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Maria and Diasira |
We hope this letter finds you well and enjoying springtime. We’re doing fine and enjoying life in Honduras. Springtime here is actually the dry season with lots of hot days, very dry, dusty land and lots of mosquitos. Forest fires easily spread in the surrounding mountains and create white smoke that settles in over our city, blocking the view of the beautiful mountains and sometimes keeping airplanes from landing due to poor visibility. Rain is coming soon, though, to Tegucigalpa and will bring cooler weather. It’s a great time to be here. The rain comes in the middle of mango season, and cleans up the air, brings cooler temperatures and highlights beautiful green flowering trees everywhere.
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| Jhoselyn |
The three of us are doing well. Robert is involved in a men’s Bible study and enjoys getting time with some solid men from our Christian community. Jennifer is involved in a ladies Bible study where she gets to spend time growing in Christ and having deep friendships with other English-speaking missionary ladies. Both groups encourage and challenge us. Robert also continues to work with WGO in finances and Jennifer keeps creating new crafts for fun. Rodolfo is finishing 6th grade and has a huge Honduran Civics exam in June that must be passed by all students in order to graduate from 6th grade and continue in their education. As he moves into teenage life, we work to teach him how to manage more and more responsibilities as he becomes a young man. Please pray with us that we teach him well and that he grows to be a young man who seeks to honor the Lord.
The Bridge girls are all busy with work and school. We have 4 young ladies living with us now. Maria is teaching at a local daycare and going to college, studying Social Work. Jhoselyn is teaching at a local elementary school. Eleni is working with a missionary couple trying to start their own school in town. Diasira, still 17 years old and unable to work full-time, is taking advantage of the opportunity to study nursing fulltime.
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Eleni |
We all still meet together weekly and study various issues. Lately we’ve gone through “Does God Exist”, a Focus on the Family college-level course on knowing what you believe and learning how to defend it. We are now studying the “Peacemaking Church” which teaches us how to improve our interpersonal skills. These four young ladies are a joy to have around and we consider it a blessing for us to be a part of their lives as they grow and learn to spread their wings in life. Pray with us that they desire to honor God in all they do.
As we move toward summer, we are starting to make plans for our furlough in the States. We will be in Arkansas from June 21- July 11. We will then be in California from July 12- August 1. Our time in each area is always short but we’d love to see as many of you as we can. Please feel free to contact us at our email robjenbutts@gmail.com or by phone (559)-639-5933 while we are still in Honduras. Once we get to the States, our cell phone is (559) 410-2576. Again, we’d love to visit with as many of you as we can.
