Today was the day that I had prepared for the most. It was our leadership day and my plan was to preach on the book of 1 John. This is why we had used these passages on Wednesday Nights back home. But God has a sense of humor. He has been expressing it all week this week. Everyday I have spent a number of hours studying and writing sermons because God has changed them altogether. Today was no different.
We did not have a leadership night tonight. I was told at the beginning of the week that the zone pastors met and they decided that this year was going to be an evangelism year and that all of the teams that came this year they want them to push evangelism so my message changed. The only issue was that I had no access to my computer because we were about 2 hours away from Comayagua (only 1 hour coming home, all down-hill). But God knows what he is doing and all went well.
We met with a little resistance today in both people and health. During evangelism time this morning there were many who were just completely resistant to the gospel and to us even being there. A few of us had said that if this was the first time out we would be discouraged, but with 98 professions of faith, We are all still ready for more.
Our resistance in health was not from me surprisingly, I made it all day with only aleve this morning, but it was from Eric. Do not fear, he is fine and joking with the best of us now. We were afraid that his blood pressure was high because he was getting a “weird” feeling that he could not explain and was half dizzy. He told us that his blood pressure medicine did not come in before we left so he had not taken it since we arrived. Thankfully, pharmacies in Honduras don’t require you to have a prescription for much of anything so we were able to get his medicine. Before we gave it to him, we also had his blood-pressure checked and he was fine. It was not high at all.
After all of this, what we found was that he was going through withdrawls from cafeine. Since he did not have his medicine he did not want to drink his normal coke per day since we left and he was feeling the effects. I am not sure if it was the medicine or the coca-cola that did the trick, but he was fired up and ready to roll in a few hours. So back tot he coke a day Eric!
It is late so I will end here. The service tonight was amazing, and I am so proud of the team and the energy they have out into the trip. I have figured out though, that if we come back, we need to bring more candy and stuffed toys, we have almost run out already.
I think next time I want to go to Costa Rica though, but we will have to wait and see.
Hasta Manyana
aaawwww. My poor Daddy. I got so scared reading half way through your blog Rich. Me and dad were joking before he left that his medicine would probably be in the mail on sat. and sure enough it was. He was looking a little flush on fri. night and I was kinda nervous. He told me that the pharmacies over there were pretty leaniant on prescriptions. I just wasn’t sure if it would be the same make up. When I read that dad hadn’t had a regular coke in four days, that made me feel better. He was just having withdraws. That’s not too serious of a matter. I’m glad to here that my deed (that’s what I call him, deed) is feeling better and back to his corny old self. I got a little shook up for a minute. Thank you for posting that. Dads not much of a typer, as I sure you know, and he probably didn’t want to worry me, so he probably wouldn’t have said anything till he got home. Well I’m glad all is well and 98 lives changed! how amazing! Keep up the good Gods work. If my dad doesn’t read this tell him I love him and please drink caffene haha!
Christina
Rich- glad that you had this site set up to share with us. I print off the blogs and we read them with the kids each night. They like hearing about everything you are doing. Adam will be so excited in the morning when I tell him that your back is a little better – he has been saying an extra special prayer just for you and your back – because in his words “your one of his bestest uncles ever”. We love you and are continuing to lift you and the entire team up in prayer! Valerie