| Answers about Honduran political situation...
Over 100,000 march for democracy last week!
As guests in a foreign country, missionaries generally stay out of their politics. In fact, many countries do not allow foreign citizens to criticize them, which we would not do since we have so much respect for the Honduran people. We can make some observations in response to many questions:
* The country is relatively peaceful.
* Only one death has occured as a result of the gov't crisis, when one ex-president supporter killed one of his follow protesters.
* Roads & travel are ok, most of the time.
* We haven't met anybody personally that supports the ex-president.
* The gov't issues have brought the Catholic & evangelical churches together in a common cause - they are afraid of a Chavez/Castro type gov't being put in place here by the ex-president.
* Local surveys say 85-90% of Hondurans support the democratic gov't actions against the former president.
* There are no disruptions at all in our city.
* More soldiers than normal are at our local highway intersection to make sure things stay peaceful, which is nice. They have displaced the traffic cops, which everone likes!
* Rallies by each side are permitted as per free speech.
* The border to Nicaragua is closed to keep the ex-president from crossing back into the country - 500 people showed up for his last rally.
* The last pro-govt & democracy rally had over 100,000 people.
* The misleading foreign news reports have curtailed visitors & work-teams, to the detriment of the country's economy and poor folks.
* Honduran newspaper is available online in English at
http://eng.laprensa.hn/Secciones-Frias/English-Version
* People here are baffled at the lack of foreign support when they just legally defended their democratic constitution.
* Christians are placing greater trust in God to work things for their good, in spite of lack of support from other democratic nations. | 
Grace is glad to be done with shots and hospitals & such stuff. She had a follow-up appointment with her doctor today, and has 1 more scheduled check-up for a final x-ray. Thanks to God for a successful surgery and good recovery. We expect she will be released to go to Honduras in about 6 weeks.