Flat Tires, Lost Phone, and how important just a hug can be to a child.

A bridge on fire, a flat tire and a phone lost on a mountain road—yet the moments that mattered were quieter: a mother rising from her bed to sing, a hundred kids tackling the “villain” in a skit, and a line of children who would not let go of a hug. Kent sits down with Haley Hopson, Debbie Hopson, and Cheyenne DeSell to unpack a Honduras trip that tested nerves and deepened faith, from airport chaos to altar calls that felt like home.

Chapters

• 0:00 Meet The Team And The Mission
• 2:45 First Flights, Storms, And Sketchy Hotel
• 6:30 Protests, Fires, And Street-Side Kindness
• 10:20 Prepping Toys, Food Boxes, And Skits
• 14:05 Day One Crusades And Patient Crowds
• 18:30 The Drunk On The Road And Compassion
• 22:00 School Outreach And A Healing Prayer
• 26:30 Worship Night At New Jerusalem
• 30:10 Flat Tire, Lost Phone, Protected Journey
• 34:20 Hugs, Fatherlessness, And Tears
• 38:00 Greenhouse, School Build, And Growth
• 41:20 Travel Lessons, Airports, And Next Steps
• 45:00 Personal Takeaways And A Call To Serve
• 49:30 Host Reflections, Schedule, And Support

Transcript

SPEAKER_03: 0:06

Hey everybody, welcome back to the Gods with One Podcast. I'm your host, Kent, and today uh we doing something new. We've and when I say new, I mean amount of guests we got with us. Today I've got three special guests: Haley Hobson, Debbie Hobson, and Shine DeSell, all in this room with me at the same time with three mics and four people. Thank y'all for being here today.

SPEAKER_02: 0:26

Good to be here.

SPEAKER_03: 0:28

So, what we're doing today is all three of y'all went on a trip together with a one of the biggest groups we've ever had. So we're just going to be talking about that trip today. So, to start out, how many people were on that trip?

SPEAKER_02: 0:41

In uh let's see, in our group, we had 13. Yeah, 13. And then uh FGT had 21.

SPEAKER_03: 0:50

It was the so I was supposed to go on this trip. I didn't have to deal with all the group because I didn't end up going on the trip. I ended up going on a nice small trip with just four or five people. No, five or six, five about five people. So I know it was chaos, but it was also a phenomenal trip. I heard stuff that happened. So to start out, we're gonna talk about each of y'all's uh figure getting to go and stuff, talking about how y'all ended up getting to go. So, Sister Debbie, you can go ahead and start Shine. You can go, or Haley, you can go and then Shine you can go next.

SPEAKER_02: 1:22

Okay, well, um I went on this trip. Uh, it was my second trip to go down to help with God's little ones on a this children's crusade was the the main gist of it, and um sorting out toys, clothing, book bags, things of that sort, and getting to go out to the different churches, and we got to go to two schools and uh like government schools, not just schools that were in churches, but government schools, and that was the first time I ever experienced that, but that was our reason for getting to go, and I was I was invited to go, so Haley.

SPEAKER_01: 2:00

This was uh my fifth trip, I believe, and I was able to go to my grandmother. She supported me, and I was able to go, she bought my ticket and whatever money I needed to spend there, and uh McKenzie Sweeney actually invited me, so I was I'm always excited to go to Honduras, but yeah, I've been a few times, so but it was awesome.

SPEAKER_03: 2:19

Yeah, McKenzie was over really over all the kids' crusade and stuff, and I didn't realize it was five trips. Thank you for telling me that. Maybe we gotta do this again, Haley. I know how thrilled you were to be on. I'm just I'm just playing with you anyway. Shine, you go ahead.

SPEAKER_00: 2:33

Well, this was my very first trip. And uh it was my parents made the way, it was basically a Christmas present for me to go on my very first one, and I was really thrilled to go on this very this one because it's something I love to do.

SPEAKER_03: 2:49

I know you've been dying to go. You've I'm glad you finally got to go.

SPEAKER_01: 2:53

It was your first time to fly an airplane too, right? Oh, it was so scary.

SPEAKER_03: 2:57

So we'll we'll go ahead and start talking about the trip. We'll talk to you about for your first time flying, talk about the experience.

SPEAKER_00: 3:03

Um and the driving. Regardless to say, I do not like taking off or landing.

SPEAKER_03: 3:09

I love the takeoff and landing.

SPEAKER_00: 3:11

I don't see how, honestly. It's fun. It scares me literally half to death. You can Haley can tell you, you can see the anxiety radiating off me. It was it was bad, but I was fine when we was like flying through the air. I was looking out the window and everything. But um, landing was way worse in the States. I don't like landing at all. I feel like we're gonna crush.

SPEAKER_03: 3:34

On our last trip, it seriously felt like the guy just he just goes and just all of a sudden just drops. It was a pretty rough landing on our last one. It was pretty bad.

SPEAKER_02: 3:42

Well, we also for her, she doesn't even realize, but it was her first flight, and we had to fly 45 extra minutes out of the way because of a storm. Oh my lord. She didn't get to Oh, y'all didn't fly in the rain?

SPEAKER_03: 3:54

Or did y'all?

SPEAKER_02: 3:54

We went we went around the round the goal. It was fat weather. So we had to fly even longer.

SPEAKER_03: 3:59

Well, that made it a little more stressful.

SPEAKER_02: 4:03

For sure.

SPEAKER_03: 4:04

So talk about the drive out there because I know it's it was a it was not normal as it usually is the drive in.

SPEAKER_01: 4:09

In hunters?

SPEAKER_03: 4:10

Yes.

SPEAKER_01: 4:10

Oh yeah. So we got there, it was pretty late because we had an e or afternoon flight. Um, and it was it started raining, the traffic was crazy. So it took we didn't actually plan to get a hotel that night at first. We're just gonna drive straight to the clothes center. And uh but since the weather and the traffic and all that was so bad, we ended up getting a hotel. The hotel was sketchy. We was the only guest there, it was nobody there, one guard, so we was like making sure we were staying safe and everybody had somebody with them at all times because it was a little sketch.

SPEAKER_03: 4:46

Yeah, I remember so I know the hotel y'all was supposed to stay at. I've stayed there before, it's usually been a nice hotel, but I know t y'all can talk about the experience of change in hotels and stuff, so Debbie, if you want to.

SPEAKER_02: 4:57

Well, the um like the first time we went, we stayed at that hotel also, and it was a nice power. It was like they were swimming in the swimming pool, rooms. It was it was flourishing. And going it was just been two years since I've been, and we when we went there, you can obviously tell something is wrong because like the pool was not open, it was dingy, and like Haley said, we were the only people staying there. The restaurant had also closed, so we didn't have a way to eat at that restaurant. And brother Danny, thankfully, he was wise, and we ate in um San Pedro Sula as soon as we got off the airplane. He said, Let's go, let's just go eat because we didn't know what we were fixing to face, and thankfully we did because that was because of the rain and having to stay over. We wouldn't have had we wouldn't have been able to eat at a f at a restaurant. We had snacks and stuff, but nobody was gonna starve. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 5:52

Yeah, I'm good. Danny actually told me they're gonna start whenever they do that, they're gonna start staying at that other hotel y'all went to that time now.

SPEAKER_01: 5:59

Yes.

SPEAKER_03: 5:59

They he didn't have a lot of things.

SPEAKER_01: 6:00

Yeah, we actually saw the other hotel the next morning for breakfast. We went and ate we walked across the street and ate there for breakfast, and he was able to check out the the hotel. Yeah. So if we ever do go back and have to stop halfway, will we use that hotel?

SPEAKER_03: 6:14

No, there's trips where you don't end up being able to stay. Yeah, you go all the way up like y'all was planning on doing. That helps it to where you can do more on a trip. You don't have to take the time to stay the night and then drive up the next day. You have the next whole day you can do stuff. Yes. So uh I'm gonna go ahead and go out of order with this. I want to talk about everything that happened on the mountain separate. So to start out, Shannon, or to continue, I want you to talk about what happened on the way back.

SPEAKER_00: 6:41

On the way back from the trip?

SPEAKER_03: 6:42

Yes. The protest.

SPEAKER_00: 6:47

Oh, I was about to say I had to re rethink everything. No, yeah, there it was like what was it, a two-hour, two and a half hour wait. We had to sit still. Yeah, we were sitting still for like two hours, and it was apparently a protest going on about like a factory going being uh shut down and demolished. They were trying to protest against the government.

SPEAKER_05: 7:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 7:09

And uh for what was it, Workman's Comp.

SPEAKER_02: 7:13

The government was supposed to give them the funds, but they chose not to. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 7:18

Yeah. And um, but we were they literally lit the entire bridge on fire as well as a vehicle on fire. I have pictures. What a first trip. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 7:30

So it was like three hours into the drive. So for us to go around it and not have to cross it, we had to we would have to drive back two hours to get on another road. So you just so it wasn't worth yeah, it wasn't worth it. So we just sat there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 7:44

And I I heard about y'all uh getting sick. Or people getting sick. Did you did you do did you get sick from it?

SPEAKER_00: 7:51

I got sick, but it wasn't in the way everybody else did.

SPEAKER_03: 7:53

So explain that. Because Abby, Abby was messing with Esau, by the way, when we was up there.

SPEAKER_02: 7:58

Well, we there we happened to be stopped right by a little side road, um, oh what do they call them? Markets or groceries, something like that. And so they went up there and um Esauck, our one Brother Luis's son, he um went up there and uh talked to the people and got some drinks and everything, and then he uh also asked, could we use their restroom? So these people were so nice to let us go in their home. It wasn't the marketplaces restaurant, they let us go into their home and use their bathroom.

SPEAKER_05: 8:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 8:31

So we wanted to bless them back by asking them, like, well, do they serve food? And we wanted, you know, to give them, you know, some business. And she said, Yes, she would make baliatises for us. And did I say that pretty good?

SPEAKER_03: 8:44

Baleatas.

SPEAKER_02: 8:45

Okay. All right, and so I had no idea what they were, but you know, I was hungry and we wanted to be not kind.

SPEAKER_03: 8:51

You all was sitting there so long.

SPEAKER_02: 8:52

Yeah, and they're they're sitting in the back of the truck playing Uno, and I'm just like it because it wasn't really towards the riot wasn't towards anybody out of state, so we really didn't feel like we were we we didn't feel any danger, I'll say that. Even though we might have, but God gave us peace on that.

SPEAKER_03: 9:09

Nobody got hurt.

SPEAKER_02: 9:09

No one. Well, and so it was us in there. And so we all uh well, most of us, I think Haley and Dalton uh Bray were the only two that didn't eat a baliatis, and they were the only two that didn't get some kind of something. Now I don't know what Shine got, but the rest of us, it tore our stomachs up when we got back to the States and put some of us down for a you know a little while. But oh yeah, it took about a week to get recovered.

SPEAKER_03: 9:36

I got bad, she told me.

SPEAKER_02: 9:37

It was bad.

SPEAKER_03: 9:38

Well, we was up there and she said stuff multiple times because so Esau is brother Luis's son, and she said stuff to him multiple times because apparently she she said it was like he's the one who had got it, yeah, or something. So she she gave him a hard time for it. So to talk about I know y'all had dealt with so much sickness up there while I was there, like so many people got sick.

SPEAKER_02: 10:00

Well, only uh I only know of one, and that was uh Ariana. Arianna. She uh got sick a little bit, a little bit, yeah, yeah. But as far as food poison-wise, I think or I that was the worst, yeah. That was the worst, and that didn't hit us till we were back in the States, thankfully, because bathrooms over there are not bathrooms in the States. They're just not. So it's thankfully we didn't get sick till we got back home. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 10:28

So talking about y'all got up the mountain, talk about the first day, Sean.

SPEAKER_00: 10:35

Um, well the first day when we got to the Glow Center, we immediately like started working on uh getting the backpacks and the toys and the stuffed animals together to go into the villages. And we were I was sorting like all the stiffer stuffed animals from the smallest to the biggest to the ones that weren't rat infested. I found uh we actually found a box that was rat infested. Oh really? Yeah, it was anyway, and then my I don't know, I don't remember what everyone else was doing, but they were gathering toy toys. We were separating uh food boxes and um bowls and plates, and we were separating boys and girls toys, baby toys. We were doing all of that on that uh first day and just getting everything prepared for the villages.

SPEAKER_03: 11:19

Right. And y'all, so on that, y'all did toy drives and y'all did kids' crusades. So I'm kind of just gonna sit back and let y'all can just all reminisce about it and just tell tell the stories from the starting at day one. Uh go ahead, Haley. I'll I'll I'll I'll I'll tell you to do it if I need if I if I have to make it, Haley. I'll let y'all know it was like pulling teeth to get Haley to get in here. But uh I'm glad you finally were able to finally came. So thank you. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_01: 11:49

I'm trying to remember. Uh so day one, we actually had three places to go, and that was crazy because we all had the people to do it. Yeah, we we did for sure. But like, so it was almost like two different groups because it's like house of prayer people, and then it was like FGT people. Yeah. So we the HOP people stayed at the Glow Center, and the FGT people would meet us later on in the day. So we pretty much just our church, we get everything together and then load up the truck and then the people who came with on the club. Yeah, and they would come eat breakfast with us and we'll head out. But the first day, so we had three places to go, and we it's usually like one or two. Yeah. So we was like, oh gosh. So we actually the first day we practiced, right? Yes. We practiced our skits and stuff because none of us worked all together before ever, I don't think. It was like our first time. It was different people, yeah. Yeah, I'm telling you.

SPEAKER_02: 12:40

They flowed, it flowed so the unity was was there.

SPEAKER_01: 12:45

Thank it was there. Yeah. So McKenzie and Dre and Abby got the skit together, wrote it out, and they picked who they wanted for each part. So we basically knew what was happening. We just wasn't able to practice till we got in Honduras. Right. Yeah. Um, so the first place, where do we go the first place? Uh the one that's down on the hill.

SPEAKER_02: 13:03

Um like we don't know all the names, but I mean the main one. I don't think it's brother. It's one of the bigger churches. Was it Brother Pascual? No, that's uh I think I so I was where you lost your phone. That's where you lost your phone. Yeah. That was New Jerusalem.

SPEAKER_03: 13:19

New Jerusalem, yes.

SPEAKER_02: 13:20

Yeah, because they got they didn't have a toilet the first year.

SPEAKER_04: 13:22

We were I'm sorry, I had to You're really leaving me on that.

SPEAKER_02: 13:26

I was sick on my first trip. I'm telling y'all, after the I now I was sick. I uh but that didn't come from over there. Somebody from uh that flu came in with us had a virus in Missouri. Yes, and I got that. But no, but now they have a a rest they have a toilet. Now it doesn't flush or anything like that, but they have one. It's amazing. I don't know what the name of that church is. I think we come back. But yeah, so we went to that church first, and they always serve us coffee and um like the bread stuff, but but it's sweet, the sweet, like the sweet bread, yeah. And it's it's wonderful because like it's black coffee with sugar, yeah, and I can do that. And so it they're so sweet to us there, and their church is growing. It's amazing. That's why I was like, you know, I say that it's growing in people, not just restrooms, but it was just it was great. They the their spirit there was it was just it was so so sweet. It was a good place to go first, you know.

SPEAKER_01: 14:22

It wasn't like the biggest crowd, but it wasn't like tiny either. So it was like a good and they got in first start.

SPEAKER_02: 14:28

Oh, yes, and they even the little kids even quoted scriptures and sang songs for us, which was such a blessing.

SPEAKER_05: 14:33

That's cool.

SPEAKER_01: 14:34

So yeah, it went pretty good to be our first time. Yeah. And then what we had to rush to the second one because it's only like a two-hour diff like time period that we had to go to the next one. So we'd like to throw in anything, like, let's go, let's go. So we went straight. We went straight to the second one, right? We didn't even get to stop at the glow center. No, because we packed for two. Yes.

SPEAKER_03: 14:51

Sean, tell me about the second second one.

SPEAKER_00: 14:53

Well, first on the drive to the second one, we found a guy that we thought was dead on the side of the road, but he was just passed out drunk.

SPEAKER_05: 15:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 15:01

And uh, who who was it that helped him? I know it was Benjamin and who else? Yeah, Benjamin and Esau, uh, they helped him back to his house.

SPEAKER_02: 15:09

They had to pick him up.

SPEAKER_00: 15:10

Yeah, they had to pick him up by his arms and legs just to bring him back to the house.

SPEAKER_02: 15:13

It was really it was scary at first.

SPEAKER_00: 15:15

Yeah, yeah, but then it turned out to be sad because of the circumstance.

SPEAKER_05: 15:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 15:19

Yeah, we we were all thinking he was dead because he was face forward, just in the ground, and everybody was pointing and uh like pointing toward the houses and the man, some people behind the house, and yeah. It was just a whole ordeal that we were afraid. But when we found out he was just passed out drunk, we just felt sorry, and I said a little prayer just to you know help the family and stuff. But then when we got to the church, we rushed everything in, hurry up and set up everything, and uh try to visit with the kids a little bit, try to fill in some time while we uh got ready. Got ready. Yeah, and it was just amazing to see how much the kids interacted and were so in involved and in tune with what we were trying to teach them. It was amazing to see. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 16:02

And you I don't know if you remember, but they had we were late getting there, and they were so patient. We were like an hour late getting to there, and they were still so excited and waited. You know, here somebody don't show up in an hour, you're like, or five minutes, you're like, I'm gone, I got other things to do. But they they were hungry for yes, and so we we apologize for being late, but uh there was that, and not only the the man we were trying to help, but just you know, yeah, it's the mountains driving through is pretty difficult, but yeah, that was a good one. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 16:34

We had to go back and restock to go to the next one, right? But that one wasn't until a little later. I think it was at three that we had to go to that one, so we had time to prepare. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 16:44

Is that the day you lost your phone?

SPEAKER_00: 16:45

No, my husband.

SPEAKER_03: 16:47

Okay, we'll wait, we'll wait on that. So tell me about the last one, Sister Debbie. Tell me about the last one you got. Or did anything else interesting?

SPEAKER_00: 16:59

The last one was a church, too. It was a church. Uh some up and like up and was that the one where y'all went and prayed for the one lady? No, that was the school.

SPEAKER_03: 17:08

Okay.

unknown: 17:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_00: 17:10

I don't remember. Well, I have pictures.

SPEAKER_03: 17:11

We'll we'll move on then. We'll move on. So, did anything else interesting happen that day that y'all want to talk about?

SPEAKER_01: 17:16

I think it flowed pretty smoothly. Yeah, it did. It did. We had to go and cook, so we had to like reclean all the dishes. Because you don't want to use stuff that's sitting there forever. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 17:27

Abby told me she was getting sick of pancakes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 17:30

Have pancakes every morning and eggs and baking. Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_02: 17:33

When I got back to the States, I remember. Oh my gosh. She should have done here and she should have getting on to you. Can't we had a great time? I mean, it's, you know, not only just getting out to be with us, but us ourselves, just joking and laughing and picking at each other. It just bonds. It makes, you know, it's memories you just don't forget.

SPEAKER_03: 17:56

It's like I like going on trips that I don't know too many people and stuff. I like getting to meet new people. It's it's a wonderful way to meet people. I told you that. It's a wonderful way to meet people. So uh are y'all ready to move on to the next area? Do y'all want to say anything else from that?

SPEAKER_02: 18:09

Yeah, that's pretty much what happened the first day.

SPEAKER_03: 18:11

Okay. We'll start out with the phone.

SPEAKER_02: 18:15

Well, that was actually the last church. I mean, that was the last. At the end of the day. That was Further Pasqual.

SPEAKER_01: 18:20

So we was planning on doing three that day too, but one did get end up getting canceled. Right? Yeah. So we ended up only doing two kids' crusades, and then we just had a service on the other one. Yeah. So the first one was the school. Was the first one in school? That's not the same day. Y'all, I'm all mixed up. My daughter. You are edit this out.

SPEAKER_02: 18:42

We ended the school that morning. Okay. That's what I just did. But we didn't do the preaching. That wasn't the preaching night after you lost your phone. Because we were in the dark looking for your phone. Yeah, no. Yeah. So that wasn't the preaching one. Oh, okay. No. So we went to the school. Now this was the day to uh okay, the way that the it's set up, uh it's um got houses around the school. Yeah. It's kind of like a compound type thing. And uh Brother Luis and Brother Danny are trying to plant a church there and start uh foods mission at that place. So we did we brought food to the school and bowls and stuff for the kids and toys, backpacks. And when we got through, the kids were very into it. Like poor Dre, he's always usually the villain. And he knew because it happened the year before. They attack him. Yeah like nobody's business. Like they for real attack him.

SPEAKER_01: 19:35

Yeah, we was like the first, so we went two years before, or no, the year before Mackenzie did a another trip, and they attacked him, and so we was like prepared for them to attack him this time. So we was like telling our interpreters, tell the kids don't move, stay where they're at. They didn't even make it nervous. They did not care. So I literally I was the one that was supposed to like go catch him, me and um You didn't have Ariana, and like I could not even see him. He was so covered in kids, I had to dig through the bodies to get him out of there. Yes. But yeah, they super they were super excited, they love it.

SPEAKER_02: 20:10

So at the school, uh brother Louise came up and he got me and Sister Angel and the one of the sisters from FGT. Uh-huh. And we went up to the house. Um, there a daughter had asked if we could come pray for her mother.

SPEAKER_05: 20:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 20:24

And we got up there, and I can't, she I thought it was a little child. It was she was so little and she was in the bed, and she had been in the bed for over a month. And she, Brother Louise said, Come lay hands on her, and we were praying for her, and he kept saying, Pray for her to have peace. He's like, She's troubled in her mind, pray for healing, but she needs peace in her mind. So I began to pray, Lord, give her peace, give her strength, give her, you know, the bulk faith, like what you preach tonight. That's what I was praying to her. Give her the faith and the peace to and let her be healed. And Brother Luise, we helped her up, and she walked around the room, and then he asked her to sit in sit in the chair, and she wouldn't even sit down. She's like, No, I'll in Spanish, she tells him that she wants to just sing a worship song, and she's can't be four foot tall. Like, I don't even think she was that, and she just starts raising her hands and singing in Spanish, and it was just amazing. And then two weeks even after we came back, they sent Brother Louise went to go check on her, and she's still up. So it wasn't a day thing. Like God touched this woman and healed her. But also at the school, um, there was a group that went and prayed for a young girl that was in a motorcycle wreck. Now, I uh Sister Maria Pulver went in there and there were some more people. Do y'all know who else went over there with them? Because I was in the house with the older lady, but they went and prayed for a young girl who was her legs were just had road burn and motorcycle burn, you know, uh hitting the muffler or whatever. And so they went and prayed for her to be healed and to for salvation, I believe. For her, I'm not sure she was saved or not, but the older lady we went to, she was, she just needed to be touched by God. Right. And we brought them food and some bowls, and we ministered to them as well. So not only did we minister to the kids, we got to minister to two of the homes that were around there. And so then we leave there, go restock, and head to Brother Pasquale's church.

SPEAKER_03: 22:21

And then we get to talk about the fun. So go ahead, Haley. What happened?

SPEAKER_01: 22:27

Oh gosh. No, so that was after the service. So I'm like thinking in my brain, I'm gonna get Kent all these good pictures of my dreams.

SPEAKER_03: 22:34

Yes, I did the YouTube and I made I told several people to be getting me pictures of the stuff.

SPEAKER_01: 22:39

And literally at that service, Brother Danny Sweeney, he saw his daughter and future son-in-law praying. He's like, get a picture of them. So I'm like taking pictures, and uh Brother Luis and Esau like was praying together.

SPEAKER_02: 22:52

Esauck had a friend die in a motorcycle wreck that morning, and he was struggling at that church. Like it hit him, the grief, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 22:59

And then he was consoling them. So I was able to get like pictures of that. So I like had all these amazing pictures.

SPEAKER_05: 23:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 23:05

And we're going up the mountain, yeah. And um, I'm taking pictures and my phone dies. So I'm like, dog, I should have charged you. And so I just put it in my pocket and I'm in the back of the truck with um other girls. It was like me, Abby, was you back there? No, I was in the truck. Maybe uh oh yeah, you were in the truck, yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 23:24

I was with my mom.

SPEAKER_01: 23:25

It was dark and scary.

SPEAKER_00: 23:27

Yeah, it was getting.

SPEAKER_01: 23:28

It was a few girls back there. Um and so I'm sitting on the edge, just you know, enjoying the view and the breeze. And no, we're going to. Yeah. And then uh we we get a flat tire. And so we're sitting there, and there they have to change the flat tire, and um, you know, we're just waiting around. We start back up, and um, I feel my pocket, and my phone is not in there, and I'm like, oh gosh. So I tap the top of the hood of the truck, and Brother Danny stops, and I'm like, my phone's gone. And he's like, Are you serious? And I'm like, Yes, sir. And so uh I would not say everybody got out to look for this thing, and we walked and walked and flashlights everywhere.

SPEAKER_03: 24:10

How many miles would y'all say y'all walked?

SPEAKER_01: 24:12

Um, most people, most everybody walked at least a mile, I would say. Oh, way more than that. Well, like the first group. Yeah. So it was getting late, and I'm like, you know what? It's just a phone. Like, I'm sad about the pictures, not really nothing else I was caring about. And so I was like, I don't want all y'all waiting out here, like we have been through a whole day of doing stuff. So I'm like, we let's just go back to the glow center, like it's fine. Like, somebody gonna be blessed with the new phone in under. And so it was this one guy from FGT, his name is Brother Tino. And Esau and Dre, they was determined to go look for my phone all the way back to the church. And I'm like, no, these people need to get and go get some rest, get some food. And so um, brother Tino was like, okay, everybody else go back, and we're gonna stay and look for this phone. Like, take all the other trucks, take everybody. And then so Brother Tino, his wife, and his son stayed, and me, mama, Esau, and Dre. I think that was everybody. Yeah, we stayed back and we looked for two hours, two more hours. We went all the way back to the church, and I was like, we got lost actually, because we didn't know what we were doing. Uh so um, but yeah, we never found it. So I was like, I'm sorry, can't hold on the video. And then we get back to the glow center, and brother Danny was like, that one picture I asked you to take, Haley is lost. I'm like, oh no. So yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 25:32

Didn't you end up looking at looking on uh Life 360?

SPEAKER_01: 25:36

We tried to start searching it, but I didn't have service. I didn't pay for service, so the Life 360 actually wasn't even accurate, and we were trying to follow it, and it was just leading us down a dead end street.

SPEAKER_03: 25:45

So the moral of the story is charge your phone. I just joke.

SPEAKER_01: 25:49

Yes, actually, don't put it in your pocket at the beginning.

SPEAKER_03: 25:51

Well, I put mine in my pocket and I didn't look at it.

SPEAKER_01: 25:53

I've literally done it every trip I've ever been on. I did like, and I was just like sugared that that happened.

SPEAKER_02: 25:57

But I let me say this much. Uh I'm gonna brag on Haley here just a minute. Not just because I'm her mama, but for real, it was she had kept the victory better than her brother.

SPEAKER_05: 26:09

Like he was the phone.

SPEAKER_02: 26:12

He was like, he was so determined to find her phone. So Dre was more upset than Haley was about her losing her phone.

SPEAKER_05: 26:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 26:20

And you know, but everybody kept everybody kept the victory. Don't get me wrong, but I mean Haley, she, you know, she works hard for her money and she, you know, paid for this phone, and it was an investment for Haley. It wasn't like it wasn't a gift, it wasn't some kind of she didn't get it for free or for no promotion. Haley actually bought the phone. So we me and Dre know what it's like for, you know, when you when you put when you work hard and you get something and then you lose it. But she did great. Yeah. Because I was just like, Oh my goodness, she's lost the phone. And and after the fact, after it was over, we find out that one of the towns that we were driving back through is very high in gangs. Yeah. And like we didn't even realize the danger we were in.

SPEAKER_01: 27:10

It's like one of the most dangerous towns, especially at night.

SPEAKER_02: 27:13

At night. And we were we're we're windows down with flashlights shining out the window like some country hicks going down the road looking for deer or something. I don't know. And they're like, but God protected us, He He kept, He kept us safe in our ignorance. And so, but he did. And I know it was prayers from people that pray for us when we're on these trips for safety, and that and that was one of them. That was a moment I feel like God answered prayers and kept us safe. Even though Haley's phone was lost, it it was, you know, like she said, it was just a phone. Nobody's life was taken. Like I still got my passport.

SPEAKER_03: 27:49

She made it home alive and well.

SPEAKER_01: 27:52

Yes, and that the service was so good, too. So it really was. It really was. That was dampened nobody's spirits.

SPEAKER_03: 27:58

So let's let's talk about that service. So whoever wants to talk about that, Shiny, go ahead.

SPEAKER_02: 28:04

Um tell about the songs the little kids did.

SPEAKER_00: 28:07

Oh, yeah, the little kids. Well, to start off, like the little kids would they literally sang us songs and was like doing little motions to the songs for us. And we were trying our best to understand and like go along with it. I'm just sitting there trying to like watch them and in awe. I'm just like, I'm not even gonna attempt to do what they're doing because they're professionals. I'm not. Yeah, that was one of the biggest groups too.

SPEAKER_01: 28:28

It was like a hundred kids, ain't it? Oh yeah, it was a big place.

SPEAKER_00: 28:32

It was really big. But they were they were awesome, and they were like so into it too. I could see like some of the boys, they were like jumping up, they were hyped. Yeah, and then they were all doing our people was hyped.

SPEAKER_02: 28:43

I had a video. I got Dre and Abby are like spinning around, and even I think Aesok started jumping up, but like it was just yeah, you couldn't help but enter in.

SPEAKER_05: 28:52

Just fun.

SPEAKER_00: 28:53

Yeah, it was so amazing to watch them do that for us. Yeah, we were there for them, but they were also there for us, and that was just something amazing. Yeah, yeah, yes, it was.

SPEAKER_03: 29:03

So, uh, y'all ready to go the next day? Anything else interesting happened that day before we do? Okay, let's move on. Nobody died looking for handles.

SPEAKER_02: 29:14

Oh, wait, let me let me mention this. Let me put this in. Sister Gina cooked that night. That's the night she made that rice and chicken meal. Remember? And it was authentic. She is from there, she's the one that helps the school schooling.

SPEAKER_03: 29:28

Yes, I got to meet her.

SPEAKER_02: 29:29

And she and she's awesome.

SPEAKER_03: 29:31

She's so nice. I love her so much. She's really nice.

SPEAKER_02: 29:33

And so she um made an authentic meal for us that night. And so when we got back to the glow center, we had like this amazing meal. Yeah. Like, it was so good.

SPEAKER_00: 29:41

That was actually the next night. That night we had tacos.

SPEAKER_02: 29:44

Wait, well, we were late coming.

SPEAKER_00: 29:45

Remember, we that was tacos.

SPEAKER_02: 29:47

Yeah, why were we saved as plates? I thought that's how we were looking for the phone. Okay, got my nice mixed up. I just remember we came back to we came back to the glow center after they had been. Stayed there and cooked and we were gone. So I'm a nice one.

SPEAKER_03: 30:03

Either way, we got it. Okay. So y'all ready for the next day?

SPEAKER_02: 30:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_03: 30:06

All right. How many days are there left?

SPEAKER_02: 30:08

Two.

SPEAKER_03: 30:08

Two? Okay. Let's go to the next day. Haley.

SPEAKER_02: 30:12

Start with mama. Okay. Wait. Was that the day Arianna had to stay back? Because she was sick and Maria stayed back? Yes. Okay. Alright, so we this day um we had a young lady on our group, and she was so sick she couldn't handle the the rides. I mean, driving, there we're in, you know, tell them.

SPEAKER_03: 30:31

I get sick every time I go.

SPEAKER_02: 30:32

Four by fours in first low gear. Yeah. And that's how we're getting up these mountains. She was pretty bad. She she couldn't handle it.

SPEAKER_03: 30:39

So the drive messes with me every time I go. It's my least favorite part. That drive up that mountain is my least favorite part.

SPEAKER_02: 30:46

Yeah, it's it's rough. It's especially if you get motion sickness. Like and it was a place, so it was a school.

SPEAKER_01: 30:54

Yes. And we knew it from the year before as well. We went to there, and the kids are like so hungry for like affection and love and hugs. Yik. Oh so McKenzie really was sad she got to miss that. We were sad for her because she knew how it was gonna be. But she stayed back for Ari since that was her friend.

SPEAKER_02: 31:13

She stayed back because, yeah, of of her connection with Ari. And then Maria Pulver, she stayed back because she could speak Spanish. So if somebody came to the Glow Center, she could communicate enough to like everything would be okay. Yeah. And and she's uh, you know, she's older and to watch over with McKenzie and Ari are they're both what 20-ish? Right. Okay. So and so we go up to this school and we're we've we're hearing this. I wasn't there, and so they're telling us, Haley, and they was like, Mama, be prepared. Or it was her and Dre were both like Mom, because I you know, I really didn't. Did you like know like when they were telling us, like, be prepared, be prepared. No, like I was told by several people, like, this is gonna be very emotional.

SPEAKER_05: 31:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 31:58

So I was like, and I'm I I can get emotional. So, and I think she's with me on this one. Cheyenne can be emotional too. So we get up there and we're setting up not denying it. And the way the school is, it is literally on the side of the mountain. It's like down you're gonna go if you take too many steps one way. It was it's it was crazy how it's set up. So we go in, of course, they're hyped up waiting for us, and we do the program, and at the end, uh Brother Louise asked the children, how many of y'all's parents or fathers are alcoholics? And they say over 80% of the kids raise their hands. And just, you know, so they're we're dealing with fatherless or and and you know, uh I don't want to say I'm hoping this is not stereotyping, but most alcoholic fathers can be abusive or absent. Those are the two things that you mainly get when the alcohol is involved. So we know these kids already are struggling in their homes, and so here we are trying to, you know, lift their spirits. Well, afterward, when he's does the altar the altar call and everything, he's says um to the kid to the men that were in our group and the young men, he's like, These kids need a hug from a male.

SPEAKER_05: 33:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 33:17

And so he asked the men to like hug these children. Well, all of us women are already holding crying, they will not let you go. Yeah, they literally cling to you and will not let you go. And um, so finally it got time to we needed to get moving, and we, you know, had to pass out what we brought, and so we were lining them up, getting them everything, and they they didn't want to let go. The little girl I was holding, she did not care. She would rather sit there and me hold her than to go get a toy. I had to talk her in, and of course, there's the let the language barrier, and I'm like, you know, trying to convince her, go get your toy, go get your toy. And she finally gets down, and I lose it, I start crying, and and because I turn around, and who is standing there but Dre? And I'm like, and he's already been crying, and he hugs me, and so I'm just he's like, It's okay, mama, it's okay. But it's like it's hard, it's not okay because you have to leave them. Yeah, you have to leave these babies that I mean these little kids, they are babies to me, but yeah, it's you have to leave them, and it's so hard. But but you get to see the joy on their face for that moment, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 34:20

Tell me about your experience with that shit.

SPEAKER_00: 34:22

Well, when we was doing the program, it was already like so cramped because there were so many kids there. We were trying to fight uh room and trying to we were tripping over each other, trying to do the program. But like like she said, after it, uh brother Luis asked that question, and I f fully couldn't hear because I was trying to pack up certain things, and I w then went out and uh started, you know, praying over the kids. And then whenever like the kids just started hugging me, I finally realized that this they don't have that love that we we experience here. Yeah, they don't get that affection, they don't get hugs, they don't get the love that they requ need to, you know, go about their day. And so whenever I th I don't remember what who how many I was hugging, but I just started to cry because not only was I giving them love, they were showing me and giving me love back. Yeah that's something I love and it kind of rekindles something back in me to you know go back to these kids to do for these kids. But that's even the kids we have here. You hear some bits and pieces of what they go through in their home life, and you are like shocked at the fact that that is what they go through every day. And so you try to, you know, teach them but also give them love and affection that they that they need.

SPEAKER_03: 35:44

Yeah, it can be easy here at the church to have kids that they don't know this. We've been raised in this, we know this, but they don't know it, so they're not used to it. They misbehave, they're hyper. It can be hard to have patience with them, but they all they've got hard home lives. It's good that they got can come here, they got people who can teach them and stuff. Haley, I want to hear your uh part with that too, if you wanna, if you don't mind.

SPEAKER_01: 36:11

Yeah, so that was my second time going. So the first time I went, I was shooking. Because I'm like, I was literally bawling because I'm like, these kids, like, all they want is just a good hug. Yeah. And so, you know, in America, if somebody just come up and hug you, you just like creep. So I'm like, this is crazy. And like they appall on, like, you can have four or five, six, and like you give them, you just look at them, and it's like you open the door and they just want to run up and hug you. Like, like you don't even have to make the first move. Like, they will if they just see a chance that they can come hug you, and so it's very touching to be able to experience that. And of like they said, you don't want to leave, you just want to sit there all day and like love on them. I'm like, it's very hard too, since we don't know Spanish, and so like all we can do is hug them. I wish we could like speak to them a little. That's why I'm like, I need to learn Spanish. Um, but yeah, I mean, for people who won't hear that don't know me, I'm mixed, so they see me, they think I can speak Spanish.

unknown: 37:12

I can't.

SPEAKER_01: 37:13

Because I'm like, I'm taking all of just the same color as them. Oh, that happened there at that church. So like after we was um all praying for them, um, these it was like four teenage girls. Yes, um, was there and they was just like staring at me and my mom, and so my mom's white. So Isak, um, our interpreter guy, he uh he told my mom was like, How do you say she's my daughter in Spanish? And so he's like told them that she was my mom, and they was like, No way, we do not believe you at all. I'm like, I got brown eyes, brown curly hair, super curly hair. And we brought over there too. My mom, you she's like green eyes, bluish, greenish, bluish eyes, and you know, white hair, stick straight here. And so they're like, no way, you're lying. He's like, nope, that's her mom, but it was funny, and they want to take pictures with us, so it wasn't. Yeah, my brother, yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 38:05

They they believed you and Drake's brother's situation. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 38:09

But like, yeah, they they always try to like talk to us in Spanish, and we're like, We're we're with the amigos over here, the Americanos. Uh and so, yeah, but it's it's an awesome place to visit. Like, I love going to that school because it's just an amazing experience. Because you just like feel connected to the kids, even though you can't speak to them, yeah, but like you can get across that we care, and like they just eat it up and they into the program too, just like not just that part of their like love everything about it, so it's worth it to go up that crazy mountain.

unknown: 38:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 38:41

And and I'm glad you brought up those teenage girls because they wanted um a pure love. And um, that's one of the things when I prayed for the children, especially girls. I did pray for some for the boys this way too, but just that God would keep them safe.

SPEAKER_05: 38:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 39:00

Because it's very bad. Sex trafficking over there is very, very bad. And it's um one of those and like just in Honduras alone, like a a whole movie has been made, uh Sound of Freedom is is based in partially in Honduras. And so, you know, I just knowing that and seeing how beautiful these little girls are growing up and and and they're girls just like American girls, they you know, there's they want to look cute and be pretty and but you just don't want to you want to have that purity. And so that, you know, whenever you talk about y'all's trip, you'll get to do that. But just that was one of my prayers for those teenage girls. And I still, when every time they're brought, God brings them to my remembrance, I pray God keep those girls safe.

SPEAKER_03: 39:48

Yeah, we got the opportunity on our last trip to go talk to or Abby Sweeney, who went on y'all's trip, and my uncle, Uncle Joey, her dad. Uh, they was talking on purity, Abby with the girls with uh Bro Louise's daughter, which I don't think she was there on Yell's trip, right?

SPEAKER_04: 40:03

Yeah, yeah, Tiersa.

SPEAKER_03: 40:04

Y'all didn't get to y'all didn't get to have her around. I did. I met her actually in the States. Oh really? Yeah. She's she was messing on the bad. Y'all hear about that in another podcast.

SPEAKER_01: 40:14

And that place actually cooks for us every time we go to, so they they made us a whole meal.

SPEAKER_03: 40:18

Ours had well when we went to that one, they made us ramen. Oh really? No joke, made us ramen. And I don't I don't eat ramen much, but I did that day. But yeah, they uh so we got to talk about that. Was one of the main focuses on our trip was talking about purity. We had other stuff we did too. Uh well, main focus was talking to the youth, but one of the things we did a good bit was talking about purity. But yeah, so getting back on y'all's what other memorable stuff happened that day.

SPEAKER_01: 40:45

So we we went back to the Willow Center after that, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 40:47

I gotta say, the way that that your mom automatically is looking at you, the one person that I had the hardest time getting in here, you're you you get you're starting to talk more and more on this. I don't know if YouTube noticed that. I've noticed that. She just you automatically look at her.

SPEAKER_01: 41:06

I'm nervous. I forgot everything.

SPEAKER_03: 41:08

I just made you nervous, didn't I? You're doing a good job. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_01: 41:12

Go ahead, Johnny.

SPEAKER_03: 41:14

Go ahead, Haley. You was doing it.

SPEAKER_01: 41:16

No, I was just trying to remember, like, we have to.

SPEAKER_02: 41:19

That was the night we went to the church service. So the church says up on the hill. And that was the service.

SPEAKER_03: 41:24

New Jerusalem. Yes. Right. Yes. Yes. I want to hear about that.

SPEAKER_02: 41:27

And so we didn't do a kids' program. Why I forgot why we didn't. Y'all remember? Well, Abby didn't go, right? No, there was a few people that did, because we swapped out. Maria got to go to the church and Abby and stayed back. And they stayed back and cooked. That's right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 41:44

It's like a few people stayed back.

SPEAKER_00: 41:46

Yeah, yeah. There was quite a few that stayed back.

SPEAKER_01: 41:47

And then Isak and Dre didn't come because they went to town.

SPEAKER_02: 41:52

Brother Joel Steed's truck group had a flat tire. So we had two flat tires on this trip. Yeah, the devil was trying to fight us on this trip. And let me just say that those trucks was rented from the Tegusagape, or however you say that, uh airport.

SPEAKER_03: 42:05

So they weren't rented from not San Pedro Sula.

SPEAKER_02: 42:08

Yeah. So I don't know if that makes a difference or whatever, but those were the two trucks that we had less people, but it was an amazing service.

SPEAKER_01: 42:17

Oh yes. Brother Chino preached, right? Or interpreted. Or Brother David Broadway.

SPEAKER_02: 42:22

Brother David Broadway. I even knew that many of the things.

SPEAKER_04: 42:24

Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_02: 42:24

It was, oh Kent. It was so good. It was so every time I've ever been, we're the ones doing the thing. So I've never got to sit in one at a service at a church, should I say. And uh it was like they were all they were doing the worship, the New Jerusalem. And so my friend Maria, the one that told you, she was a missionary in Peru. So she kind of knew like this is their culture, does it this way, and and you know, and it was she was loving it. Like she was just like all her memories of the years she was in the mission field and stuff. And uh it just brother David Brother Chino was on fire. I mean, he was just like, you know, Brother David's like, he's just but Brother Chino was just like all of them, it was great. I loved it, and so um we they in the altar service, they had a great altar service.

SPEAKER_01: 43:15

Oh yeah, the altar service was um a lot of people got help. Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_02: 43:20

Um did um you want to talk about did you pray?

SPEAKER_01: 43:25

Was it two girls or whatever you were praying for?

SPEAKER_00: 43:27

Oh yeah, there was there was like a ton of girls I was surrounded around me. My mom decided to sit up front and stuff, and we were surrounded by girls just behind us and all around us. But like there was two girls that like really stuck out to me, and I didn't know what it was, but I felt like praying over them for peace. Well, we've been teaching these kids all week, but we didn't get to do it here. Yeah, but for some reason I felt to pray for them for peace and then their home life. I couldn't understand why, and I still don't. But the just to pray over their home, their their mom, their dad, just whatever situation that they may be going through, I prayed for peace over their minds and then their families' minds. And it it was whenever I started praying for them, I could just kind of sense that they were they didn't understand me, but they could feel it.

SPEAKER_05: 44:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 44:21

And I was praying for all around people all around, and I could see everybody else was too. And that's just my continued prayer for 'em. They're for peace over their minds and their family, whatever situation that may be going on, just perfect peace around over them.

SPEAKER_03: 44:37

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_01: 44:38

They was they were a really involved church. Yeah. Like you can tell that they that's they know what the spirit of God is. Yeah. Like it was awesome. Yeah. So it was funny because I sat by these two girls and they was acting like I was one of them. Like I was famous or something. They was like all talking Spanish, excited, and so Miss Maria was actually sitting by me and interpreting for me, because I'm like, sorry, y'all. And so they was like asking how old we were and all this stuff. And uh That's another thing.

SPEAKER_02: 45:04

They don't ever believe the age of Haley. Yeah. So because Haley just turned 28, but she was 27 on the trip, but she looks, you know, 20.

SPEAKER_01: 45:14

Yeah, they were two, they were both 19. I think they were cousins actually. And they were trying to sneak and take selfies with me, and I was like, I'll take a picture with y'all. We all was like taking selfies together. It was funny.

SPEAKER_02: 45:26

But the alt in the altar call, um, the pastor's wife, she even like um some women were praying for her. Like, she we you know, pastors' wives have a lot on their shoulders too, trying to help their husbands with these churches, and sometimes they can get lost in the shuffle. But she, you could tell she got help. And I was praying with a young mother. Um, she just slowly just broke down. And by the time we got up off the floor, I was we both were on the floor crying, which both of us were crying, but she just there was a puddle of snot and tears, and just but she got up relieved. Like you could just tell, like, yeah, okay, I can I can keep going, kind of look to her. She she got she touched the Lord, and and even though I couldn't speak Spanish and she couldn't speak English, when we hugged each other, the common language of love that God has between us spoke louder than any word could ever speak. And that that was what touched me that night was that young lady. We still passed out uh we still did toys and school stuff like that. We even gave out hats to the men and the women and glasses and stuff like that. So we still was able to bless that church, even though we didn't do the kids' program. Yeah, right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 46:40

So is there any more memorable things that happened y'all want to talk about that we haven't talked about?

SPEAKER_02: 46:47

We got to see the school that's being built. Yeah. Um, that was not the greenhouse was built, and the school was built since I've been there.

SPEAKER_03: 46:55

So had they planted by the time y'all was there?

SPEAKER_02: 46:57

Yes. They were were planting when we got there. Yes.

SPEAKER_03: 47:00

I got to see it grown.

SPEAKER_02: 47:02

Really? We just saw the heels.

SPEAKER_03: 47:04

So I'll show y'all pictures when we got there. But it's I'm gonna talk about this in arms. But I it's cool that y'all got to see. Did y'all get any pictures of them planting? I want those pictures. Okay. Because I want to do something. It is so cool. So, what they're talking about is we built a greenhouse on the Glycer. It was finished when y'all went.

SPEAKER_02: 47:20

Yes, and they were planting.

SPEAKER_03: 47:22

Yes, and we were planting stuff in there, stuff outside, to make our own food, and it's really cool getting to see this because this is something we've not done like this. This is on wide scale. There's so much food out there right now. I'll show y'all pictures. It's full. That's they use so much of the property to do it. It's awesome. It's being we're finally using all of the property from putting a school on there to having the glow center to all the food being planted. It's really cool. And we'll have pictures and we'll have stuff coming up on the Facebook page and YouTube about all that later on, but it's really cool.

SPEAKER_01: 47:54

We got to see that church too.

SPEAKER_03: 47:56

Greenwells?

SPEAKER_01: 47:56

When I went yes, when I went the year before, they was actually making the brick.

SPEAKER_03: 48:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 48:00

Wait, which in the wall. Well, we passed it when we went to that first school with the kids that attacked Drake. Did y'all stop there or just pass it? We just passed it. Okay. Yeah, but we could see it like Well, nobody in my truck would have known. Oh, okay. Yeah, no, me, Dre, and Abby was like, whoa, what you got? Dre was in the back of the back of the truck. Or McKenzie. I don't know who was with me. I know me and Abby saw it. Oh, okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 48:19

So I didn't have the knowledge in my truck of that.

SPEAKER_01: 48:23

It was like roof and walls and everything.

SPEAKER_03: 48:26

Like, last time I well, when I I went to Greenwell's and all they had was the they had like the foundation for the walls to put the adobe's on. So I didn't I I've had seen pictures and stuff, but that church is coming along. What'd you did you get did you they let you know that that's what that was?

SPEAKER_00: 48:42

Yeah, they let you live back there, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 48:44

What'd you think?

SPEAKER_00: 48:45

I thought it was really amazing. I didn't get to see like the before, yeah, but the after was amazing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 48:50

It's cool getting to see something grow like that.

SPEAKER_00: 48:52

Is it gonna have a toilet?

unknown: 48:56

Oh god. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03: 48:59

The description for this podcast. It's gonna be interesting.

SPEAKER_02: 49:04

I just had it though a little stubborn there.

SPEAKER_03: 49:07

Might as well. Might as well.

SPEAKER_02: 49:08

But the school, though, that they were building. Yes. Was that the first time you got to see like the I've seen it two times.

SPEAKER_03: 49:15

Two different churches.

SPEAKER_02: 49:16

Okay, all right. That was my first.

SPEAKER_03: 49:17

On my last one, and this one.

SPEAKER_02: 49:19

It is amazing. It is really amazing. They did a great job.

SPEAKER_03: 49:21

What it is, brother Joe Sneed and their church and their group, uh, Four Corners, School of Outreach. They're building a school on our property. And it is really nice. It's it's it's decent size. Oh, yeah. Really nice. They have a small one in a shed, more thing, behind the glow center. Uh as a matter of fact, when I was there, the one lady, she was there and they was uh enrolling kids. Oh, really? It was enrolling kids when I was there. So that was cool to watch. Yeah. But it's it's gonna grow and it's really gonna be really cool to see it. Really cool to be able to because it's gonna be cool to be able to go to the glow center and you just see these kids just going to school and stuff. It's gonna be really good.

SPEAKER_01: 49:55

Oh, that was another thing that happened. FGT and because they're more over the school part than HLF. That's that's more of their part. Yeah, so they was able to have a whole meeting on the second day, I think we got there with the teacher and the principal and like all the people. Yeah, so they had a meeting with that.

SPEAKER_02: 50:09

I think Sister Gina, I I I could be wrong on this, but I think she's like with she's in an she's worked for that.

SPEAKER_03: 50:16

She's the administrator, she's actually the administrator of the school in Honduras and their school at their church in Jonesboro.

SPEAKER_02: 50:22

Yes, and she is gonna uh be moving out there, but she's been doing it for 35 years, and so and she it was a blessing because everything God moved for them and everything is in place.

SPEAKER_03: 50:37

Her story's really awesome. Yeah, yeah. She's such a nice lady.

SPEAKER_02: 50:40

What's the name of the church that's like diagonal from the glow center? What's the name of that one? Yeah, we went there and we walked over to that one.

SPEAKER_03: 50:46

Y'all went over there?

SPEAKER_02: 50:46

That was the same one. We took one truck full of toys and stuff, but we the rest of us walked. Yeah. Did you know the name of that one? Right across the road.

SPEAKER_03: 50:52

Right there. I know what it is. I don't know what the name of it is. It's got the past, the really short one with the really long arms.

SPEAKER_02: 50:57

Yeah. That's how I was. I like it. It was we just, but it was they did so good. Yeah. They did the kids really got into it. I mean, it was just, you know, just a few kids got to come to that one. But yeah. It just showed me God just revealed once again, whether it be few or whether it be many. It's you we we did our we did the same no matter if it was five or fifty. And the five loved it just as much as the fifty. So God, I'm just saying, he just he revealed so much to me on that trip, just reminding me. Right. Actually, only our church did that one, right? Yes.

SPEAKER_01: 51:38

FGT had to do something else. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 51:40

They said longer than y'all, though. Y'all left. Yeah, they say.

SPEAKER_01: 51:43

Oh, yeah, that was another thing that happened. Brother Danny got mixed up on the dates. Yeah. So him and Brother Luis planned our whole trip from Monday. Was it Monday or Sunday? Sunday. Sunday through Thursday. And he thought we were gonna be leaving Friday or something like that. Y'all was leaving Thursday. And so the night my phone, I lost my phone. He was like, okay, you got two days to look for it, or three days or something, he said. And I was like, uh, no, we don't. We gotta leave Thursday. He was like, What? So yeah, he was not prepared for that. So he had to reply his whole day. Yeah. So we actually was able on the last day we was in the mountain. Yeah. We would we went to one place with everybody, and then FDT had to go to the second place without us because that's when we headed out down the mountain. So yeah, the scheduling was all kind of mixed up. Things don't always go. Brother Danny was stressing, but he got it figured out.

SPEAKER_03: 52:33

He told me about the thing, you know, things don't always go planned as planned. But it works, it always works out with missions. Yeah. I mean we was planned to do something that on our trip that we didn't end up doing, but we didn't need to be there. What was supposed to happen happened, and it was powerful.

SPEAKER_05: 52:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 52:49

So is there anything else before we start doing our clothes and stuff? Is there anything else that y'all want to talk about?

SPEAKER_01: 52:55

If you haven't been on a mission strip and you get the chance, go.

SPEAKER_02: 52:58

Yes. And and I heard the airport was better for y'all on y'all's trip because it was under total control.

SPEAKER_03: 53:05

So they're putting the subway in.

SPEAKER_02: 53:07

That's what we tried. They already had three shops up from the time when we went. He was like, Here's how wild it was.

SPEAKER_03: 53:14

When we were there, all the restaurants hadn't been opened yet. Right? Like right in that little food court area.

SPEAKER_04: 53:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 53:20

But there was like that Belly Autos place that is called. It wasn't open.

unknown: 53:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 53:24

We left and came back and it was open. People was getting food and everything.

SPEAKER_01: 53:29

Wow. It's so funny. Yeah, Dre said they were speed working. That's amazing.

SPEAKER_03: 53:33

And then by the time we get up there, hopefully there'll be a subway. And I'm I that that'll be good for people who don't want to eat anything with fruit. I personally, that belly otis place to me, I like. Well, no, that place that has the wings is good too.

SPEAKER_02: 53:47

Okay, the the those at the airport might be good. Those are good. But see, we were on the side.

SPEAKER_03: 53:51

Well, I'm not saying it was Belly Otis, but that's what it's called. Something like that.

SPEAKER_02: 53:54

No, I'm just saying, but we didn't eat those at the airport. Y'all got them from the side.

SPEAKER_03: 53:58

Y'all shouldn't have listened to Aesok.

SPEAKER_02: 54:00

I didn't, so I didn't get sick. That was but like I said, we were trying to bless them. Yeah, yeah. But I I'll give one pointer that we didn't mention about when we went. If you ever fly internationally from Houston, you need to reserve your parking before you go. Because it's not the same as before. It's just I really don't know if it had anything to do with because we've had a later flight or what the case was. Yeah, y'all had y'all day. Y'all didn't have to get a parking lot. He came through for us that day. He really did. Yeah. He really came through. But um, yeah, so but when y'all flying out of New Orleans, Dre was like he liked it better. Even though y'all had to do a layover, yeah, and he was like, it it's so much easier.

SPEAKER_03: 54:43

It was. I love the New Orleans airport. It's cleaner. It's just it's a nice airport. How me and my dad went our last or not this trip, but the last one. We seriously we went to parking, went downstairs, and the airport's right there. You just walk right in. Right. It's so much smoother. Drake says it's so much easier. I love it. It's my favorite way to go. We got cheaper tickets there this time and last time. That's why we took it. It's just a bonus to be able to go through New Orleans. Now I will say the Miami, it's a it's the airport's not bad. The food selection is wild, but uh it was not the funnest experience on the way home. Okay. Let's just say that. But it was we had a good trip. But yeah, y'all's trip, I heard about it, and I know everything I've heard is was a phenomenal trip. Yeah, it was great. Are y'all ready to start doing our clothes and stuff?

unknown: 55:36

I think that was great.

SPEAKER_03: 55:37

Okay. So the first thing we're gonna do is I'm gonna have Sister Debbie. We'll start with you. Okay. What impacted you the most on this trip and what did you learn on this trip?

SPEAKER_02: 55:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_03: 55:50

Well Haley, you can be thinking about it. What you willing to say.

SPEAKER_02: 55:54

I um I I just know that God, He showed me on I'm I'm gonna come out of the verse on John 13, 35. It says, By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples if ye have love one to another. And he just reminded me of you don't have to speak words to show love. Actions speak louder than words. And it was reminded to me that um just there's a hunger out there. And he says, go into all the world. And I know that we have a mission field here in America, but because our church is uh we have a missions there, uh, and I see my children's hunger for it, I have a hunger for it. He just it's just he just reminded me once again that um actions you need to do. If you can do, there's so many people that whether it be health reasons, age, or just business life, they want to give to uh uh someone who wants to go, and this is a good mission to give to. And God's reminded me, like, go and let people know. If they don't know, they they can't help you if they don't know. So he just put a fire in me to if I'm out speaking to people, to to let them know about it, and just to continue to pray for these churches over there that are being planted and the work that y'all do every time y'all go, or or or I get to go, or whoever gets to go, we we're seeing results, we're seeing revival, we're seeing things done down there, it's growing. Yeah, and so he God just reminded it's just that was what he reminded me to just continue to show love to these people and plant seeds.

SPEAKER_03: 57:38

I know Uncle Danny told me, or no, Uncle Danny told Uncle Joey, he said it at church, that that trip y'all went on was one of the more powerful, most powerful trips he's been on recently. And I know from our trip it was the same. It is growing right it spiritually powerful things are going on right now. Yes. So now Cheyenne, I'm gonna let you go next. Talk about what you learned and what ex what impacted you the most and how it felt going for the first time.

SPEAKER_00: 58:08

Well, going for the first time, it was truly amazing. I can really say that I saw God over there and I can I brought him back with me. I brought the experience back with me to our church and to um really get with the kids and teach them and just for my very first trip, I'm glad this was one I went on because um not only was it because I knew some people that went on there, you knew a good big I knew my friends were there, Haley, our favorite co-world and my mom, she got to come with me for my very first one. We love it.

SPEAKER_03: 58:48

No, I didn't get to come.

SPEAKER_00: 58:50

That was very sad. That was very sad. But um, but for my first one to be a kids ministry, yeah, that was something I truly loved it being for my very first one. And the fact that I got to interact with kids, even though, like Haley said, there was a language barrier there. I got some interpreters to actually talk to some of the kids. And when we was like passing out the toys, you would see their faces just light up for the smallest little toy that we could give. It could have been beaten, it could have been like tore up, but to them it was so precious. And that was even like passing out the hats and the the blankets that we were giving out to the older older people, they loved it. There was a man, I was passing out blankets to to the women, but there was a man who said, I want one of those. And I was like, um I don't know, but I can't tell him no because I can't speak it. So I was like, here you go. And when when he got it, I saw his face have the biggest smile I had ever seen. And he hugged it so tight, like it was the first thing he has ever gotten. And that was something I kind of learned. We take things for granted so much over here because we literally can see it on we have all the all the things. We have blankets, we have pillows, we we have toys, we have food. They struggle for that over there. So any little thing that they have, they hold on to so tightly and they preserve it. Like it was the f the very first time they had ever received it. So to be able to experience that and to come back and see things in a different light was just amazing.

SPEAKER_03: 1:00:43

Okay, Haley. So I know you didn't want to get deep, and I'm not gonna make you. You just say whatever you feel like saying.

SPEAKER_01: 1:00:50

Oh wow. Go deep, Haley.

SPEAKER_03: 1:00:54

Down, down, down.

SPEAKER_01: 1:00:55

No, yeah, I understand what Cheyenne was saying because I felt like that on my first trip, and it reminds you every time you go. Yeah. Like it's a constant reminder. So I was like, Cheyenne, be ready. So yeah, I was like, um, but no, every time I go, it um it's very hard for me sometimes to just go and witness to people to like take the first step. But it's like so easy in Honduras, it feels like, because the doors are open, they're waiting for you to do that, and you're just like ready to tell them about Jesus. And so every time I come back to America, I'm like, we not just supposed to be like that in Honduras, like we're supposed to be like that wherever we go. And just the Lord convicts me every time that I need to work on that. Like we're supposed to be a picture of men, not just uh in other countries, like go you to all yeah, and that matter that's the place you wake up in. Yeah. So I just get convicted every time that I need to do that. I work at a coffee shop. I'm like, I see tons of people. So I'm like, Lord, one-on-one with people every day. Yeah, so I'm like, in my brain, I feel I'm like, I feel like I don't have opportunities, just I feel like because I try to make myself think that, so I won't do it.

unknown: 1:02:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:02:08

And so I'm like, Lord, help me to be willing and have what's the word, boldness, courage to do it, like even where I'm at.

SPEAKER_03: 1:02:17

So yeah. See, that wasn't so hard. And you did good. You did good. So y'all got anything else y'all want to say before we close? I'll give y'all time to say whatever y'all want.

SPEAKER_02: 1:02:27

Um, I just want to I'll add one more thing. The um when when you're over there and you're praying and you're going out and you're witnessing, and I'm sure every all three of y'all can testify to this, but the simplicity over there, it it just is I don't know, I find it easier to just talk to the Lord. Yeah. Like I have it's just I I do pray here, of course. I pray every day, but it's it's something about sitting out there in those mountains and just it's just simple. And we complicate things so much over here.

SPEAKER_01: 1:03:02

You got so much going on while you're it's easier to wake up early and to get your Bible and pray. And just yeah, because you're not important. Exactly. So much easier it feels like. Exactly.

SPEAKER_02: 1:03:12

Because you're not trying to uh, you know, I mean, we have places to go and things to do. That's not what I'm trying to say, but it's just like, you know, the the phone's not going off every five minutes, or you know, you're it's just the hustle and bustle of it it's just so busy over here. That's the one thing I love about Honduras, is it's it reminds me that you know what Jesus tells us about all this is gonna fade away. Yeah. And it's it's what we do for him that's gonna that's that's what's gonna be when we get there. That's all that's gonna last. Yeah is the things that we do and for him. And I just encourage people to pray for missionaries, pray for this podcast, pray for God's little ones because um we need it. We need it. We we want to keep going. And uh it it takes prayers and and people know, and and Ken, I think you're doing a wonderful job getting this out there. Thank you for having us to tell our story.

SPEAKER_03: 1:04:10

It's been a blast.

SPEAKER_02: 1:04:11

Yeah, we get a little crazy sometimes, but that makes it that makes it entertaining.

SPEAKER_03: 1:04:16

For those who don't want to listen to stuff just serious, it makes it entertaining. Yeah, but yeah, my like you talking about it being so relaxed and stuff. My dad, it just helps him just go get a break. My dad's Haley works for my dad and he's all working every day. He don't take a break until he goes to Honduras and he's still working up there, but it's just it's different. It is, it's different up there.

SPEAKER_02: 1:04:38

It absolutely yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 1:04:40

Well, this has been a blast of a podcast. Do you two have anything else y'all want to say?

SPEAKER_00: 1:04:45

Just if you ever get the opportunity, go to Honduras, go on a mistress trip because it really is worth it.

SPEAKER_03: 1:04:50

I 100% agree, and I know you two agree as well. I can't wait to go on one with you, I I went on one with it. All three of y'all I have not done yet. I gotta do it.

SPEAKER_01: 1:05:00

You haven't went with Haley?

SPEAKER_03: 1:05:01

I haven't went with Hamlet. I've gone with Drew I've gone with Dre twice.

SPEAKER_01: 1:05:05

The Honduras like fanatics, and we have not even been on a trip to get there.

SPEAKER_03: 1:05:10

Well, I mean, imagine if you, me, and Dre all go. Who's gonna work the coffee shop?

SPEAKER_01: 1:05:15

Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_03: 1:05:17

I mean, I'm I'm y'all fixing that to deal with that we either way, but well, this has been a blast of a podcast. We definitely gotta get a trip for all of us to go on. It's so it's just it's a fun bonding opportunity you get. I know y'all experience that. We had a blast, me and Dre, we kept messing with each other. We had a blast on our trip, too. Well, thank y'all for being here today. It's been a phenomenal podcast. Thank y'all for giving me an hour and about six minutes today. God bless y'all, and the thanks for being here.

unknown: 1:05:49

Thank you for having us.

SPEAKER_03: 1:05:55

In this podcast, they they talked about seeing a drunk man on the side of the road and some of the guys going and helping him into his house. And I wanted to say something along the lines of that. God's not always gonna send you to someone who's who you want to witness to. He's not always gonna send you to somebody in a like a nice neighborhood or somebody with a nice house. He's gonna often send us to the lowly, to the drunk, to the addicted. I mean, look at Jesus' life. Look at what he did. He went to the tax collectors, he went to the publicans and sinners, he went to the Samaritan woman who had married five husbands. He went to the people nobody else wanted to be with, the rejects. And God will often do that, send us to the rejects. He'll often send us to those that nobody else wants to witness to. He wants to save them just as much as he wants to save the rich man, just as much as he wants to save the good person. He wants to save the bad, the ugly, the hurting, the addict. He wants to save them and he will send us to them. So when you're going out witnessing, when God tells you to witness to that type of person, don't run and hide, don't cower. God wants to use you in that way. He wants to use you to magnify his name, to give him glory, and to see another soul make it to heaven. Do y'all want to see souls saved? Do y'all want to see people make it to heaven? If you do, witness to every person. Don't look at what they look like, what they do, what their background is, what their history is, what they're known for. God can wipe away every mistake we've done. If we will, and he can do it, and he will do it. So I encourage you, it doesn't matter who it is, what they look like, a drug addict, a homeless person, whatever it is, I encourage you, witness to that person. If God's telling you, witness to that person and see how he uses you. Well, thank you for listening to this episode of the God's Little One podcast. I hope y'all enjoyed this episode. This was when I when I said this, we were doing something different, I explained it. But basically, just what I meant was we've never done so many people in one room, so that was very different. I only had three mics, and we had four people in the room, so I had a mic, and then the uh two people shared a mic, and then I believe one person had their own mic. So that's basically what we did. But it ended up I think it ended up working out and sounding really good. Maybe you have some tapping on the mic and stuff like that, but besides that, I think it went good. Uh, it was a good podcast. I love this because it was a recent trip of this year, so you get to hear what God is still doing. And I'm telling y'all, God is moving in 2025. In missions, we have been seeing some incredible things. I got to go on a trip a couple months ago, and it was just unreal what happened. When we got back from that trip, something we found out happened was unreal. Y'all will be hearing that on a future podcast. I don't know when because I have not recorded it yet, but here in a couple weeks I'm gonna be recording it. Me and uh Dre Hobson, who's been on here a few times, uh, that's gonna be awesome. I do want to say something else. So if you've if you've been listening, you noticed that we had not posted in a while. And I'm gonna tell you the truth, that's on me for just laziness of not taking the time to post. If you heard or I'm I'm in uh Bible school right now, so I'm I got a lot going on with that, but it's not an excuse. I I can take the time, I just haven't. So I apologize for that. We're getting back on it though. Uh I'm gonna be shooting up a Facebook post also kind of talking about this later on. But the podcast is back, okay? The podcast is gonna be. I don't want to see this die. I love this. I love the podcast. I love getting to do this, and I just I love getting these stories out. I really want to see this thing grow, so please share this with everybody you know that you think would like this or not. Maybe they'll enjoy it. But I love this idea of the podcast, it's a great way to get the stories to y'all. Y'all can watch the videos, but there's nothing like hearing the stories, so this is a way to do that. So thank y'all. If y'all do listen, thank y'all for listening. And please tell a friend, we really want to get this to grow. But in our next podcast, that is a great question. I'm not really sure what I have recorded on here, but if things work out, let me look at my calendar. Next week will be not next week, but the next will be the week before Christmas. So I think here's what we'll end up doing. We will have one more podcast of a normal average podcast. That will be not this coming week, but the next. That one is going to be really good. We're gonna be I recently recorded this when we're gonna be talking to Brother Phil Marino, and it was a really, really good uh podcast. Brother Phil Marino is one of the nicest men I've ever met. He loves missions, he does missions at the church he goes to. If you remember Brother Randy Snow, he's he goes to Brother Randy Snow's and he does their missions, and I'm just telling you, this man is he's awesome. This brother, I he's an awesome man. He's got some awesome stuff to tell. So please be listening for that podcast. It's a good one. That one will be coming out not this next Monday, but the next. So skip a week and then the next. I'm gonna give y'all a little inside though to the next podcast, which we're gonna be doing. If it works out, the next podcast will be the last podcast of 2025. That'll be one year of doing the podcast. To me, that's a big deal that we're still doing this. I have a tendency to start stuff and not finish it. So this is a big deal to me that we're getting a year under our belt. So we're gonna play it up big like it was a 50-year anniversary, basically. What we're gonna do is basically me, uh brother Danny, probably brother Joey, uh Dre, maybe, and uh brother Richard Sweeney. We are all going to get together. I'm gonna set up a big table, and we're all gonna get in that table and basically just have one big recap of the whole year of 2025. Name off every podcast episode and say something about that. Name off different projects that was started, different projects that was finished, different projects that are going on, uh, whatever trips we can remember, talk about those trips. It's gonna be really cool. And there's a chance I'm gonna be talking to Brother Danny, and I clear stuff by him before I do anything. He's the director and stuff, so I'm gonna try and see if we're good to do this. We might Facebook Live the last podcast of 2025. We might do it on Facebook. We we don't do video podcasts, but just because it's the last podcast of 2025 and it's the first year doing this, we might if Brother Danny's if Brother Danny's good with it and I can get it set up and the Wi-Fi doesn't give us problems, we might live stream it onto uh Facebook if I can figure out the best way to do that. So, no promises. I'm gonna be working on it, I'm gonna be looking into it and see how it works, but I think that would be awesome. Might not be the best quality because I don't know if I'll be able to hook up the mics and stuff to it, but we'll do our best to make it as fun as it could. I think that would be awesome. I hope y'all think that'd be fun, but yeah, that's something we might try to do. But yeah, that podcast is gonna be pretty cool. It's just gonna be it's just gonna be us just sitting around talking. I'm gonna have a setup schedule of what we're gonna be doing, and it's gonna be really cool. Gonna give us a a way to just just recap, just to reminisce about how this year's been, because we have had some powerful trips. I've been on two trips this year, and I'm telling y'all, they have been awesome. It has been a good year for Gods Little One and other missions. We uh it's been good. But anyway, thank you for listening to this episode of the Gods Little One podcast. We hope y'all enjoyed it. We hope y'all share this with others, and uh if you would like to contact us, text us, or call us for to ask us any questions or anything like that, just give us your feedback. Our phone number is 318-491-1772. If you'd like to send us a donation or anything like that, our P.O. box is P.O. Box 904, Oakdale, Louisiana, 71463. Any kind of support y'all give is greatly appreciated. We really do thank y'all for all y'all have done to help God's little one. And also, uh, if you wouldn't mind, go follow and like us on Facebook. We got a Facebook page, I do that as well, and we've slacked off on it, but we're getting back on it. Uh, I actually put something on about this podcast. It's pretty cool, I thought. So be watching that. That's where we give updates on trips coming up, trips that have happened. You see pictures and stuff on there. It's really cool. And also subscribe to our YouTube channel. That's where we go and we'll post videos of different trips and stuff. It's really cool. We got uh several videos out there. I actually got one that'll be coming out here. I don't I don't know how long, but I gotta finish and download this podcast, please, and share it with others. We really appreciate everything I'll do. God bless y'all, and I'll see y'all on the next podcast.