Hello from Catacamas where we are visiting the (residential) farm school at El Sembrador. This is another WGM ministry that has been around since 1954 and we wanted to check it out. We came here Wed-- it took about 3 hours and Nate and I rode in the back of a pickup truck the whole way. It is interesting for us to see a very well established and successful ministry like this where underprivileged young men can come for schooling (high school) and learn a trade. Pastor Jorge Pinto (who founded Proyecto Manuelito) was a student at El Sembrador. We have visited the various vocational areas (woodworking, welding, mechanics), toured the 2000 acres of farm...very mountainous and jungle-like. Lemons the size of softballs, termite nests in trees, monkeys in the wild, Ellen held a newborn pig. We also had a chance to visit with 3 boys who were formerly at Manuelito who are now students at El Sembrador (Juan, David, and Alexander).
We return to Manuelito this afternoon and will have supper back at Manuelito. It will be nice to get "home" and see the kids again. Although we have NOT missed the Manuelito roosters crowing at all hours of the night!! And day!!
Everyone remains healthy and we REALLY appreciate your prayers for continued good health and good interactions with the kids and local people we work with on a daily basis.
Our Spanish is getting better -- we have tutoring Mon-Fri for 1-2 hours provided by a local pastor (female) -- we may have already mentioned that...not sure.
the picture we took yesterday in the jungle.
P.S. Nate's hair is now very short ---- he got a Honduran haircut last night. It takes FOREVER to upload pictures so we will try later.
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Good Pix of the family. Good to see you all looking so well!!I received you package today. I am working on geting them returned. They are all neatly packed back in the boxes!! Great to hear from you . In our prayers,
Love,
The Richerts
"Ellen held a newborn pig." Now that's a word picture. We continue to pray for you guys.
Steve & Ellie
Hi Chase,
I see your picture and now I am all"teary" eyed!! We miss you, but we know that you are where you need to be. I'll write more this weekend. I am at school now.
What you guys are doing is wonderful and exciting, even for we who aren't there! Good job! I hope you are keeping a journal of everything you do each day, and taking tons of pictures. We continue to think of you everyday. Greg, Nancy, HB
Hi Chase,
You missed celebrating Leap Year at school. That day which happened to be a Friday of this last week, we had Ja Biztown study things. Mrs. lake made us do this thing where she would give us a pertend money crad, then we could either choose answers to hard Ja biztown homework or choose extra recess for about 5 min. After some of us choose homework answers instead of extra recess, mrs. lake sweetend the deal to 10 min. of recess. After we were finished choosing, mrs. lake gave us the answers on the overhead. we actually found out it was some sort of word puzzle that i cant remeber its name. The thing is she showed it to everyone instead of just the people that choose the homework answers. All of us got ticked of at mrs. lake. Pretty soon mrs. lake told us it was a lesson and we didn't get to have ten min. of extra recess. We were so mad. It least the rest of the day got better. We all miss you and we hope you have a great time in honduras( is this how its spelled?)
See yah!
Gabi Anderson
fellow class mate
nice pic by the way!
Gabi
Hey all!! I'm so glad everything is going well for you guys..it sounds awesome. And the picture is really cool...you're in the jungle..awesome!! Still praying...:)
Amanda P
Today Molly enjoyed her own mini jungle, (our woods in our back yard) She experienced burrs and she doesn't like them. So then she and I both experienced a mini-bath in our bath tub. That was fun for one of us! I think has forgiven me, as she is asleep on my feet.
Starting my day praying for the Millers. Ending by thanking HIM of answers to prayer.
Hey kids,
It has been fun keeping up with your adventures! I'm living vicariously through you. Stay safe. Love, Shumate
Hi Chase, I will try this again. I just wrote you a long note,hit the publish button,and everything went white.I have no idea where the message went! As i said before,I like the POOP theme for class punishments. Next time you talk in class,I will let you shovel goose poop off the sidewalk OR clean toilets in the boys' bathroom! We miss you,Chase! Love,Mrs.Bower
Hi Nate, I really want to see you new Honduran hair cut! Mrs.Bower
Hi Millers from Amy Magan's house! Jane here -- using Amy's fingers on the keyboard and her knowledge of getting this message to you.
I've enjoyed reading your blog on Amy's computer. Am leaving my own handwritten version of "Jane notes" at your house, so I won't go into details. Am glad to know that you are well and mission is going according to God's plan.
Blessings always,
Jane
Hey Chase,
How is Honduras? We were there 2 years ago. We swam with the dolphins at Anthony's cay. Everybody in Mrs. Lakes class misses you. Hope you don't have to shovel too much poop. Hurry home.
Your buddy,
Travis Frist
Hello to all! It is a miserable,cold, and windy evening here in Indiana. I am thinking of the Millers in Honduras and I pray you are warm and safe. God's blessings to you.Marianne Bower
Hi guys, John Burrie sent your picture from the blog to Mom and Dad! M and D are keeping up on your news. It's a -25 windchill here today - how about you guys? Glad that things are going well. We keep you in our prayers. El, how are your teeth? A big hug to everybody. Love Susie
Enjoyed the pic of family. Sounds like all is well and that you're enjoying your experience in Talanga. I copied the blog info and gave it to Mom and Dad over the weekend ..... they enjoyed the picture and commented on how tan and healthy you all looked. You're in my prayers. Peter and I are looking forward to seeing you in Roatan and have all of our plans in place at this point. See you on March 29th.....we're staying at the Mame Tree and arriving at 2:30 PM. Looks like you're getting lots of mail from friends and family. Love you, Aunt Boo Boo
Thinking of you all each day! Ellen is cooking breakfast...!!!??
God is really testing you. Please let us know if there is anything we can pray for specifically! Besides a box of Frosted Flakes.
Love,
The Caldwells
Chase,
How are things in Honduras? Things are going fine here. Things were a little crazy today. First of all I got braces on my lower teeth and an expander on my top back molars. Pretty weird huh? Bad news, Mr. Lake took his chat thingamabob of his website. I am mad at him still. He said that innapropriete things were being put on there. Anyway, second of all, Mr. Johnson ran through our classroom as Zero the Hero again. At least you don't have to do two english worksheets today! Third of all, we have no class clown! We need you to send us a funny video of you scooping some sort of animal video to us. All it has been at school was work, work, and more work. We all really miss you Chase and we can't wait for you to come back.
Gabi Anderson
Mrs. Lakes Class
Hello Miller Family,
It is great to read the blog and learn about your life-changing adventures you are having in Honduras. We miss Alex here at school and look forward to her safe return.
Blessings to you y sus amigos hondurenos.
Great to here from all of you. Ellen I thoght the only PIG you would ever hold was Chuck. Just kidding, The Wainwright's are in daily prayer for all of you and look forward to all the stories when you get back.... Miss you all and God Bless..JW
Hi Chase,
How's it going? It's really quiet at school here without you. Mrs. Bower has no one to pick on in English. It is so cold and rainy here. I'm very jealous of you for being where it's warm. Have you had to pick up cow poop yet as a punishment?
See you later,
Hannah S.
Hi Chase, We are keeping your memory alive in the classroom. I used your name in all the sentences that I created in English as we studied adverbs. We really miss you! We are all well,but there is still lots of sneezing,coughing and snorting--enough to drive me CRAZY!! Love to all,Mrs.Bower
Millers-
It has been great to follow your adventures across the hemisphere. It's odd reading about all your adventures with the plumbing since I mostly catch up on your blog from my cell phone while I'm "using the plumbing" here. Ain't technology grand?
Great Scott (sobso1 -- Hi milga1 !!)
Hey Chase, how's it going up there? We had our easter party today, it was okay. We've been doing a lot of things in JA Biztown. We all miss you!
Jordan
From Mrs.Lakes & Mrs.Bower's & Mr.Lake's class room.
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