kids. Upon arriving to the Tumlisons home the boys and Linda just seemed to pick up where they left off even though we haven't seen them in a year and a half. They are all enjoying playing together. Lisa who is the youngest daughter (2yrs old) adores Abigail and calls her "my baby"...she says "where is my baby?" "what my baby doing" ...which is sooo cute and last night she spent probably 15 minutes combing Abigail's hair....and Abigail let her! I love seeing the children play, share and love on each other