Tales from Guillermo

Guillermo – This little 3rd grade boy was the highlight of my day! Every week I have his class, he always comes in full of energy and full of a very exaggerated story/lie, call it what you want haha. Today’s story happened to be about his trip last year around Thanksgiving time to hunt a turkey. I said” hunt a turkey how do you do that?” He responded “well with a hunting pole of course” I smiled as he continued with his story. He then began to proceed into all kinds of detail “well you see Mrs. We were headed to Turkey, the country but somehow our tickets got switched” I asked him “turkey? Why turkey?” to which he responded “um, that’s where your supposed to hunt for turkey’s” Silly me, how could I not have known. He continued with his story “So our tickets got switched and we ended up in Africa, well my dad said, since were in Africa, lets hunt a puma instead (a puma is the school mascot). So we hunted a puma, but I realized that instead of bringing my hunting pole, I accidently brought my fishing pole” well I asked him “Guillermo, how exactly did you catch a puma with a fishing pole?” to which he replied “I just hooked him well he was asleep, right on the tail Mrs. And you see it’s a good thing we caught the puma instead of a turkey b/c the car ran out of gas and the puma had to pull us back to the town” Well then of course I asked, “so how did you get this puma back to your house? He said “oh, they wouldn’t let us take it on the plane, so we decided to go to Asia.” And that was the end of his story, it was then that we had a fairly lengthy discussion about lying haha! The most concerning part is that the kids in his class really think his stories are true!

Date Night

Date Night: Honduras Style
You see most couples when they plan date night, they have so many options, and its so convenient. You decide on a restaurant, there are lots to choose from and a movie for the theater down the street. Then you have to decide on the order, dinner then a movie or movie then dinner? Or lets have more options, Eat out or take out, movie theater, or redbox, or netflixs, or itunes, or ppv . . . or you could go bowling, mini golfing, to the mall, to a concert or sporting event.  And then the how of getting to any of those places, well you just hop in your car of course : ) Couples, don’t ever jip yourselves of a date night, b/c you don’t realize how good you have it till you oh, I don’t know . . . live in Honduras, on a mountain, without a car. The point in me saying all of that is to let you all know how awesome my husband is, you see we don’t have any of those conveniences that I just mentioned. So my amazing husband had to put forth twice the effort to have a special date night with me : ) He took me to a restaurant called La Cumbre, it is located down the mountain a little ways from where we live (too far to walk). So he borrowed a car for the evening and we just enjoyed feeling like a normal US couple haha! I can’t tell you how nice it was to be in a car with just him. Usually when you go anywhere here in anyone’s car you are packed full. So for a moment it felt like we were in the US, until we turned on the road to go up to the restaurant . . . it was at that moment when I felt as though I might bounce through the roof that I was quickly reminded of where I was!  But being up on the side of the mountain, overlooking the city lights embraced by my wonderful husband, made every bump worth it! We were able to enjoy an amazing dinner by candle light, sharing memories and sweet words with one another about the journey we have been on, the joys and struggles of marriage and our love for one another! Marriage is a joy, and a journey, you get to see the best of one another and the worst. You share your greatest accomplishments, and your most challenging situations. You learn how selfish you can really be and what it looks like to be the most selfless you have ever been. You live and learn together, you laugh and cry, have good days and bad days. But some of what I have learned over the past few weeks and through devotions that Steve and I have been doing is that it is not your love that sustains your marriage, BUT marriage that sustains your love. Marriage is everlasting, when we focus on our marriage instead of the love were getting or receiving, it allows the marriage to be the safety net and not the love. Yes there is security in love, but there is eternity in marriage. I am learning that the goal is not to show that I love my husband, but to show that I love my Lord. I am so thankful that we have a heavenly father that has all of this figured out, because I sure don’t. He is the creator of marriage, the sustainer of marriage, and most importantly He is the author of marriage. May God be glorified in and through our marriage.