Greetings from Honduras

This is under Kelly's blog, but Mike is sending it.
First we apologize for not sending more frequent blogs. We planned to send two a day, but because of limited computer availability and our busy schedule ( and I mean this), we just haven't been able to. We have a couple evening church services and have to shut down the computer by 8:00 PM because of the noice the generator makes. But we will blog when we can.
Today we had our second music ministry event. It was great, better than yesterday for a lot of reasons. Mostly because we actually know what we're doing and also because we feel more comfortable with our surroundings and the people. Because of advanced notice by Gladys, a local church activist, each day this week we have a two hour show at the local community center. Five groups and five individuals from the five local churches, lip sync to music. We are to judge them and we hand out prizes. We also do our own music with Billy on keyboards and Hurst and Kelly on guitar. Our interpreters also join in. We also read scripture and give a little testimony. Yesteray was OK, but today we seemed to be a big hit.
Our group, despite it's eclectic makeup really functions wonderfully as a group. I think the big surprise for us is that our interpreters, five kids aged about 13 to 17, have become a close integral part of our group. They are great kids, a lot of fun, help us enormously and make us all laugh. They have really taken to Billy, Eric and Ashleah.
We are all working hard, very hard on our Spanish song lyrics, but having fun doing it.
We are all well; no injuries; and no illnesses, particulary internally which we were all worried about. We all miss you but none of us have any regrets about coming to do what we are doing.
We have found out from Gladys that our presence and our music has actually had a positive influence on the youth of the community, which makes our mission successful.
We are all thinking of you.

Mike Swaney