Tiring, but Awesome Day!

This man started many Purepecha churches in the area and was persecuted years ago. He is now enjoying the fruit of his labor!


So sweet!






14 year old coloring, and loving it.






Notice how they have pierced her ears, they all do this, but they tied a string in hers because they were getting infected and they didn't want them to close up.




This is a very precious Purepecha woman, they don't all smile like this!




Happy, with her life in Jesus! Her husband was also persecuted for following Jesus many years ago. She is the mother to the pastor pictured above.



Little boy eating his tortilla.





Annie took this picture, this girl has a precious smile, but oh how I wish I could take her to the dentist!






I love my job!



Children eating their snack.

We had a good day. I always love being late in Mexico, it's never a big deal! We tried to have everything ready on time and wanted to leave our house at 10:00 am in order to arrive around 11:15 am. The service was supposed to start at 11:00 am. However, we always arrive first and end up waiting about 30 minutes for everyone else to arrive. Today however, we arrived at 11:45 am and were still the first to arrive! I was a little shocked. They finally started about 12:40 pm, you gotta love that. What is even funnier is that it doesn't bother anyone. I think Greg and I are going to have some serious adjusting to do when we get back to the land of the stressed! (yes, that would be many of you reading this!)

I took some pictures of the kids coloring, I thought it was so neat how they were so interested in coloring when some of them were close to 13 or 14 years old. I love that! We talked about being "Fishers of Men" and how we could do that. They told some of the stories they knew from the Bible and said they could start by telling the stories they knew and sharing those with their family and friends! It was awesome, it was Bible storying at it's best! I would say, "Who knows a Bible story?"and they would tell one they knew. Since we will be leaving in just a few months we are using all the food we have, which included the Goldfish we bought about 2 years ago. (they weren't exactly fresh) So, to go along with the "Fishers of Men" theme we ate Goldfish and played some games. Hope you like the pics. Love to all! Missy

Feeling Tired

It has been a very long week and we are feeling very tired! This picture of Annie in Wal-mart says it all! We will be headed to a village about an hour away for an all-day church anniversary meeting. These things are REALLY long and tiring and I am sure we will feel like that again tonight. I will be in charge of all of the kids while the adults listen to the preaching. This was a job that was just given to me, but one that I like, so it should be fun! I will be sure and post a lot of pictures from todays activites!

I wanted to share with you about this girl above. Her name is Claudia and she is about 11 years old. She came to me the other day and told me she wanted to invite Jesus into her heart. Which she did shortly after, and said she was ready to follow Jesus every day of her life. She comes every Monday and Friday and many days she comes by herself without any family. She has a strong desire to know more about her Savior and has started helping Jerod with the children. ( a huge blessing) Please pray for her! Love to you all! Missy

Oh, keep praying for Clay's hand, God has some more time to heal it, because they postponed the surgery on his hand until a later date. We want him to grow up with all 10 fingers! Please pray!!