Sunday Lovely Sunday

I've always loved Sundays.  I'm so thankful God gave them to us.  Here, Sundays are a little different than Sundays at home, but I love them just as much.

Next Sunday, I'll be taking over the missionary kids' Sunday school because Miss Zina, the lady who is now substituting for the real teacher, is leaving for a while.  This Sunday I got to sit in on class to see what it is like.  It's a class of seven boys, ages 11-14, I think, and they're all very punctual.  Sunday school started at 9am sharp.  We all had Sprite and brownies (For breakfast??? I think yes.) while we listened to Miss Zina talk about valuing salvation and God's Kingdom.  That was fun.

I also got to go with Miss Norma and Christine (who both work at the hospital) to La Ceiba, which is a fairly large city.  Balfate is the little village where the hospital and staff housing are and where many of the missionaries live, and in the general area of Balfate are several little towns. There are pulperias in the towns, which are basically little grocery stores, but they only have some things so most of the missionaries make the hour trip out to La Ceiba every other week or so.

When Christine, Miss Norma, and I went, we ate out at a Chinese restaurant before going grocery shopping.  In case you were wondering, here's what I think about Chinese restaurants: they are ubiquitous and basically all the same.  Granted, the quality of some may be higher, but they all sell the same old fried rice and chicken with vegetables and "Tacos Chinos" (which means Chinese tacos, or spring rolls).  And I'm fairly certain they all have paper lanterns, names containing either "palace," "jade," or "gold," and a fountain in the entrance with a Buddha statue somewhere nearby.  This particular restaurante was the Golden Palace and had a fountain that smoked at the top with little green and red lights shining through the mist.  Anyways, lunch was delicious.  I got fried rice with chicken and shrimp.  I think they probably intend for several people to order one dish and split it, but we all ordered our own food so that now we have leftovers that'll last another four or so meals.

After lunch, we went shopping at Paiz, a pretty big grocery store, and in the mall.  We got everything we need for the next week or two, I found soy sauce for cheap, plus I got a pineapple and orange licuado (smoothie) for the ride home.  SO good.  Thanks, Lord, for the little blessings, as well as the big ones.

AND to top it all off, I got to spend the evening watching a few NCIS episodes with Amy and Dr. Don up at the Rumbaughs' house.  That was fun, too.  

 Here are Katerin and Margarita. They're two seven-year-old girls from the bilingual school.

"When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?" Psalm 8:3-4

These aren't pictures of stars, but I think the verse is still applicable. :)