Meet the President, Get Robbed: Just Another Day in Honduras | FanNation

Meet the President, Get Robbed: Just Another Day in Honduras | FanNation

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Teaching has been Fun

I have never taught in a formal setting before. This year I have been the PE, Art (yeah I was shocked too), English, Physics, and Literature teacher. I wanted to continue to build my relationship with the children from the garbage dump and teaching seemed like the best way. I have been working with 7th, 8th, and 9th grade and I love it.

As a youth pastor, on the best days I could spend a few hours with students trying to communicate God’s intent for their lives. Now, I get all day and the opportunity to share God’s message in so many different ways. I am so glad I have been able to teach.

Everyone knows how I love to read and now as the literature teacher I get to infect my students with a love of books. I am reading Around the World in 80 days, Call of the Wild, and many other books in Spanish with my kids. The best is that I have also started a Harry Potter Club in my community. Three times a week about 5 kids come by and I read them (translating as I go) book 7 since they have never read it before. I love. And so does Elijah.

All I need now is a Gator Club and all will be well.

Central American Football Tournament

I was selected to play on the Honduran National Football Team in a Central American Tournament in Managua, Nicaragua. We played in a four team tournament finishing in second place. We played in full length games on back to back days. But it was a once in a life time experience when you represent a country. Here are some pictures.

More pics at http://picasaweb.google.com/reyangeldiaz/CentralAmericanFootballTournament#

Day I met the President of Honduras

Yesterday, I met the President of Honduras and the First Lady.

It was an incredible experience.

Community

I thought I knew what a community was before I moved to Villa Linda Miller in Honduras. I was wrong.

This is a true community. Here are pictures from the entire church coming to surprise Elise, Elijah, and I for our birthday.

God is so Funny

I think God is the funniest guy. He has a sense of humor when it comes to me. I have not sacrificed much in coming to Honduras. I am not being modest, just sincere. If anything, I feel I have been so blessed in coming here. In fact the only thing that was hard to leave behind was sports. Just kidding, family too. But seriously sports are something I have been involved in my whole life and genuinely enjoy. I ran the athletic ministry at Washington Cathedral which means my job was to play in as many teams as I could possibly be in. I loved it. I was always playing football or basket or even dodgeball.

I am by no means a world class athlete, more of just a weekend warrior. I can hold my own in almost any sport except for soccer. And of course it is a sin to not play soccer in Honduras. I have learned to love the game but it is too late in my development to be any good at it. I can keep the game competitive against elementary students, but that is about it.

Well what do you know; I met a friend who was going to have me try to play on a basketball team. And even before that, one of the translator I hired for AFE, told me about an American Football league here in Tegus. I told him I was in… whatever I had to do. I showed up not realizing it was full-contact football with helmets and pads. I have not played this was since High School. Well I tried out and made the team and played my first game the next day as QB on LOS CUERVOS (The Crows). I loved it. We won and I will play until my body gives out. That is what is so funny. I gave up flag-football for God, and he blesses me with full-contact which is so much better. But I am getting old and could barely get out of bed the next day.

As another blessing, I started a Harry Potter reading club at Villa Linda Miller. About five teenagers come over every evening and I read them (translating) the seventh Harry Potter book. Yep I am so blessed.

Elijah's Second Birthday

This is why we moved to Villa Linda Miller.