This weekend we celebrated 2 birthdays, Mexico's and Jerod's! We had a wonderful time celebrating Mexico's Independence Day with lots of friends here. It was a blast! There was a short church service outside and then there was food and karaoke. We all had fun and didn't want the night to end. I have to say, when Greg told me about 2 years ago that he thought it would be best to leave our old village and move to a new area after we returned to Mexico, I cried. I did not want to do that. It has been the very best thing for our family as a whole. Our kids have so many friends here and they fit in so well. We are blessed!
Jerod's birthday is actually on August 23, however we have been so busy we haven't had time to actually celebrate his special day. We went out to eat on his birthday but as for celebrating with his friends, there just wasn't time to do so, until yesterday. Oh my what a fun day! We invited the whole youth group to a pool not too far away. It turned into a church social which was wonderful. The pictures below say it all! Much more than I can say!
Please pray for us, it will be a long week as we will be busy every day. There is a team coming to help us work with our people. They aren't coming to stay with us, they are connected through a "B" church here and 4 of the 6 don't speak any Spanish. Since we have partnered with this church (which is in all the pictures) we will be helping them to do some ministry projects with this team throughout the week. We are excited to see what God does this week! Love to you all! Missy
Jerod decorating himself for Mexican Independence Day!
Annie and our good friend, Nacho. We call him Nacho cheese or Nacho Libre!
Our family lost a game we were playing and had to sing a fun Spanish song in front of everyone, hand motions and all!
Annie and the pastor's daughter, Sara. We LOVE her! I want one!
Her she is again!
Alex was running with the flag.
This is a family we are trying to reach. They are part of our Tuesday night storying group.
J's Day, they started off playing basketball.
Trying to get up the nerve to get into the ICE water.
They did it together!
SOOOO cold!!
Annie and Sara again. God was taking care of Sara for sure! She fell into the pool when no one was around and one person just happened to see it and dove in after her. It was one of those times when you see a great day turning into a tragedy very quickly. She wasn't under for more than a minute and was fine, but sooo scared. Her Mama and the rest of us couldn't help but think of how blessed we all were that God kept things from going in another direction. For sure we will always have someone by the pool the next time we have an event like this. In the US we take our lifeguards for granted! Hug your kids!
This is their tradition, anyone who has a birthday in that month, gets thrown in the pool!
Even the pastor1
He had extra clothes and seemed to have expected it!
While I was taking the pastor's picture someone pushed Greg, (who was NOT expecting to go in) right in with all his clothes on too! FUNNY!
Annie enjoying friends.
Change of the cultures. This was funny, this little girl, Flor (Flower) came up to me and asked me for some Doritos, then Annie came up and whispered to me that she wanted one of Flor's mom's corundas. Corundas are special bread like things made in the indigenous villages here. So, her mom gave Annie a corunda and I gave Flor Doritos and they were happy!
Our birthday party.
The traditional cake in face.
He said it was good!
That's all folks!
