friends are fun!

We are having a great time with all of friends! We have been laughing and eating and laughing some more. This has been just what the doctor has ordered for all of us. The boys have been playing Wii and Annie has been playing with hair bows. Her friend Ashleigh gave her all of her old bows and Annie has been happy, happy, happy! As you can see from the pictures, Annie and Emily have found these bows to be quite entertaining. Greg had fun playing in a golf tournament in the cold and rain and I had a great time in the DRY mall! ;o) It was fun for me to sit and talk to 4 of my friends as we shared what has been happening over the past 3 and a half years. So as you can see, we are really enjoying our time here and are so thankful to all of you for your prayers.

Please continue to pray for us as we will continue to do some traveling over the next 2 weeks. Please also pray for our friend Amy tomorrow, as she will lay to rest her best friend and husband. I know it will be a difficult day for her and the family of Cody Spahr. As you read this, please lift them all up! Thank you all!

Some pictures from the past few days

Jerod and Alex eating their first Chick-fil-a meal, thank you Millie!
Annie says Chick-fil-a has the best chicken nuggets!
Annie in her new dress from Mama Say with her doll, Amber in a matching dress.

Having fun in America!

We are having a great time here! The kids have seen friends they haven't seen in almost 4 years and they have really enjoyed getting reconnected. We have really enjoyed seeing our old friends from church and enjoying worship in English! We are participating in a Global Focus week at our home church and are sharing what God is doing in Mexico. It has been great to see what He is doing all over the world.

On a sad note, my friend Amy Spahr lost her husband on Sunday. He was an awesome man of God and I know he will be missed by all who knew him. He was very popular among the Mexicans and had a true heart for them. Cody battled cancer for 10 months and now the Lord has called him home. Please pray for Amy as she is now without her best friend and praise our Father that Cody is at peace, without pain and surfing in Heaven! You can learn all about his life through their blog at: http://tribespahr.blogspot.com/

Thanks for praying!

We love America!

We have now made it to my parent's home and have really enjoyed our first night! After we ate dinner we went for a walk around my parent's neighborhood. I absolutely love to walk at night. It is something you just don't do outside of America. (I know, or some places in America) It isn't safe, and it isn't the same. There aren't beautiful neighborhoods with crickets chirping in the distance and a peaceful calm in the air. I found myself in awe at the calmness we take for granted. I don't know if I will ever feel the same about walking outside, it is just so nice to walk and feel free. In one sentence, I just want to say, " I love America!"

I will tell you I was a little shocked when we arrived home. People were out shopping, playing, getting gas, eating out, it was like any other day! Then we went to get gas and I realized, it wasn't any other day! ;o) I am understanding what you go through every day! Although times are tough, I just want you to realize that America is still the greatest country! As we flew over Atlanta, I was SOOO proud to be American! I looked out over this beautiful country and thought to myself, we as a country are far more blessed than we really know! GOD HAS BLESSED AMERICA!!

I look forward to visiting with many of you and enjoying being back here in the good ole U. S. of A! Love you!

Leaving Mexico

Yay! We are here at the airport, waiting for our plane to take off. Internet still amazes me, I feel somewhat spoiled that we have this technology! I wanted to let you all know that we will be landing in the States today! We will be in SC, NC, and IN. We will be visiting my parents, in-laws and our home church in Asheville.

Please be in prayer for us as we travel. Thank you all for you emails/comments, we love getting them! I will be in touch with many of you over the next 3 weeks, but if I don't get to say hello to all of you, please know you are in my thoughts!

I will be posting pictures of our time in the States over the next few weeks, so keep checking to see how and what we are doing!

Love you! Missy

Heading to the States!

Hey,
I haven't mentioned it, but we are heading to the U.S. for a "good" (as opposed to our visit in Texas) visit with our parents and a Global Focus conference at our church. We are leaving today ( Thursday) to go to Mexico City. We will stay there until Sunday when we will fly out and head to Charlotte, NC. We are very excited and cannot wait! We hope to see some of you there and if we don't get the chance to see you, maybe we can at least talk on the phone. I will keep updating when I can.

Please pray for our travels as we will be either driving or flying for the next 4 weeks. Love you all! Missy

70 Hot dogs!

Hi everyone!

I wanted to tell you all that tonight we had 30 people! Our numbers are growing! YAY! It was a great night and everyone seemed to enjoy their time here! I sit back and look around at our friends and I am amazed at what God is doing! I remember 3 years ago in Costa Rica when I was praying so hard to have friends here in Mexico. I was praying that God would provide us with the people He wanted us to have as friends. He definitely has answered that prayer! We were all sqooshed (SP?) in our living room tonight, what a HUGE blessing! After we listened to our story we had a special meal of chili dogs and chips. They LOVED the chili dogs! As you can see from the title we went through 70 hot dogs, 3 Super size bags of chips, and 9 liters of drink! Ha! They love to eat our food! I just wanted you to see how our night went.

Our friend Salvador who has the drinking problem, came tonight and apologized for his behavior last week. He simply said, " I am weak!" Praise God He is strong!! Please keep praying for him.

I haven't heard anything about the comfy couch house. If you know Anna and Jorge (owners of the house) or if they read this, please let us know how your house is! Keep praying for all of those in Texas, I think they have quite a while before everything is back to "normal."