St. Peter Mission Trip, Honduras

 Saturday turned out to be an extra day.  We started by casually strolling down to breakfast.  Afterwards, we went inside to a little room where we usually had our nightly devotion.  Pastor Mark had arranged for Pastor Junior and Rosa to bring over wine and wafers the night before.  So today he conducted a morning devotion and we were able to take communion together.  It was very emotional to come before God in such a way with just our group. Since we had time, Sarah decided to conduct a clinic with the people of the hotel and restaurant. We had about 25 people who came into her hotel room.  It was great to be able to help them with eyeglasses, especially since they were such great hosts to us during our stay there.  Hector, who was the security guard, was among those who came.  He was always there with a friendly smile each day. We usually went to Tito’s for dinner.  We developed a habit of having ice cream out of a cooler most nights.  Once Pastor Mark and Paul found out that they we

Sunday morning we were packed and ready to head to the airport.  The van picked us up and we said goodbye to the home we knew for the past week.  Pastor Junior and Rosa were there to say goodbye.  We arrived at the airport, went through customs, and our plane actually left a little early. We had a one hour layover in Miami before leaving again for Michigan — or so we thought.  When we arrived, we found out that our flight was cancelled due to weather and so were 1,450 other flights along the east coast.  After waiting in line for four hours to rebook our flight, we found out that we could not get out until Tuesday (41 hours later).  We ended up getting a hotel for two nights but no one had any extra clothes or even a tooth brush.  Luckily there was a Target near by.  Our team leader, Sarah taught us to be “joyfully flexible”. The last night, we called an Uber and went out for a lovely Italian dinner.  Our waiter happened to be from Honduras.   Everyone woke up Tuesday morning to clear