We have arrived in Copan Ruinas all safe and sound and glad to be here. Our trip was uneventful, which is really a good thing to be able to say about travel like this. The TACA desk at Dulles was actually open when we arrived on Tuesday night — the first time I've seen that happen since I joined this trip — so we were able to check our luggage right off the bat, and not sit around the airport floor with our bags all around us, camping out like vagabonds. It's amazing how hospitable an airport can seem when you're not lugging pounds of luggage around. And so we got to our gate and got on our plane and got in the air in good order. Changing planes in San Salvador was without hitch, and so was our arrival in San Pedro Sula.
About the only thing that was problematic in the journey was the bus ride from San Pedro Sula to Copan. The roads are bad this year — apparently it has rained a lot — and the bus was bouncier, jouncier, and more headache-inducing than in years past. There were some prodigious washouts on some mountainsides, which earned stares of admiration, and not a few gasps, from our crew as we drove by. But our driver Antonio is very skilled, and he handled the damaged roads and the consequently disorganized traffic with style and grace. And so we arrived.
Tomorrow morning we'll go to the worksite. Same church we've been working on the last couple of years. We're told that the roof is finished now, so we'll be working on inside stuff: floors and walls and tile work and things like that. It will be a new adventure for me, at least, since my previous trips have focused on outside work, digging and hauling rocks and making foundations. This will literally be seeing a new phase in working for the growth of this church. Maybe there's a metaphor there I can use in talking about our mission to build the church at home...
Pray for us in our work with our brothers and sisters in the church here in Honduras, and for the good mission of Christ being made manifest here.
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