On our way to Wake Forest!

Okay, so the few days at my parent's house has been nice but now it is on to reality. We are leaving today to move to our new home. We will be staying in an apartment on campus at Southeastern Seminary in Wake Forest, NC. Annie is very excited about bathtubs! She has had a bath every night since we have been here and LOVES them!! She is happy to know that her "new" home has a bathtub. She still is very confused when we say we are going home, she says, "Home, San Lorenzo?" So, she still had no clue! Please pray that we have a safe trip to our new home and that the transition will go well. No more grandparents around, no more cousins, no more aunts, what will they do? Thanks for continuing to pray for us. I will continue to post as long as you continue to follow!! Love, Missy

Landing... and then....Culture Shock

Friends forever!

The Twiddy family left America with us 4 years ago and they were the perfect family to greet us at the airport!


This is the family that for a few days ministered to the Purepechas in Mexico City with their church.



Thank you so much for praying! We had every possible blessing given to us! We got all of our 10 bags checked under weight and didn't have to pay for any of them! PTL!! That almost never happens for us! Both flights left almost on time and the one that left 10 minutes late arrived 30 minutes EARLY! WHAT??? I mean, that is GOD!! The kids did great, although we were very tired, they all did great!

NEAT, small world story!! There was one Mexican family of 3 that boarded the plane with us in Mexico City. We noticed them because they were sitting right beside us while we waited to board. Then we saw them again when we were buying our pizza in Washington, D.C. and then they ended up sitting behind us on the plane to Charlotte. So, when Greg heard the mother singing praise and worship songs to her little 2 year old girl, he asked her if she was a Christian. She said, "Yes." She then said they had been on a mission trip in Mexico City. Greg explained that we were missionaries and that we worked with an indigenous group called the Purepechas. She said, "Oh, we worked with them for a day or two in Mexico City."

Okay, a little background...now a few weeks back I told you we had an overnight guest passing through. Well, that overnight guest's name is David. He works in Mexico City and has been trying to reach the Purepechas that work in Mexico City. So while he was there Greg gave him a set of our stories in Purepecha on CD.

She said there are some missionaries that have been working with them and the do Bible studies with them in Spanish and they have some Bible stories on CD in Purepecha. At this point Greg and I are smiling and he said, "What is that missionaries name?" She said, "David." That is when we said, "You know those CDs, we gave those to him!" It was really quite wild! It was awesome to hear how this church in Greenville, SC was sending Mexicans back to reach their own people. I know times are tough, but they spent their money to go to a place their families left years ago, to try and reach their people.

Then we landed and were met by our friends the Twiddys and my parents. It was awesome to see family and friends. We ate at Cracker Barrel and enjoyed some good ole SWEET TEA! and home grown veggies. Then we had to stop by CVS and that is when the culture shock hit. All I needed was toothpaste, deodorant and saline solution. There were 800 choices of each. Okay, I may be exaggerating a tiny bit, but I sat there and looked at the isle bewildered trying to figure out what to buy. I closed my eyes grabbed something and left. Then I was out walking in my parents neighborhood this morning and I saw a man watering his flowers with a hose. I had the strangest urge to run and get a big bucket and fill it up for all of my friends. So, I have a lot to get used to! I will try and post more pictures later. My parents Internet is not wanting to allow it. Sorry! Love you ALL! Missy

Chapter 2 begins....

Here we go!! We are sitting in the Mexico City airport waiting for our flight to leave. It is 8:41 am and we have been up since 4. Annie is already acting tired and wanting to sleep again. Could be a VERY long day! Our plane leaves Mexico City for Washington, D.C. at 9:54 am and we will make it to Charlotte, NC at 6:45 pm tonight. Please pray our flights go well with no delays and that we arrive with all of our luggage. I will continue to post regularly. Not sure exactly how exciting it will be, but I am sure I can find something fun to post for all of you faithfuls!! Love you all so much! Missy and family

Having fun with friends!

That's a lot of pizza!


Jerod acting like he is COOL! in his new hat he made.

Annie having her new friend sign her cool painter's hat.

Alex working on his painter's hat.

J and A enjoying their pizza.

Annie enjoying her's too!

Hi everyone! We are hoping that our first Friday night meeting without us went well. We prayed for them all at 7 pm tonight when we knew they would be meeting. We plan on calling tomorrow to find out how it went. We have been having a wonderful time since we have been here! Visiting with old friends is always so refreshing! We always have so much to catch up on and so much in common. It is really nice to share our stories with one another and pray for eachother as well!

Our kids have had a blast! The hotel we are staying in, is right beside a Peter Piper Pizza, which is like Chuckie Cheese but much better! So we all ate lunch there and enjoyed time with our friends. Please continue to pray for us. We have a full day tomorrow and plan on spending a lot of time together with our friends, praying for different people groups. Love to you all! Missy

Last day.... boo hoo!

We made it! The kids had a wonderful time swimming in the pool once we made it to our first destination. We will head to Puebla, Mexico tomorrow.


Ever seen a Purepecha Yard Sale? I hadn't either, until yesterday. It was hilarious!! I told them to come to my house, I would open my door promptly at 5 and they could buy whatever I was selling for a very good price. This was the food we were selling. Everything went for about 5 cents.


I had just opened the door.

A lady grabbing the boys bedspreads. She was HAPPY!!

Fighting over food.

"Whew, this is hard work!"

This is Jerod's "Purepecha" mama, Mimica. He is gonna miss her, and she and her boys will miss him too!

It was hard saying goodbye to Mada and Adolfo. They own the land we live on and their son owns our house. They have been a big part of our lives ever since the first day we arrived here. Sometimes more of a part than I would have liked since Mada is somewhat of a snoop! :o) But today as we said a so so sad goodbye, the tears started flowing. Both of them started and then of course, I started and well, it was just one big pitty party! I just hope and pray they are still there when we return. Will you pray for them?

The lost sheep. He was the last one too! We stopped by on our way out of the village to say goodbye to Salvador. He was all by himself in his house. It was really quite sad. We talked to him and prayed with him. He said he didn't want to leave God, he wants to change, he just can't seem to beat his addiction. His heart is good, his addiction is BAD! Will you pray?

Okay, we are now safely tucked away in a nice, comfy, Holiday Inn Express and are enjoying rest and relaxation. We have eaten a wonderful meal at Chili's and we saw the movie "A Night At the Museum 2." We all loved it! It was a very tough last few days and we are glad that we made it through them in one piece! ;o) Although it was really sad to say goodbye to some of our friends it was nice knowing they were all united as a church and hopefully we will return with a stronger group than we have now! Please continue to pray for us over the next week as we will be meeting with other IMB missionaries and we will have our annual meeting. There will be many traveling from many different areas, please pray for all of our travels! Thank you! Love you!! Missy

Saying good~bye....

I hate saying good~bye I really do! However, I said it a 100 times yesterday and will say it again today. We plan on leaving today hopefully before noon. We are ready! It has been a hard last few days. It is never easy when you are living like this and the stress level is high and your kids are excited and a little crazy. There have been many tears shed and many voices raised and tempers flaired. Oh, did I say that? I bet you guys thought we never did those things since we are missionaries! ;o) Anyway, I am sure they will be glad to be done with this process just so they can have their parents back! We are headed to a larger city today to spend the night in a hotel. So hopefully we can do something fun today once we get out of here. We love our people but we have said enough good~byes to last us at least a year or more.

Please pray for our travels. We will be traveling today and tomorrow. Tomorrow we will head to Puebla, Mexico for our companies' annual meeting and we are all looking forward to that one last time before we leave Mexico next Tuesday. I love you all! Missy

Oh, high speed internet is coming at these hotels, so look for many photos! ;o)

Great night! Sad night! Fun night! Last night! :o}

So happy Miguel, Salvador's son was there, he was happy too!


We gave out plants to remind them of how the seed sower's plant should look when the seed falls on fertile soil.

Greg enjoying his last supper!

Angelica with a big smile, I was very happy to see that!

At the end we prayed for the "Lost sheep" who is Salvador. She cried and we know it is all gonna be just fine!

What an awesome night! We laughed and cried and generally had an incredible time. I really didin't know what to expect. EVERYONE came. That in itself was a miracle. Since yesterday was when they celebrated Corpus Christi (still not sure why) there was a HUGE party right beside our church. It was kinda like the devil was right outside laughing at us. They were litterally on the other side of a brick wall worshipping a statue and almost ALL of them were drunk as they did so. You could hear them hootin' and hollerin' as we were giving thanks to God for all of the many blessings we have been given over the past 3 years together. ( not at us, but just hootin' and hollerin' because they were drunk)

It was precious. Although it is a very idolic festival we knew most all of our friends would attend this party because it is just about the only fun thing that happens in the village all year. Everyone gets dressed up in their best clothes and it is more or less a reason for all of the women to show off their clothing. So we knew that many may not come, however, we had 45 come and we were thrilled to see them all one last time! I will try and add more pics later. However Greg is yellin' "LET'S GO!!" as we are heading into town for a few last errands. I am not a task master obviously! So, gotta go!