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Today I hit "ENTER" again...just like I did way back on January 1st of this year. I bought 5 new tickets to Honduras. We will be returning to Honduras about a year after we left. We had hoped to return earlier but various events prevented that. We have been watching the airline prices and the timing seemed right to purchase!

We keep in touch with our friends in Honduras on a regular basis by email and telephone. We are VERY excited to be returning to see the kids in Talanga at Proyecto Manuelito. We will also be excited to see the adults we got to know there (Clara, Lorena, Damary, Elmore, etc!!)

* Our plan is to arrive in Tegucigalpa and probably spend a few days there. We hope to meet up with a U.S. pediatric cardiac surgeon who is supposed to be in Teguc doing some surgeries when we are. I would like to see their setup and introduce Alex to him.

* We will then go to Talanga for probably 3 days/night.

* We also plan to spend 3 or 4 nights on the island of Roatan (Honduras) before flying home again.

We will be flying in/out of Chicago because the airfare is so much cheaper than Indianapolis.

Anyway.....that's our news. Stay Posted!

Back Home Again

Well....we are safely back in Indiana! All of our luggage made it back and our travels were fairly uneventful. We went through Customs without a single bag being opened which made our layover in Houston nice.

It is always coming home after a mission trip and this time it seems even harder since we were at Proyecto Manuelito for an extended period of time. We come home to a nice home and plenty of food, etc....and we think about how we could live so much more simply and how blessed we are by God. Our thoughts throughout the day go back to the Project...wondering how the kids are doing, what they are doing, etc. It is great to be home but a piece of us remains in Talanga.

We think that the Project is going to get internet soon so perhaps we can email the kids on a regular basis. We have already talked about how/when we can go back and visit again.

We will update more later. Thank you VERY much for your prayers and support for our mission work in Honduras. It is all GREATLY appreciated. It was a huge success.

Crackdown

Our hotel just informed us that the US state department has suspended all travel between Honduras and the US for the next month. We are trying to make travel arrangements and may have to drive home. We are fine and not worried about our safety. Hope to see you soon.






APRIL FOOLS!

Looking forward to being in Greenwood thursday evening. Thanks for your continued prayers.

Love,
the Millers

Roatan Update

well its nate here...
just came for a bit to upload pictures of the last couple of weeks.

the family rented 2 mopeds and a 4 wheeler to tour the island yesterday (monday)

the sunset last night (monday)

the hotel/restaurant we are staying at on the island.

The night our family went to the streets of Teguc

the family at the copan ruins

well...

the whole family is alright.

and we head back to san pedro sula tomorrow.

and then fly home on thursday.

bye!

Roatan

Thanks for your prayers.....we have arrived safely on Roatan. We woke up at 430am and headed to the bus station for a 6pm bus from San Pedro Sula to La Ceiba. Very nice bus ride. Once in La C eiba we quickly found a taxi and sped to the ferry terminal and wer able to catch the boat to Roatan. The boat ride took over an hour and most of us had upset stomachs from the choppy sea. But we are now here and are very pleased with how beautiful everything is. We have not gotten into our room yet but the place is just across the street from a nice little beach. There is a little grocery store nearby so we can buy some food. The water is pretty and we are looking forward to a few days where we can "decompress" and talk about our experiences over the past 6 weks. It sems strange to go from the streets of Teguc with kids living in the streets to the beauty of Roatan. This is exactly why we wanted a few days "off" before returning to Greenwood. We feel truly blessed by our experinces and we want to talk about all of them as a family before we return to the hectic pace of real life at home. Perhaps we can reevaluate our lives at home and get our priorities in order and not be so hectic.....we'll see.

More later hopefully. Thanks again for your prayers....we have ben blessed with safety and health!!

Copan Ruins

We arrived safely in San Pedro Sula last evening and Kent picked us up at the bus station. Had a great dinner at a nice Honduran restaurant and then drove around San Pedro Sula a bit to look around. It has a very different feel than Tegucigalpa--more orderly and more spacious streets for sure! Today we took a day trip (thanks to Kent) to the Copan Ruins--Mayan ruins about a 3 hour drive from San Pedro Sula. We got a guide and spent about 2 hours touring the ruins. Very interesting, especially for Nate and Chase who had never seen anything like that before. They were especially fascinated by the field where an annual game was played--and the captain of the winning team was then taken to a special rock and beheaded as a sacrifice.

We had a late lunch in the town of Copan--a very cute, very touristy little village, with a similar feel to Valley of the Angels for those of you who have been there. Returned to Kent and Judy's and are right now reorganizing (once again) to get ready to leave for the bus at 5:30 tomorrow morning! Our bus leaves at 6 and is scheduled to arrive in La Ceiba by 9.....we will try to grab the 9:30 ferry over to Roatan so we can relax on the beach ASAP!!!
We feel kind of caught between 2 worlds---the one we have left, and the one we will be returning to, spending time thinking about each. Have been singing lots of the songs that we learned all the words to in Talanga with the kids, and bought a couple of CDs so we can listen to some of the "new" artists (new to us but not to the people here) often when we get home.

Looking forward to sleeping late and relaxing on Roatan. Will try to update at least once more before we head for Indy in less than a week! Wow. Continued thanks for your notes and prayers. Will be in touch. EWM

New adventures

Good morning! A quick note before we head to the bus station. Alex and I just sat at the breakfast table here at the Guest House wondering how the morning went at Manuelito....whether anyone had a fit about getting dressed, whether everyone remembered to pray before they ate breakfast, who walked the kids to school....we know that they got along well before we arrived, and they will all be fine now that we are gone, but it feels funny not being there with all of our friends and kids. We are emotionally pooped out right now. More difficult good byes (difficult for us, not for Jeremy!!) today as we leave Teguc, but fun hellos as we join our friends Kent and Judy in San Pedro Sula for a couple of days, and then to Roatan to decompress, relax and visit with my sister Barb who will be vacationing there for the week as well.
We are thinking about all of our Center Grove pals as you all head into Spring Break--safe travels for everyone, and a wonderful, relaxing, rejuvenating time, we hope. A week from today we will be back in Greenwood. Nate is talking about the things he will eat when he gets home, Chase is anxious to take the new class mascot that he bought to school, Charles is thinking about what the stock market might have done while we have been gone.......Alex and I are thinking about when we can get back to Manuelito. The boys have had a wonderful experience as well, but Alex and I are not thinking ahead right now---we are pretty blue and still spending our day dreams in Talanga. One thing is for sure--we have been changed as individuals and as a family by this time together. God works in strange and wonderful ways sometimes!!
Thank you for your prayers for all of us. During our last week please pray for our safety and that we have a smooth readjustment to life, work and school back in suburbia. See you soon!! EWM