Okay so Saturday Hermana Oram and Zaleta got super super super super lost in the middle of the forest for 3 hours. It all started out when we went to visit a member and she told us there was a shortcut to get to the other part of our area. She said just follow this little trail there will be a bunch of pine trees and it is super solo but it will take you right to the other part of our area. So we started walking...we couldn’t even imagine what we were about to get ourselves into. We walked and walked and walked (like pioneer children) and got to a steep downhill part so we went down then we had to climb up another mountain so we bear crawled (in skirts) up this recently burnt mountain so we got covered in ash. Then we had to go back down the other side of this mountain to get to this river then we took off our shoes and crossed the river then walked and walked and walked a little more and crossed the river again and found an abandoned scout camp (just like that creepy episode of Psych literally the scout camp looked just like it). In the scout camp there was a sign that said ^Bienvenidos Perdido^ so then we were slightly freaked out and then realized that we were really, really lost. So we walked a little more crossed another river and found a huge nursery with a huge field of birds of paradise it was super pretty. Well we found some workers changing and asked them how to get to where we were going because we were super lost. Well they told us we had to go back to this old abandoned brick boys bathroom so we found the abandoned house and started hiking up straight up a mountain but then we had to go down STRAIGHT DOWN. And well my comp got down just fine but I slipped and fell and fell down the mountain (just like Hot Rod. It wasn’t quite as long but I am pretty sure it looked about the same) and when I landed in the bottom of this valley a huge rock fell and smashed my foot but did absolutely nothing not a bruise, scar, nothing. So I lifted the huge rock from my foot (like bigger than a basketball) and fixed my skirt that was up to my chin and we hiked back up crossing a bunch of barbed wire and at this point it had been 2 hours, so we called out Zone Leaders to say that we were lost in the forest and that we weren’t sure if we were going to make it out alive they told us to pray... so we prayed and about 30 minutes later after bear crawling up a huge mountain we found a road and walked to our lunch appt. 2 hours late. We were soaked in sweat covered in ash and eaten by I don’t even know what kind of species of bugs but we survived and now I can tell my kids about the time I almost lost my skirt in the middle of the Honduran forest. We showed the pictures to members that have lived here for their whole lives and know the whole forest and no one knows where we ended up! But our prayers were answered and we got out alive...almost.
But we learned to never leave the path and pray and pray and pray.
Hermana Oram
But we learned to never leave the path and pray and pray and pray.
Hermana Oram