Counting Down

Well, I have a few more weeks left here in Honduras. It's hard to believe it's been two months since I boarded a plane with Dad and Daniel. In a way, it feels like I've been here for years. In other ways, it feels like ten minutes.

This last week we went to the Copan Mayan ruins!

Now, I haven't done a whole lot of studying about Mayan history or anything, which made going to the ruins even more amazing and fascinating as I learned about their culture. The Mayan empire was absolutely incredible, and although they were a brutal and completely messed up culture, they were genius, and built some absolutely gorgeous structures.

Did you know the Mayans actually did the things that they do in Indiana Jones?... Like, the whole thing where they take the beating heart out of that guy's body... They really did that! The really sad thing was that they sacrificed infants. They had a lot of gods (that we got to see the statues of) and did a lot of sacrificing in order to please them.

So anyways, that was really fun. After we went to the ruins, we still had half the day left, so we went to a 'bird park' where they have, in captivity, a bunch of the native birds. That was really really cool too. Honduras has waaayyyy better birds than we do...

Mackaws live up to 100 years in captivity and mate for life. They also are extremely beautiful and make extremely loud and obnoxious noises. If I was an animal, I'm pretty sure I'd want to be  Mackaw. =)

Then a couple of days after we got back from Copan, I had the pleasure of getting another sortof taste at the missionary life- I got a nice little (or, not so little) stomach bug! I would have guessed it was food poisoning, but since no one else really got sick, I'm guessing it may have just been a virus. Anyways, that knocked me out for Sunday and Monday. No fun. As Amy put it, I was... "one with the bathroom." That's pretty much how I felt. But the Hills were troopers- they cleaned up after me, got me medicine and gatorade, and made SURE I was getting enough liquids. I am very grateful to them for that. =)

These last couple of weeks I will continue to help with kids and schoolwork and such.

Pray that these last days would be meaningful and that I would be able to use them well and be in service to the Hills.

Con Mucho Amor,

Bethany