back home

I’m back! I got home yesterday evening around 8. I had a whole welcoming crew at the airport! My mom and younger sister, Anna, my older sister and her fiancé(both of whom I haven’t seen for more than a year!), the Genovas, and Elena and Cassie (two of my best friends). It was funny because the flight was just a tiny flight of about 50 people, mostly flying domestically from Houston. No one else really had anyone to greet them, and I had a whole crowd! It was a lot of fun.

This morning has been nice. I slept in a little (it was nice to sleep in my own bed!), then had a lovely breakfast with Natalie, Rl and Anna. I think what has struck me the most about my 15 or so hours of being home, is how normal everything is. It’s like my life paused for 6 weeks while I was in Honduras, and now has started again. It’s like I’m having trouble fitting my time in Honduras in with my day-to-day life here. It’s hard to explain, because I don’t even know what I’m feeling. I haven’t really noticed too much culture shock being back, but it seems to hit me later than most people. It was kind of odd not being slightly nervous to brush my teeth with tap water, but that’s about the only time I’ve really noticed feeling weird about something normal for here, so far anyway.

Thank you for all your prayers for safe travel, everything went smoothly on my flights and through customs. I’ll do my best to update some as things settle down and I start feeling the difference between life here and life in Honduras in the next week or so.

Here are a couple more prayer requests:
-praise for safe travel!
-Nicole as she continues her work with the ministry in Tegucigalpa for 6 more weeks
-thank God for the generous and wonderful Martin family!
-that I will not simply move on with my life but keep in mind all the people I met and the poverty I saw in Honduras


ps- I don't know if you remember, but in one of my first posts, i made a comment about the blogger website being in Spanish in Honduras, and that it threw me off for a sec. Now it's back to English and i think it looks weird!