Greetings Rafikis!
Today, Saturday, we had church and a happy Sabbath it was indeed. We finished up VBS with 71 children coming to Sabbath School! I said my goodbyes to the purple people eaters, my group, and after hearing a riveting sermon from Pastor Saul on how our ministries are fulfilled beyond the walls of a church, we had the rest of the Sabbath to continue to enjoy. We took a tour through some mangroves. At times it definitely looked like a Disney Land ride as we became surrounded by groves. One boat learned that the native Hondurans would paddle into the mangroves to get away from murderous pirates who's larger boats couldn't make it in there. That's an interesting fact! After the Mangroves, a van load headed out to the west end.
Now when I say west end, don't think theater, musicals, and a bunch of dramatic musically talented people walking around constantly enunciating and drinking gallons of water. No friends, this was not London's West End, but the West End of Roatan! What a quaint yet bustling little tourist district! One of the mission trippers described it like "Key West would have looked like 40 years ago". He hit it right on the head. It was a great little place right on the beach, but totally touristy and a whole different atmosphere than where we've been spending our time on this island. This is where the rest of the Americans were. We actually saw some fellow Adventist mission trippers from another group huddling in the back of a pick-up wearing their VBS t-shirts. As the sun set, we tried to find a great smoothy place so we could sit and enjoy the beach, but we quickly found out the best smoothy place in West End was owned by an Adventist and was not open on Saturdays (including Saturday night!).
As the night wore on we were continually worried about one in our group who made a side trip to a hospital to make sure some symptoms were not serious before getting on a plane tomorrow. As we waited and chatted, Lauryn asked us what spiritual insights we gathered from our trip. It was our "Sabbath Closing Worship". Brent said, It was definitely life changing. Austin Mock earlier commented that it (the mission trip) was way more than he expected. Joel remarked that it is good to be reminded what the important things in life are and that having more stuff is not that important! And with that we went to dinner at the Cannibal Cafe.
The Cannibal Cafe is an authentic Roatan restaurant with a heavy Mexican food influence. We had an assortment of different burritos, but even better than the food was the conversation. We all got to know each other better and spent the time being loud and laughing as if we were on something other than life. But today, life was just good enough to keep us all smiling. After the 1+ hour drive back to Paya Bay, we are all definitely exhausted and ready to hit the road tomorrow morning for our return trip home. What a wonderful Sabbath full of laughter, Jesus, and friends!
Please continue to pray for those in our group who are not 100% health wise and pray for our safe travels home tomorrow!
- Fidz
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