We're here!

Well, we finally arrived here in Tegucigalpa just over a week ago.  It's been quite a whirlwind past few weeks so it is nice to get settled into our home here.  Two weeks ago we were moving furniture into storage, painting rooms, cleaning every nook and cranny of our house, packing bags, and making decisions about what to keep, throw away, or donate.  Fortunately, we had a few days after moving out to chill with the Bells and say our goodbyes to family and friends.  We took a red-eye flight at 12:45am on Wednesday, August 4th and arrived here in Honduras at around noon.  All things considered, the flights went very well and our kids did much better than I expected.  That's not to say there weren't tears shed or tired whines heard from time to time, but overall, they did great considering they only slept a few hours that day.

For the past week or so, we've been getting settled into our house and attending teacher orientations.  We are very blessed to have neighbors next to us with 6 kids.  Our girls have spent a lot of time with them and have developed some great friends already.  We also have a maid named Maria 5 days a week which is normal for teachers here and is truly a blessing for us.  She cleans, does laundry, watches the kids for us, and even cooks.  She has already made some awesome homemade flour and corn tortillas, Honduran beans and rice, fresh squeezed orange juice, plus a few other things I don't even know the name of yet.  Regardless, they are all delicious.  We could really get used to this.

For prayer requests, we just ask that you pray that the school year would start of well for us and our girls (school starts next Thursday), that we would stay protected and healthy (there's a bit of a dengue fever outbreak in Honduras right now), and that all of us would adjust well to this new culture.  We truly want to immerse ourselves into it as much as possible and hope that our lives can be a witness to the students and families we serve here at Academia Los Pinares.

Here are a couple of links to our photos here in Honduras, so enjoy:
Our house and Tegucigalpa
A typical Honduran home