Day 6 – June 14th - Tour Day, Big Jesus and Wrap Up

Today was our touring day. We first stopped at the Catholic Church to look around there. After that we were taken to a seminary in the area where Brookhills had set up a souvenir shop. They had bought a bunch of Honduras stuff and set up a little store there.

After we finished shopping, we went to “Gringo Alley” which is just a street where all the American Restaurants are located. Just to give you a little background on what “Gringo” means. It’s a somewhat derogatory term for American, much like “Chinc” or “Cracker” are here in America. We ended up going to Pizza Hut for lunch.

From there we went to another place to shop. This was a more upscale type place with lots of pottery, ceramics, and pewter. Needless to say, the girls spent more money here than the boys did.

Soon it started to rain but this wasn’t going to spoil our trip up the big mountain to see “Big Jesus”. The sky got darker and darker and the rain got harder and harder but we were determined to get up that mountain and see the big guy. When we reached the top, we found out that we weren’t going to be able to get into the park because of the lightning so we had to sit there and wait for the rain to settle and then start back down.

As we got back down to the city, we passed people sweeping water out of their doors. That is how bad it was raining. The city began to flood in some parts. It was the worst rain they had had all season I think.

We got back to the hotel and got ready for our last dinner and our group meeting with the other group. We were the first to arrive at the restaurant for our dinner and it was incredible. We had so much food left over, we packed it all into to-go boxes and took it with us. We gave a few to our bus driver and then gave the rest to the maids at the hotel.

At the group meeting, we all met at Luz y Verdad, which is the church that the big group had been working with all week. Billy went over the global-disciple making model that we had learned in a sermon series earlier in the year. He explained how he knew we had seen it before but now that we had been putting it to practice all week, that we would see it in a different way. We broke down the “Great Commission” and began to pinpoint the truth in the verses and then pinpoint what Satan tries to turn around into lies.

After we finished that, we split up into our two groups and watched our videos and then shared what was on our hearts within our groups. I’m not sure what the other group did but I know my group did a lot of crying. Ha. We prayed over Carrie and Archie before we left. Both of them are getting married soon so we prayed for that – Carrie in September and Archie in December.

Once we wrapped things up there, we went back to the hotel to pack and get a few hours of sleep before we had to be up and ready to leave a 4 a.m.