I have been SUPER busy with school recently, and combine that with the women's retreat means I have had very little time for blogging, and for that I apologize. This past weekend I had the privilege to help with the Women of Purpose retreat here in Honduras. WOP as it is known is a retreat for the female missionaries of Honduras. They come from all over the country to relax and worship. It was pretty amazing to see all of these selfless women together in one place. Saturday of the retreat David, the band members, and I went to a children's home, Didasko, to drop off some clothes and food. We would have about an hour to spend some time with the kids. I saw a soccer court and knew exactly how I was going to spend the next hour. I asked the first kid I saw, Juan Pablo, where the ball was to play. He grabbed it and challenged me to a race. I won. We played for a little while by ourselves before we noticed that no one else had followed us to play. We returned to where everyone was at and I played soccer with Juan Pablo and his friends. I really enjoyed being able to spend the afternoon with the kids there at Didasko!
Sunday was one of my favorite days here in Honduras. It was one of the last days of the retreat and we had been working on a surprise for Jen Wright for a few days. David's plan was to get ahold of the 8 brothers and bring them to the retreat so that she could visit with them since we had not seen them since they moved in early August. We finally got ahold of them on Saturday and planned to meet them in Comayagua to bring them to the airport to see Jen. We woke up early Sunday morning and took our road trip to meet them. We were to meet them at the Wendy's in town so as we sat and waited for them excitement levels were reaching an all time high. When we finally spotted them coming around the corner Carlos had to tell me not to scream. Marvin came to me first, gave me a great big hug and asked, "COREY!!!? What are you doing here?" It was all I could do not to cry. We then set off on our journey to the airport where Jen was helping a few of the ladies with their flights back home. As we drove back Jen called David a few times but since we had 11 extra people with us we couldn't answer. When we arrived at the airport we hid the boys from sight so they could jump out and surprise her when she walked through the doors! It was an amazing surprise and Jen was overjoyed to see her boys! After the airport we spend the afternoon at the women's retreat with the boys. It was pretty awesome to spend time and play with all of them, but also sad knowing that the next morning they would be taking the bus back home. Needless to say that night I had some sad goodbyes. However, it was great to see them and to see that they are ok.
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