7/5/13 Friday Honduras Mission
Day # 5
Well, we have made it thru this amazing week in Honduras. There have been so many blessings that they can't be counted all at once. The relationships that we have made with the locals here are cemented in our hearts and will last a lifetime. They are so eager to learn about our lives as we are about theirs. I've never seen a people that are so receptive to hearing the gospel and the Love of Jesus Christ and so respectful to our efforts. It truly means a lot to them that we are willing to come to serve them in their needs. I think it is as hard on them to see us go as it is for us to leave knowing that it may be some time before we see them again. I can speak for myself that a part of my heart will always be here at the Mission. This is the first Mission trip I have made out of the country and it has changed my heart for the better about knowing my fellow man from another culture. Building this dormitory was just the catalyst to bringing our hearts together. The language barrier served us to try harder to get to know one another. I know we butchered a lot of words but it created a lot of good laughs.
Gathering Hearts Mission is a tremendous blessing to the local people here in Honduras and to those that are willing to travel here to help others. The best part about coming here is that those that come are usually the ones that receive the biggest blessing. Meeting Gary and Cheryl Kuney has has been an amazing experience. I have never met a couple that is SO committed to serving others and sharing the gospel that I am greatly humbled by their efforts.
The medical team did an outstanding job seeing over 320 patients from fevers and sinus infections to some very serious conditions. We used local student translators in our efforts to communicate with these wonderful people and one of which has so moved with compassion by the condition of a little boy with spina bifida that she broke down in tears and had to take a break. Now she has committed to further needs of this family that lives in one of the houses that was built by the funds that were raised by the track team at Metro Christian Academy in Tulsa, Ok.
I have so many new memories that I pray that i will not soon forget. I have many new brothers in Christ and that is a wonderful feeling that's will always have.
Working with the locals they have nick named us. I was tagged with ="the Terminator" I'll be back!
Nelson Orr