Larry says that he thinks that air travel is too fast for our souls, that our bodies get transported fine, but it takes a day or two for our insides to catch up. True or not, itīs been a difficult adjustment for us to get settled in again after three months in the states. We have missed our friends Joe and Rachel (they left the same day we arrived), and the faces of you all are still fresh in our minds.
But the Lordīs mercies are new in these glowing Honduran mornings, and we have these six months to work hard and enjoy this other country.
One strange thing happened since we left. A fellow moved up here from La Ceiba, a nephew of the fellow who owns the soccer field in Las Mangas. He said at first that he wanted to get an expedition together to climb the highest mountains around here to look for gold and herbs that would cure AIDS. He was looking for a geologist and a botanist to join him.
After awhile, he started saying that the property really belonged to him. He carries a pistol and a rifle, and he has closed off the soccer field by shutting the gates and hanging around the field with his guns. Unfortunately, he also effectively evicted one of the families living adjacent to the field, the parents of Victor who is the student body president at Instituto El Rey. It is still uncertain how things will turn out.
In other news, Ramirez has had a battery of tests, including an echo cardiogram (?). The doctor, the chief cardiologist at a hospital in San Pedro Sula, has promised to pay for one of the most expensive tests($400) himself. Apparently Ramirez is a very unusual case. Praise God for this unexpected gift.
Weīve posted some more pictures of Motherīs Day at the school, kicking around the campus in Las Mangas, and visiting the Ramirez family in La Moralla.
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