Our internet service expired today even though, while at West End last night, Chris went inside a small shack where he paid a shady looking guy our $8 fee for another week of internet access. $8 is supposed to get you one week of internet access at a time. So our day couldn’t be planned – no internet and no phone. So before trying to plan out our day, John decided to make the 10 minute drive to West End to get the problem resolved. It was just like out of the movies trying to talk to the shady guy in the shack who only spoke Spanish. John decided from all the yelling and hand waving that the guy was saying it was not his fault. So John decided to make the 45 minute drive to French Harbour to the main location of the internet store. The lady at the internet store told John that the phone number that had expired was different than the number that was used to renew for the next week. She was able to get it working, but by the time he got back it didn’t work. While John was gone Bev laid out in the sun in front of Casa Isabella. A lady and her aunt walking down the beach stopped and asked if she wanted a massage. Of course Bev couldn’t refuse helping their economy. So for the next hour Bev did her part of stimulating the Roatan economy by letting two Honduran ladies give her a massage right there on the beautiful beach. Of course we had to do a little fishing to finish out the day.

Ate breakfast at West Bay Lodge – we needed to be checked out by noon. John worked on the blog while Bev read. While John was carrying the luggage to the car, one of the suitcases caught a water faucet turning the water on full blast filling his shoe with water – oh well. We had the car packed up ready to go by noon, but Elmer and Andrea emailed and said we could not move back into one of the apartments until around 2:00 pm. So we just stayed at the West Bay Lodge and ate lunch at their restaurant. We sat at the restaurant and finished the blog and read some more. We got to Casa Isabella around 3:30 pm. We moved into the apartment right next door to our Canadian friends. John went fishing that evening while Chris, Ms. Sherry, Sharley, and Bev drove down to West End. They parked and walked down to Fosters on West End where Mark works. He’s the guy that has been cooking for the teams staying at Casa Isabella. In the restaurant there were people from Holland, Ireland, Canada, the U.S. and Honduras. What a group. I think we all had fun.

Ate breakfast at West Bay Lodge and then picked up Sharley and Ms. Sherry at Casa Isabella at 8:30 am. Got to Pastor Jennie’s church, Embassador of Change Church, around 9:30 am. Pastor Jennie’s adopted son, C.J., played the keyboard for worship and sang a special: “How He Loves”. They were so welcoming to the 4 of us. Pastor Jennie got up and spoke for a little while then introduced the two of us to speak to the church. John spoke first and used John 3:16 to talk about the gospel, how to be saved and how much Jesus loves us. Then Bev spoke from Ezekiel 36:26 and then finished with chapter 37, the story of the Dry Bones. It was a great experience for both of us. We did have an interpreter but some could speak English. Afterwards, Pastor Jennie asked Bev, “Are you sure you’re not a Pastor? You remind me of myself. You preach a lot like me”. Later she said Bev would make a good Pastor. There were 2 birthday’s in the service, so at the end we had birthday cake with the church body. We met some really great people. We met 2 people that were close to death (a young boy with diabetes and a lady who has the HIV virus) that God had healed after they prayed for them. They were both at church today. Sharley and Ms. Sherry stayed in Pandy Town to visit while we drove around Oak Ridge and then drove down a gravel road to Camp Bay which is farther east than Diamond Rock. When we got back to Casa Isabella to drop off the Canadians, we gave Selena the flash drive so she could mail it to our daughter Amy when she gets to the U.S. Selena is one of our many new friends we made from hanging out with the team from Texas. We got back to our room around 4:00 pm and then took a walk and ate dinner on the beach. Tomorrow we pack up and move back to Casa Isabella, hopefully for the remainder of our stay.

We got moved into West Bay Lodge by 8:00 am. We ate breakfast at their restaurant and then went and laid out by the pool for a short while. I say “short while” because the sun is very intense here. Instead of it being like an oven, it is more like a microwave. We ate lunch at their restaurant and on the way back we met one of the workers here named Melony. Turns out that she attends the oldest Methodist Church on the island where Joe Summers was the Pastor. Joe is the missionary that was staying in the apartment next to us that we met on July 24. She would like to one day go to the U.S. to become a nurse and then return to Roatan to help the people here. We left about 4:30 pm to go by the grocery store to pick up cookies and a 3 liter bottle of orange drink. We were the team parents tonight for Elmer’s ball team. We finally finished editing and copying all the videos we have thus far to a flash drive to send to Amy. The internet connection is to poor here to upload large files, so our daughter Amy is going to help us out by putting them on our blog. We will let you know when they are available. We think you will really enjoy viewing them. In the morning we are picking up Sharley and Ms. Sherry our new Canadian friends to go to Pastor Jennie’s church in Pandy Town.