Hi everyone! I missed yesterday because we did soooo much. We have been having a wonderful time and have been able to show the team many different aspects of our people! I am going to explain what most of the pictures above are about but it will not be in order. I also have to do it quickly since we are getting ready to leave to do a service project among our village.
First let me say that the picture of the team and our family is in front of one of the seven natural wonders of the world, called, Paricutin. It was impressive for them to see and they took lots of pictures. Then they enjoyed Monday night with our church. I believe Jamie preached a record for himself and it only lasted about 15-20 minutes. ( that is what Greg suggested) It was fun for the people to hear God's Word in 3 different languages.
Rachael was given a rebozo (shawl) by one of our poorest friends who spent almost all she had just to buy this gift for her. They were so proud to be able to give it to her and then Lupita (15 year old in the family) wanted to dress her for church in her Purepecha clothing. Rachael was honored and wore it to church. They were so proud to see her in their clothing. She looked great!! Of course Annie wanted to dress up too!
Earlier that day Rachael and Jamie tried to make tortillas by hand as one of our close friends tried to teach them. They were rainbow tortillas made from two different types of corn and she was so happy to serve us a very typical meal. Rachael who generally never eats many things different ate all of her soup and then ate a lot of the hominey SP? soup that was given to her that night. Unfortunately this came back to haunt her Tuesday morning and she was sick. ;o( So Rachael and her dad stayed home on Tuesday morning while we went to a village to do a mini-VBS.
We were told to expect about 50 kids and we planned for about that many. We arrived and started with about 20 kids. We ended with 87! What a day! I have tons of pictures of the sweet children we saw but cannot put them all on here today. Maybe soon. All of the kids as well as adults had a blast. There were about 10-15 new believers there from a larger city and one of them spoke really good English. SOOOO... Jamie was in HOG heaven when he was asked to preach to them through this translater. He spoke to them for a good hour or more and made up for his short sermon the night before! We all laughed when he told us that they asked him to sing. By himself! We asked him what he sang and he said, " I sang, At The Cross, because that is the only song I knew." We laughed and laughed that the pastor could only come up with one song he knew. There are a ton more stories to tell but everyone is waiting on me, so I will write more later! Please pray for health and safety! Love you all! Missy and friends
