Boot Camp training



boot camp

My summer started off with training in the swamps of Merritt Island, Florida, where I meet the 28 people that I would spend the rest of my summer with. (24 team members, 3 leaders, and 1 leader's kid)





The Big Top where many classes were taught and evening rallies held

While at boot Camp we learnt how to work as a team, listen to instructions, do dramas, and put on puppet shows. As well as living in tents, and washing ourselves and our clothes in buckets. We also had in-depth one on one evangelism training.  All of these things prepared us for our summer in Honduras, just not quite how we had imagined...




our tent site 'the Mosquito Museum'

The team work was invaluable as our arrival to Honduras not only gained us a new leader but also an unforeseen work project. Our extensive drama training wasn't used how we thought it would be as we almost never used the dramas we learnt. It gave us the skills though to learn whole dramas in short periods of time. Which proved valuable as we learnt many new dramas in Spanish from the Honduran TMI staff member whom we adopted as a leader.

Our team eating site where we would learn memory verses and songs,
dry out our feet, oh and eat.

Our puppetry skills never did get put to use in Honduras, but the choreographed numbers we learnt to accompany the puppets were useful when we learnt choreographed Spanish worship songs. We never did sleep in tents as we thought we would but we did have cramped living space as we often would all sleep (30 people and all of our supplies) in a one roomed church on concrete floors.  

That water might not look clean but it was all that we had
to clean our selves and our clothes

Our plumbing situation was really the only thing that turned out how we thought it would. Which meant buckets all round, for flushing, bathing, and laundry.





Our first view of Honduras

Our advanced Evangilisim classes came in handy when coming across people in airports and through travel. Knowing how to tell them about the love of God in easy to understand ways.





We traveled across many provinces in Honduras by bus.

Thanks and GOD Bless!!!
~Wiggles