Honduran Political Crisis

Well the president is back in town. So now we have two here in Hondruas. Mel Zelaya who was given the boot several months ago in a military coup, is currently in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa. The current government has surrounded the building with police and the military and apparently cut off utilities to it. There have been some clashes between the police and Zelaya supporters and a couple of news sources are saying that an older man was killed in one such confrontation. All of this has meant that we have had a curfew during the day. This is different than before when we only had curfew during night hours. Luckily today they have suspended the curfew until 4pm. Here at the Lake everything has been calm, and because we don´t have enough police to patrol our little town people have been out and about even though there has been curfew. Please pray for Honduras that things would not get worse now that Mel is back in town.

Health Update

Well we have made a few more trips to two specialists in San Pedro, and I am happy to say that we are doing better. I am no longer having problems keeping food inside of me, and the tests that I took in San Pedro all came back negative except for one and the doctor has me on some medicine to take care of that. Unfortunately I am still on a restricted diet until I have fully recovered, I don´t think I will be regained my lost 5 pounds anytime soon. Leah´s asthma is doing a lot better also. Last time we visited the pnumologist he said it sounded like Leah had 200 cats in her lungs. He prescribed some medicine at that time and on our second visit Leah´s cat population was down to about only 5. So Leah is currently on different medication to get all of those cats out of there. She has been sleeping through the night with no issues, praise God ( she was previously waking up every night with asthma attacks). Praise God we are doing better now, thank you for your prayers and support.

Doctor's Visits

It has been forever since we put a post up here, and a ton has happened however we still don't have interenet and I don't have the opportunity to catch up on everything but here is whats going on right now. Leah and I are both headed to the doctor's tomorrow to get checked out. Leah is going to get checked out for her asthma because it has gotten worse since we got here. And I am headed to a gastroenterologist to get checked out because I have been having a lot of problems with my stomach ( I lost 5 lbs those of you who now me know I don't have a lot weight to spare). Please pray for us that we can get everything figuered out with our health. Ok thats all for now. Hopefully we will be able to update a little more soon.

Mas Terremotos!

That's right we had another earthquake. This one was no where nearly as strong as the last one. It was also off the northern coast of Honduras but was only a 5.7. It happened about 11:30 last night. I happened to still be awake, and I was getting up to go the bathroom. As I was doing this I heard a weird rumbling noise, and it sounded like it was moving towards the house, the effect was something like when you hear tress moving in the distance due to the wind, and the sound grows closer and closer as that particular breeze reaches you. In fact I thought that perhaps that was what I was hearing, though I was thinking that it had to be a very strong wind (which is abnormal for where we live) because was very loud and more like a rumble rather than rustling trees. As I was listening to the noise and getting out of bed I suddenly felt dizzy as I stood up. I figured that perhaps I had gotten up to quickly, however I then began to hear things rattling in the house and I could see that our clothes were swinging on their hangers.

Praise God though there was no damage from this earthquake, or at least nothing major that I have heard of or seen in the newspapers. However do please continue to pray for Honduras as those who were affected by the big earthquake are still in bad conditions as help has been slow coming and the government does not have the resources to help the victims either. We are currently trying to get in communication with a woman that we know that lives in the Port of Cortes (it was hit hard by the earthquake) in order to see if there is anyway that we can help her or others that were affected. - Eulogio

USA vs. Honduras

Tonight was a big night here in Honduras. As most of you probably know soccer is king here in Latin America (and actually most of the world outside of the US and maybe Canada), and tonight was an importanat game in the tournament leading up to the World Cup. It was also a tense night for us here since that game was between the United States and Honduras. We went and watched the game in the same place that we have been watching all the games - the hotel restaurant on a big screen- and tonight it was packed! It was standing room only, with a tiny herd of Americans standing in the corner trying not to look conspicuous. At the beginning of the game it looked like the U.S. might be in for another repeat of the Costa Rica game (where we lost fairly badly) because Honduras scored a goal in the first 10 minutes. However the U.S. came back to win amidst oooooo's aahhhhh's and shouts of "penalty" - the passion runs high for games. So after quitetly celebrating in my heart, and then telling a couple of Honduran friends to stop crying, we made our exit. And though the majority of Americans in the U.S. probably have no idea that we won, let alone that we have a soccer team, it was a good night - though in secret.

Oh yeah I almost forgot, shortly after returning home we were punished for winning, and our electricty "went out" ; ) 

Earthquake Follow-Up

So a little damage report from our earthquake. Nothing! Praise God there was no significant damage in our area. Aside from a few large buildings and one bridge that fell in northern Honduras there was no great damage here. In fact the special edition of a newspaper here ran the same headline as you can see above - "Dios Nos Pretegio" "God Protected Us". In addition the sunday school buliding which has been plagued with falling trees, and flooding knocking over the walls, had absolutely no damage. This was amazing considering some of the support columns and beams were not yet in place. Even the main building had some cracks in it. And since we have not had any more set backs on the construction and since the Lord has provided more funds to continue the construction it is beginning to look more like a building and less like a shell. Here are a few pics that I took today.

2 am wakeup call?

We have just had quite the past few weeks, and then now at 2:30 this morning Leah and I were just about shaken out of bed by an earthquake. Yup thats right an earthquake. A 7.1 quake hit off the northern coast of Honduras. We are about 3.5 hours from the coast and maybe about 5 hours from the place nearest the epicenter, but we still got a good shaking. Eventhe capital got a good shaking and the y are further than we are. There are reports of roads being cracked and whatnot but nothing to serious, a bridge also collapsed near San Pedro Sula. Here is a link to a news story about it. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30976505/. I'll post more once I venture out of the house and see what has happenned here in Pena Blanca. I also have to go to San Pedro Sula today pray that the several bridges I have to go across are safe. Well more good times from Honduras.