Warren family update

Hello everyone!! We are well, and we hope you are too!!!!!!

We've had a very busy couple of weeks! First, a group of 32 young adults from a discipleship school called Kairos were here for a couple of weeks, and we had a great time with them! Andy took a trip to the mountains as Mak and I stayed back and held down the fort at home! It was our first time at our house without Andy, and God blessed us with peace and no fears! That was quite a blessing for mom! :)

We now have the money to replace our roof! We are praising God for the blessing. Right now, it has been raining a lot, so we really need to replace it soon. The plan is to purchase materials this week andput it on as soon as we have a couple of dry days. We are SO excitedto not have to cover everything before leaving the house! THANK YOU GOD!

Mak is doing really well. Yesterday, for lunch, I made her “buy” all of the items to make her jelly sandwich, chips and glass of water. She is learning about Pennies, Nickels, Dimes and Dollar Bills… their value and what they are called. She has had a hard time relating as to which is what, so I figured for her to get out her play money and buy all needed for lunch would help! Now, however, every time she eats, she asks if she needs to “buy” it. We better be careful, a team may come down and hear her say that and think we are LITERALLY making her buy stuff to eat! Oh wow!

Andy is headed to the mountains tomorrow to purchase some coffee from one of the growers, and I always look forward to hearing what God does with his time there. I am praying that the coffee looks great, and that God would continue to use Andy through the coffee!

I am keeping busy in the Mercy International office, and am almost caught up on
the months that we were gone to the US! I am excited toget 2010 out from under my nose and put into the box! :) Last weekend, we received a call from a couple that the wife is American and the husband is Honduran. They asked if Mak and I wanted to go tothe park, and we had a great time! (I got a little sunburn, but still enjoyed my time!) See a picture with Andy and Sofia attached eating their suckers!

So, for those of you getting this from Grace Church, I want to make a little plug... June 21st – 28th, Grace will be bringing a team down to see us! I also know that there are a few ladies receiving this from last fall’s Beth Moore study – I am sure that you guys could hook up with Grace to come down if you so desire…. Just write me back and I will get you contact information for the leaders! We would love to have you all here! (Hey mom, maybe this year!!!????)

Also, I want to tell you guys about something else going on that needs some “extra special prayer”. We have twin babies that were brought to the farm a few days ago. They were 2.5 pounds each, a boy and a girl. Their mother was sick in the hospital, and they were being cared forby other family members. After a trip to the pediatrician that we trust, Mercy has taken on the cleaning of bottles (two different ways) and the giving of CLEAN water for their bottles. These little babies are only living through the grace of God, and we are so blessed to see them growing slightly. Would you please pray for them? I am attaching a picture of one next to the hand of Cindy Lowman just to give you an idea of how small they are.

We are so blessed, and always love hearing from you all! We wish youthe best week and thank you as always for your prayers!

Chili Peppers update

Well it has been three weeks since I planted my chili peppers. So far I am having mixed results, our Honduran helper Jorge has been advising me of a couple of different things to do to get better results. However the little results I do have ten little green sprouts sticking out of the dirt. Whoo Hoo. I have planted over sixty seeds so I have my fingers crossed. I can taste the salsa now.

I have another planting project going at our house, this one involves Makenzie. She helped me plant the seeds and is watering the plants everyday. We started this project about a week and a half ago and already have three sprouts showing. Who knows maybe Makenzie has a green thumb.

Super Bowl Fiesta

Hello everyone! We hope you are all doing well! It is amazing at how fast the times are changing here in Honduras. Two years ago we got to watch the Superbowl on Spanish TV, everything was in Spanish and we didn't get to see all the great commercials. Today we are preparing a Superbowl fiesta, and are going to get to see the game via American TV in English and with American commercials. (We know that is the real reason for watching the Superbowl)

Over the weekend we travelled to Gracias, Lempira, Honduras it isabout an hour and a half from where we live, a few years ago it wouldhave taken four hours to get there. Our purpose for this trip was tomarry off one of our very own. A missionary student that we love verymuch, Carlos, married his sweetie, Rina (say ree-nuh). It was abeautiful wedding, and we were blessed to have the opportunity to bethere! We met some awesome people, and had an awesome time offellowship. I also got my Honduras drivers license while there, and Andy got to go exploring, he visited two different natural hot spring parks, a good way to unwind before our next group comes in on Wed. We really had a great time!

Well, we've gotten the price to replace our roof. $1,200 - Andy met with the landlord and he agreed to let us do it (Andy can do it with the help of a few people) and take it off the upcoming payments for rent! This is good because we can get it done on our own schedule and can work on it around our teams. Would you please pray with us that God would provide all that is needed at the right time!?!? We will do one section to help financially, and then wait until the next month to do the other section.

Makenzie is doing really good. She has totally adjusted to being back home. She misses everyone in the states, but she's fitting right in here! :) She's doing school, and having fun with it - and a few challenges, but that's just part of it! :)

We're excited to see our vehicle fund growing! Thank you to all of you that have contributed. We are not quite to the point of looking for a vehicle yet, but it's definitely close! Our goal is to raise12,000 and we are currently at 8,250, Praise God for his provisions!

We do officially have our own Internet connection now. We are excited to be able to see friends and family! It's not perfect connection -but we can at least see people for a few minutes at a time! :)

Chili Peppers

I love hot peppers. I love them roasted put into salsas, on top of burgers, on nachos, just about anyway you can eat a pepper I love them. When we are in the states people ask us what do you miss in-regards to food. My response seems funny to most. I miss Salsa and hot foods.

Here in Honduras we do not get to enjoy a lot of hot foods (Spicy). Most Hondurans do not like the really spicy foods. Even though they have bottles of hot sauce on the table ready for every meal.

One day last fall when I was in the market I found a bag of habenaro's and thought I struck gold. The ladies in the market thought it was funny, they made a face indicating the peppers were horid and would set you on fire. True it may be tough to handle if your not use to eating and preparing them. I brought the habenaro's back to the farm with a couple different varities of tomatoes and made my own salsa. The ladies in the kitchen thought I had lost my mind and when Suyapa tried some of the habenaro salsa, she looked like she was going to cry. Lets just say it was a little on the hot side. When we would eat the salsa they would just watch us and laugh and waited for something to happen.

Today I am trying something new. I planted two seed packets. One is a mix of cayeene, hungarian wax, serrano, habenaro, hot cherry and other hot chili types. The other is a packet of hungarian hot wax peppers. Several years ago I planted some Jalapeno's in Fayetteville and they grew ok. But this is a first for me to try to do here in Honduras. So here I begin a blog on my chili pepper growing adventure. I pray it is a success and can not wait to be writting updates on how the peppers are growing. And ultimately making my own salsa out of my own home grown chilis.

Happy and Healthy New Year of 2011

One of my many New Year resolutions is to keep posts up to date on this Blog. Here is my first of many (hopefully)

Our latest update that was sent out today: (if you would like to be on our email update list, let me know!)

Hello all! We hope this finds you happy and healthy in the new year of 2011!
We have been very blessed here in the United States, and our time is
coming to an end. Our appointments have been God directed, our visits
have been God centered, and our time has been surrounded by God!
Needless to say we have been truly blessed.

We have just purchased our tickets to return to Honduras on January
18, 2011. So, I know there are a few of you that have expressed
interest in seeing us - please get back with us and we will try to get
our schedules worked out.
Our Christmas was beyond blessed in many ways, and we are looking
forward to our coming year being blessed in Honduras!
We look forward to hearing from each of you in the coming year... even
if it is just for a prayer request. We love hearing from you.

We have a few prayer requests that we would like to share with you:
-For the people of Yamarangula. We love them so much and are so
excited to return!
-Every time we purchase our tickets to return to Honduras, Satan
really tries to get after us, please help us pray this out!
-We need to replace our roof on our new house in Honduras, we have a
need for about $1500 that has not been met yet, and we MUST get this
done fairly quickly after our return. Please pray for provisions to
do so.
-We have been blessed by a few new monthly supporters this year, and
we are so excited to have you on board! We continue to ask for more
people to help so that we can do more for the country and people of
Honduras. We will accept donations of any amount. Would you please
pray to see if God is calling you to help?
-As we gear down for our time to end here, we have expenses that come
up, and we are praying this year as always, that He will provide
everything that we need.

15 day journey of language school

Day 6
Today was our last day of class at Guacamaya Language school in Copan. I feel that this has been a very good week for us, well I can speak for myself, that this was needed 2 years ago. And I know for sure that I need to go for another 3 - 6 months. I want to communicate and need to communicate here in Honduras. As a local friend pointed out to me the other day, I sound like a Gringo. I dont want to sound like a Gringo anymore, it is time to start living Honduran!!! I really enjoyed my teacher Duneska and Corbett really enjoyed her teacher as well. We feel that this might be the place we will return to for the duration of our school experience. Todays class was extremly hard for me. We were behind and so we tried to cram four iregular verbs into one day's worth of lessons. Not cool, my brain couldnt handle it. Well at least I know where I will need to pick up next week when we travel to Trujilla for another week of language school. A new week and a new school, new teachers and location. Hopefully we will have as good a week as we had this week. This afternoon Corbett will go to learn how to make a pasterila (something that is common here in Copan). I like them so that is a good thing.

Tomorrow we will leave for San Pedro to pick up Makenzie, she has been with Cindy and Henry all week getting spoiled. Next week will be very difficult for us I fear. Our child may be rebleous to us. Only time will tell. Our bus leaves Copan at 7 am. We were talking to our house lady about when we were going to leave. When we told her that we were going to take the 10:15 bus, she said o no, there is not a 10:15 bus, only early morning and late in the afternoon. We were told by the agent in San Pedro that a bus left from Copan at that time. Another reason we need spanish, in the morning the last bus that leaves is 7am . Then the next one that leaves is 2 in the afternoon. It's a good thing we went to purchase our tickets today. Long day tomorrow and I am not looking forward to it. I really dont want to leave here even though it is expensive here.

15 day journey of language school day 5

Day 5
We had eggs and toast and more fruit. I love the fruit here. My wife doesn’t. She doesn’t like fruit in general, a little on the weird side. Class was good today. My Teacher gave me a 97% on my memory skills with the occupation cards. I had 3 that I struggled with on the pronunciations. Well that’s better than what I use to get in school and yesterday I couldn’t remember 15 of them. So it is true the older you get the wiser. Yea whatever. I tried a joqcotes today. Its some type of fruit. I really liked it. It was similar in texture to a plum but tastes totally different, and the size of the fruit is similar to a large cherry. Today was the 1st day my brain started shutting down. The last 30 min of class was horrible. Its like I took a sleeping pill for my brain. One step forward 2 steps back. I learned today that my teacher is not a Christian or catholic. But because of my lack of Spanish, sentences are hard to come by and I was not able to ask her any questions about it. So that is something I need to pray about. This afternoon we went to the Copan Ruins the main brain spot of the ancient Mayans. It is a really cool place to visit. To learn of a lost people group and see the art work they produced around 700BC. We hired a tour guide. Very necessary for the 1st time to visitors. There were only a few signs explaining what was going on, what each structure meant and why they disappeared. The guide was not cheap but necessary and worth it. We learned a lot about the Mayan culture. I took a lot of pictures but found out that my camera chip is corrupt again. I only got 8 pictures. So this is the 3rd time I have taken pictures this year and lost them because of my memory chip. At least it worked yesterday at the bird park. After the park we went to a coffee shop that has free internet. Good coffee and great chocolate cake. I got to check up on several things and emails and all is well. I better go study my verbs. I have many words to remember.