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