Two Friends

Once upon a time there were two friends, Science guy and History guy.  One time they were looking for science stuff.  They found fossils inside rocks.  And they thought they finished the mission and they were very happy. They went to eat lunch and they wanted to look more the next morning.  They left Science guy's house and they found a rock with a lot of fossils. They wanted to get the fossils. Later, History guy was looking for things to work with. And in a tree there was a big hole and he said, "Science guy come here and look at the tree that has been struck by lightening."  History guy climbed the tree, which was very big. After that, they went to the laboratory.

Salvation Soccer balls and Baseball Gloves

Last week my Gramma and Grampa came to visit me in Honduras.  They brought some stuff with them.  Two important things they brought were soccer balls that I will explain in a minute and baseball gloves.

The person that sent the soccer balls is one of my friends.  His name is Samuel.  I met him when he came from Oklahoma to visit his grandparents last summer. They live next door to my Gramma. He told me on skype that every Christmas his Grampa Allen and Gramma Kay give him money.  Part of it is to help someone, and the other he can spend.  He decided to do something for me, to help me tell the story of Jesus while I am playing soccer with Hondurans.  He sent two soccer balls and a bunch of little booklets that talk about Salvation.  I want to keep one of the balls to carry around.  I think it will be good because it is so cool looking it will start conversations about Jesus wherever I go.  The other ball I plan take when I go with my dad to a coffee farm and give it to a family there.  I am going to post pictures of this after I do it.  I would now, but I don't have pictures of this.  I think these soccer balls are great.  Samuel is a great person and a good friend.  I want to thank him very much.

Another important thing my Gramma brought was baseball gloves.  My cousin, named Kristopher, sent them.  They are good because they can help with the baseball teams we have already started.  There are always kids that need a left handed glove and we never have enough.  How great is that, that he sent extra left handed gloves!

Thank you very much to these people if you are looking at the blog right now.

Ethan

I got to go on a field trip to a place called Comayagua.  They talked about history but I couldn't understand much of it because it was all in Spanish.  We rode on a bus... a very fast bus.  The road up to Comayagua was very turny.  It was a pretty big bus.  We also went to Pizza Hut and they had a mini-soccer field inside Pizza Hut!
School is alright... it is not my favorite thing in the world.  We play soccer every recess there is.  There is actually 3 recesses, plus lunch.  I think I've gotten pretty good at playing soccer.  You know when I came here I was not very good.  Some of the kids are SUPER good!  Some of them can do bicycle kicks!  I saw a boy named Jonathan do a big one!  I really like computer class because after we finish doing what we are supposed to do we can play games.
Jonathan also plays baseball with us.  Some of the other boys name's are Fernando, Derickson, Josue, Jose, Luis Angel, and sometimes David.  There are more boys too.  It is very fun playing with them since I get to play a sport I liked playing back in the states.
I'm not really sure if we are going to go home to the United States when school is over.  Maybe, maybe not.  If not I am starting to make friends here.  I think it will be good because maybe next year we will get to be even better friends.  Maybe God will use us to spread His word through the gardening and teaching people.  Last night we were invited as special guests to go to a church in the mountains with someone my dad has been working with.  We went and it was very cool!  We listened to the sermon, I got to play soccer with some boys, and my dad got to talk a little bit, and we gave them soccer uniforms and a ball.  Things like this are pretty cool!
A couple weeks ago we also got to go up into the mountains to play baseball.  Most of the kids that played were pretty little, bit they had a lot of fun!  Everyone that was playing had a big smile on their face.  Afterwards we had a little Bible school and we sang songs and had a little lesson.
Last week at something called Civic Hour I got to do a puppet show with my mom.  That was very cool too.  We were trying to teach a Bible verse, 2Timothy 2:15.  I think we did pretty good.
I tell you more next time!

-Ethan

I want to tell you about my first day of school.  I was very, very nervous before I went to school.  I thought people were going to make fun of me.  But apparently I was wrong.  I am friends with every boy in my class and they all like me a lot, I think.   You have to walk in through a big gate and a security guard named Hido, I think, opens the gate for you.  Then you can see the teachers house and the comedor and the library.  In front of my class is a big playground.  The room name of my class is cuarto.  It is upstairs.  The rooms all face outside.  They do not have a/c.  It gets very hot in our room sometimes.

One day before school started, my daddy took me to the Minninite farm.  I met a boy named Phillip.  I had a lot of fun.  He showed me around the whole farm and I thought it was pretty cool.  (Cool would be 'massisso' in Honduran.)  Phillip and I did all kinds of stuff.  We even crawled over walls next to big cow sacks.  We also jumped out of a trailor into freshly mowed grass.  We also crawled next to cow food that they were making.  This is how they make it.  They use cuttings from grass that they stuff in a machine that cuts it into tiny pieces.  Then they let it sit for about a week.  They also make their own coffee from coffee seeds.  They put it in this big thing that has a torch that shoots into it.  The coffee spins and gets warmed up.  When it is done, this guy opens up a little door and you pick out the burnt ones and the not cooked enough ones.  Then it shoots out another door into a sack.

We sang the 'Oh No You Never Let Go' song in Spanish on our first day of school.  I loved it and can't wait to learn the words.

That's all I have.
Ethan 

My first bit of thoughts

I want to talk about  some of the fruits here in Honduras... like Starfruit.  You are supposed to eat Starfruit when it turns yellow, but you can eat them when they are green.  When they are green they taste sort of like a tarty pineapple.  When they are yellow they taste sort of like grapes.  They are very good! I like the pineapple a lot better than in America.  They have a lot more flavor and are a lot more yellow inside, which helps the flavor a lot, I think. 
The sun comes up a lot earlier here.  Also, the weather is a lot nicer.  It is a lot cooler here. There is no air condition but I think it is fine without air condition because the weather is so good.

I have made several friends here already.  Some of their names are Micah, Nathan, Natha, Kevin, and I can't think of the others.  We pretty much play anything.  We like to climb trees and play sports, like soccer.  We have also played basketball. 

I have been reading a lot out of Esther lately.  It is a great book.  Esther is sort of similar to my life.  Right now I am in chapter 2, and Esther has just been seperated from her family.  That is kind of similar to me and my family.  I am very excited to read more.  It is very very interesting.

I would like you to pray that we can bring a lot of people to Christ. 
This is one of my personal prayer requests; I would like for you to pray for me to learn the language.  I would like to learn the language so I can make more relationships.  I start language school tomorrow morning.  I am a little bit excited about it and nervous. 

That's all I got.
-Ethan