Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Greetings from “The Banana Republic” of Honduras! I arrived here safely on Tuesday, October 22nd after a short three hour flight from Miami. Missionary Homero Romero picked me up at the airport, and in the evening I attended services with him at the home of one of his church members for their mid-week preaching and prayer service.
The next day Homero drove me home to La Esperanza and helped me work on my Suburban that hasn’t been running since July. We changed the distributor cap, rotor, sparkplugs, carburetor, fuel pump and more. It still would not start! We racked our brains trying to figure out the problem, but could come up with nothing. Finally we checked the fusebox and found that the ignition fuse was faulty (It’s always those little foxes that spoil the vine it seems!) We replaced it and now the truck runs fine. However with the climbing gas prices reaching close to three dollars a gallon, it looks like I’ll be taking the bus more often in an effort to save money!
Upon my arrival home in La Esperanza, I found the house and yard in a mess. Yet with a little elbow grease, I was able to fix some leaky pipes, clean the house, mow the yard and get things in order. Unfortunately, we are having water problems in the neighborhood where I live and water is becoming scare. I’m having to adjust to this. But this is life in Honduras.
On my first Saturday here, my kids showed up for services. I was so busy getting the house in order that I didn’t have time to visit them before then, but they saw my truck as I drove into town for supplies. They knew I was back and to them this meant it was time to hold services again. At two o’clock in the afternoon, sixteen youngsters arrived and showered me with flower petals and danced around me ecstatically, telling me how glad they were to see me back. We held services and the children were very excited about some field trips we are planning to make in the next couple of weeks.
The end of October I went to Tegucigalpa and tracked down Nelson. He has moved into another house and found a new job. After calling his mother-in-law, I found out where he was working and went to see him. He was happy to see me. He told me that he has started streetpreaching since I left and is really enjoying it. What a blessing to hear! He is also very anxious about starting our Bible studies again and doing visitation.
So things are starting to get back to normal here on the field. I’m glad to be back. Thank you all for your continued prayers and support.
Through His Blood,
Robert Breaker III
Missionary In Honduras
P.S. Back in September, I bought a cassette tape duplicator that copies tapes in less than two minutes each. I obtained 300 Spanish preaching and teaching tapes from a church in Mexico, and I plan to use the duplicator to make copies and give preaching tapes to the illiterate people here in Honduras. But Cassette tapes are expensive here in Honduras (almost a dollar apiece), so if there are any old tapes you might have (60 or 90 minute), that you can spare, please send them to me at my field address below in Honduras. I have a tape eraser and could copy over them and use them. These would be a great help, and you’d be helping the Honduran people to get the gospel!
