SURVIVOR: HONDURAS

This week Mrs. Pam, Ben, and I have had a running joke. The joke is that if America decided to do a reality TV show on the farm it would be a hit! This all started earlier this week when Mrs. Pam was gone from the farm getting her passport from the capitol. It felt like every other second Ben or I was calling her and the other was yelling let me talk to her as well. As Ben passes me the phone, Mrs. Pam says to me, “Hey we could be on a reality tv show. We wouldn’t even have to fake anything. We have enough drama and interesting things happen to keep people watching for sure.” Ever since then, every time something happens one of us says, “add that to the tv show.” Mrs. Pam even named it! SURVIVORS: HONDURAS. Once you start pointing out all of the ridiculous, hysterical, and off the wall things that happen, you begin to realize just how often these things occur. From Mrs. Pam receiving an armadillo shell on a bright yellow string to hang on her front porch from one of her watchmen workers for her birthday to having the “Puberty speech” with 23 girls, from running home from school down the hills in the flooding rain to having birthday cake by candle light because the electricity had been out for almost 24 hours. I mean, ok maybe some of this stuff isn’t exactly entertaining for everyone but when we are in the midst of it all, it just seems hysterical and really makes us laugh.

Seeing as how I don’t have any children, I often wonder now how my parents didn’t just start busting out laughing when me and my siblings were in arguments. Children tell on each other over some of the silliest things. I have to hold back my laughter so many times when the girls come to tell on each other… “She looked at my panties!” (well, you shouldn’t have been jumping on the trampoline in a dress) How do you not laugh at that!?!? I am truly learning so much about grace and how to discipline girls not based on emotion but taking the time to make sure they understand the situation and why they are being disciplined so that it doesn’t continue to happen. God is growing and stretching me and He is good!

Saturday, by the grace of God, Mrs. Pam and I both learned how to jump start a vehicle. Mrs. Pam and one of the girls had a birthday this week so we were going to town for a pizza party (Ben was meeting us there). We all get in the bus and the battery was dead. After a few phone calls to check ourselves on what we thought we knew about jumping off a vehicle so that we didn’t cause permanent damage, we were successful in bringing the bus back to life, and both felt very empowered! GIRL POWER (ok the people I called were guys but that doesn’t count)! I would not like to know what it is like to tell 23 girls all dressed up sitting on a bus that the plans for the day were ruined based off of our lack of knowledge on vehicles. Thank you Jesus!

So we look forward to another productive week through the problem shooting, trials, and dramas at the farm on the newest reality show that happens to be my life, SURVIVORS: HONDURAS! (I think this week Mrs. Pam is teaching me to drive a stick shift, pray for us!) To God be the glory!

AP