Today (Sunday) we went to the the capital, Tegucigalpa, to celebrate the 47th anniversary of Pastor Jorge Pinto's Church, Amor y Vida. Pastor Pinto is the founder of Manuelito and so we and all the kids from the project took two buses on the hour and a half journey to be there.
Church started at about 10.30, but it seemed to be only us until about 11 (I'm not going to worry about being 5 minutes late to church ever again). We watched some lovely dancers with flags and tambourines who wore lots of silk clothing and worshiped as best we could (not much singing, lots of clapping). We introduced ourselves and Rosalie did a small talk about stepping out and about the future of the St Peters/Amor y Vida/Manuelito partnership and we tried to sing light of the world in Spanish. Maybe we will try it at Church when we we're back...
After Church we quickly ran out to the buses and took a trip up a huge hill overlooking Tegucigalpa which has a large statue of Jesus, similar to Rio De Janeiro, on top. We ordered 35 pepperoni pizzas which greeted us at the top which filled us and all the kids up to the brim! Duncan said it was nice to hear the kids say that they were full.
After a couple of hours in the park around giant Jesus we headed back to Manuelito via a trip to a supermarket. We were told it was a more expensive supermarket as it was stocked with a lot of American food and upon entry was clearly very popular with American missionaries. We stocked up on lucky charms, pop tarts and Dylan bought 12 cans of root beer (despite the fact he had never tried it before and has now decided he doesn't like).
It's been a long, hot and tiring day and I think we are all looking forward to bed.
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