Living Mountainside

Hello for the mountain side of Comayagua, Honduras!! After a 20 hour travel day my squad and I got to our new home for the next 2 months last Wednesday! Here’s so updates in bullet formation:

• My entire squad will be living together this next month with 20 other Hondurans until June when the men of our squad will be going to a different ministry. 
• A lot of the Hondurans we are living with are highschoolers and are actually getting credit for school by translating for us! It’s been cool building relationships and getting to know them the past week. 
• We are currently helping build a church right above our campsite (which was built 2 weeks before we got here and we just finished digging out plots of land for our tents to go) that will be a place of gathering and worship for the surrounding people living on the mountain side. We had a time of prayer on our first full day here and people walked over 2 hours just to join…and let me tell you, these hills are killer to walk up and down. 
• Above the church will be another building for ladies to come and learn how to cook and sew so that they will have a means of income and also learn skills that we take for granted everyday in America. 
• It’s been humbling living in a slower paced community (not slower work cause man these people are FAST there) but the fact that when we need supplies like bamboo or wood we literally have to walk 30+ minutes up and down hills to get it whereas in America all we would need to do is drive to the store and it’s ready for us. 
• Speaking of bamboo and wood runs….they’re fun but hard! I’m current all bruised up from yesterday’s trip (thankfully today is sabbath) 
• Rest is so important 
• Cold showers are refreshing after said bamboo and wood runs but you have to time it right so the sun is still up to warm you up afterwards
• I hate spiders- but love my pal Bri who will literally run to my tent to come save me a when one is on the inside of my tent and then disappears (fun fact: she also cleaned bat poop out of my hair in Costa Rica…she is a FRIEND) 
• Beans and rice can be made in all different variations….breakfast tacos to soups!
• God has been really kind and it’s been sweet finding joy in the smallest things: friends blessing me with their cooked carrots they hate, sunrises and sunsets, the fact I get to live with some of my best pals the next 2 months, worshipping under a sky full of stars, and having really sweet and life giving conversations with friends. 

Thank you to everyone who has been praying for me…I can’t believe we’re already on month 5!

I’m also $700 from being fully funded! I would love your support whether that be financially or through prayer. 

Love, MK