Yesterday was a big day for Mission Lazarus Refuge. 4 representatives of IHNFA, Honduran child protective services, visited our homes to inspect them and see if we are ready to open. WE PASSED ALL INSPECTIONS! They were thrilled with our new house and were excited for the children that will move there. We also took them to visit a brother of the Beltrands who wants to move with them. He chose not to move last year. He is 16 years old and very quiet. It will be the beginning of a new life for him. We then ate lunch together and then visited the Beltrand children in their house. They were pleased to see the difference in them.
Last night we went with some of our friends (Doris Corrales and her family and Sabastiana, our social worker for the home) to a theater in Choluteca to support a children's home there who was selling tickets. It was a one man play about drug addiction. It lasted about an hour. The actor did a good job by himself. But only in Honduras do you visit the theater and see people eating corn on the cob while they enjoy the show and pull out their flashlights when the lights go out to continue the play. Near the end of the show, the electricity went out and there was a pause for about a minute and then 4 or 5 flashlights were brought out to continue the show. It will be a memory forever.
All in all, yesterday was a great day! It was intense but great to spend time with some representatives from IHNFA who we are becoming friends with. We are looking to move the children next week into the new house. What a day that will be.
Chad
Last night we went with some of our friends (Doris Corrales and her family and Sabastiana, our social worker for the home) to a theater in Choluteca to support a children's home there who was selling tickets. It was a one man play about drug addiction. It lasted about an hour. The actor did a good job by himself. But only in Honduras do you visit the theater and see people eating corn on the cob while they enjoy the show and pull out their flashlights when the lights go out to continue the play. Near the end of the show, the electricity went out and there was a pause for about a minute and then 4 or 5 flashlights were brought out to continue the show. It will be a memory forever.
All in all, yesterday was a great day! It was intense but great to spend time with some representatives from IHNFA who we are becoming friends with. We are looking to move the children next week into the new house. What a day that will be.
Chad
2 comments:
Congrats Chad & Shelly!
That is great news and I am excited to hear how everything goes with the children moving in. I'll write you soon :)
love,
Blair Peterson
You write very well.
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