September 2, 2009.
When everything changes in you life for 5 months you have a lot of “first times”. This was a first time but I hope it will not be a last. I got to go visit my sponsor child. We went and met him and his mom at the “project.” He still has normal school and everything but he receives a significant amount of extra help from Compassion. When I met him I was introduced as Jordan, his “padrino” which translates to godfather as well as sponsor or patron. He is adorable and it is just amazing to have a person and personality to put to a picture. I was toured around the Project and learned where everything went on and a bit about what Edgardo, my sponsor child, does there. After this we had a short visit at his home where I met his sisters as well. We chatted for a while about what they do and they asked me a few questions at well. It is a
fairly typical rural Honduran family who live in a house made of mud bricks. The father works in a field, the mother takes care of the house and sells a type of bread, and the family has been through a number of hard times. We had planned to take Edgardo and his mother to a mall where we could have lunch and play for a while, but I did not want to leave out his two sisters so I took them as well. I think it was a much better experience because the whole family was there, except for the father because he was working. We went to the newest mall in Tegucigalpa, the capital, where we went to KFC for lunch. We picked KFC because Edgardo’s favourite food is chicken. I found out after lunch that one of the mother’s dreams was to be able to take her family out for a meal like that. It is so difficult to explain the feeling of having helped someone accomplish a dream that they likely never would have accomplished. 
After lunch the kids and I went on a train that drives around the mall and a carousel because Edgardo also likes horses. This mall is absolutely gigantic which is difficult to picture in such a poor country but the capital is quite developed. They even had bumper boats which the youngest two went on. The last place we went was an arcade. The kids had so much fun and this is something they will probably remember for the rest of their lives. I know that I will never forget it. It was an amazing experience for both me and their family. The last thing I have to say is that God is great and I am so thankful to him that he would bless me with these amazing experiences. Gloria a Dios.
When everything changes in you life for 5 months you have a lot of “first times”. This was a first time but I hope it will not be a last. I got to go visit my sponsor child. We went and met him and his mom at the “project.” He still has normal school and everything but he receives a significant amount of extra help from Compassion. When I met him I was introduced as Jordan, his “padrino” which translates to godfather as well as sponsor or patron. He is adorable and it is just amazing to have a person and personality to put to a picture. I was toured around the Project and learned where everything went on and a bit about what Edgardo, my sponsor child, does there. After this we had a short visit at his home where I met his sisters as well. We chatted for a while about what they do and they asked me a few questions at well. It is a
fairly typical rural Honduran family who live in a house made of mud bricks. The father works in a field, the mother takes care of the house and sells a type of bread, and the family has been through a number of hard times. We had planned to take Edgardo and his mother to a mall where we could have lunch and play for a while, but I did not want to leave out his two sisters so I took them as well. I think it was a much better experience because the whole family was there, except for the father because he was working. We went to the newest mall in Tegucigalpa, the capital, where we went to KFC for lunch. We picked KFC because Edgardo’s favourite food is chicken. I found out after lunch that one of the mother’s dreams was to be able to take her family out for a meal like that. It is so difficult to explain the feeling of having helped someone accomplish a dream that they likely never would have accomplished. 
After lunch the kids and I went on a train that drives around the mall and a carousel because Edgardo also likes horses. This mall is absolutely gigantic which is difficult to picture in such a poor country but the capital is quite developed. They even had bumper boats which the youngest two went on. The last place we went was an arcade. The kids had so much fun and this is something they will probably remember for the rest of their lives. I know that I will never forget it. It was an amazing experience for both me and their family. The last thing I have to say is that God is great and I am so thankful to him that he would bless me with these amazing experiences. Gloria a Dios.
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