Hola Por Rosa

Thirty years ago a missionary hired Rosa Garcia to be her housekeeper. She has a daughter named Brenda and a precious grandson named Carolito. She is a Sunday School teacher for the children of her church. She has a beautiful voice and sometimes sings in her church. She walks four miles one way to work at the mission house. Rosa has been in the mission house working through the years with different missionaries. I do not have many pictures of Rosa actually doing her job because she is a very much behind the scenes girl. But without Rosa their would not be a mission house that smells of Fabulaso (a wonderful lavender scent) and that is all she wants to use to keep the house clean. She sweeps and mops the entire mission house including the bunk house on a daily basis and cleans the bathrooms. The teams are very grateful to come back after a day out on the mission field to a bathroom with their trash cans emptied and the freshness of lavender in the air. Rosa really loves it when the women stay in the bunk house because they do not smell it up like our gentlemen. Sometimes I am at the house with Rosa while she is working and it is a joy to hear her sing hymns while sweeping or mopping. She takes pride in her responsibilities at the mission house. I also enjoying sitting and talking with her when it is just she and I. We both know enough of each other's language to carry on a fairly descent conversation. In the last year we have picked up teams at the airport and one of the first questions asked, "Does Rosa still work for Baptist Men?" So Rosa now has a new nickname, "ROSA FAMOSA". She is very famous for her five meals she prepares for the teams. When we go to the store to get the food she needs for the meals we have to get exactly what she asks for. The plantains have to be just the right color. It makes me nervous sometimes when I am getting the right ingredients to create the meals that come out of that kitchen. Her menu consist of beans and rice with fried plantains, spaghetti, her famous chicken and rice(my favorite), Honduran chicken soup and our newest addition Enchiladas. More of the teams have been requesting Honduran meals and Rosa wants to do what best pleases the teams. She picks the hottest part of the day to cook the meal between two and four. She gets the house cleaned then she heads into the kitchen to cook up the most awesome meal you will ever eat. Teams come and go and ask how does she make the beans and rice. Sadly no one goes back home and makes them like ROSA FAMOSA. She is one of a kind. She is always worried when there is leftovers that the team did not care for her food. Can you who are reading this and have had her meals believe she would even say that? She truly wants the best for the teams while they are in Honduras. Some of the teams do not get to see Rosa because she has gone home before they get back to the mission house. But she has the most contagious laugh. She gets tickled and you cannot help but get tickled with her. She loves serving her Lord and Savior and always gives Him the praise and honor for all she does. We are so blessed to have Rosa as our employee working beside us serving our Lord in Honduras. Thank you Rosa for all you do which very few get to see to make our team complete. God is good all the time.