Volcano Pictures

One of the 7 NATURAL Wonders of the World! The Volcano, not Christian!!
This is out of order, but this is taken from the top of the crater looking into it. Pretty cool! Our friend, Christian decided he would climb down into it. That is his head in the very center of it. The little dot.




This was a group of MK girls, with Annie in the middle, in front of the volcano at the start of the day.

This was before the climb, Jerod, Alex and an MK friend, Christian. This was taken a few miles in front of the volcano.

This was on the way up the climb. I kidded my friend, Anita and said we needed to stop every few minutes and take pictures, when what I really wanted to do was breathe! So, this was us stopping to take some pictures! ;o) Notice everyone else was in front of us.

This was taken 45 minutes later, when I made it to the top! At the top of this volcano in a village near ours in Mexico. It is about 9213 feet above sea level, guess that is why I needed oxygen! Although, we live about 20 minutes away so you would think I would be used to it, but a few thousand feet makes a difference!

I was just happy to be alive!

Greg and Annie at the top of the crater, the wind was whipping by and he had to hold on to her so she wouldn't blow off!

Our friends Andrea and Alicia

Me and Andrea, she helped me make it to the top! She was my moral support, and let me tell you, I needed moral support! ( or oxygen)

Alex, Jerod, and Annie at the top of the crater.

This was the trip down the volcano. It was 100 times more fun than going up! If I had known how fun going down was, I would have enjoyed going up a lot more!

I don't know if you can tell, but our teeth are covered in black ash from the volanic ash that got stuck all over them throughout the day. YUM!!

The sliding board from the top of the volcano, to the bottom.

Eating in the truck, they were HUNGRY!!

View from the bottom.

Yesterday I was reminded of many things! We joined our friends the Morris family and had a HUGE yard sale. It was a lot of fun! Not like when I left the States and was emotionally attached to everything, this was, "Get rid of anything that we don't want to see in a year!" (which was a lot) So, we sold a lot of things, of course everything was sold dirt cheap and the people left happy. I was reminded of our departure from the States and how nervous I was. Now I am once again we are departing a country and once again, WE are faced with many transitions, please pray! Especially for Annie, who really doesn't understand what we are doing.

Anyway, I was also reminded of our trip with the Morris family to the volcano. I never posted pictures of it because I left my camera in their car. So, now I have the pictures ( I have had them for quite some time) and wanted to share the experience with you. It was a funfilled day and a great experience! I hope to do it again next year! (only with less of me!!)

Please continue to pray for us as Mexico isn't exactly the safest place to be right now. HOWEVER, the will of God IS the BEST place to be, so I am not worried. I know He called us on the field at the time when He did and I really feel it is His timing that we are heading home soon. We do need your prayers!

Mama, and Honey, ( my parents) Don't freak out!! I am only telling people this so they will pray, not because I think I am in immediate danger! (I can hear my phone ringing!) So, you can add my parents to your prayers! :o) Love to all! Missy

Celebrating life!

Praying for the mama to be.


How sweet is this baby? She was begging to have her picture taken and I was loving taking it! Can you tell?



This is where culture is definitely present! Notice the back of the rented chairs advertize a Mexican beer, and look right in the center of the picture, that is a horse. Yep, a horse came! ;o)



I'm gonna be a big sis!!




This was the very fun toilet paper guessing game, how big is she really? I don't think she liked this game very much!


This was definitely where the culture came out! Who has the most children? She won, with.....you guessed it..11! Ha, you don't hear that much at baby showers in the U.S!


Today I spent the day with two other friends in a village not too far away, celebrating life. A friend of ours is expecting her 5th child in the next few weeks. We celebrated with a baby shower. (which they didn't really know what a baby shower was before today) It was a lot of fun and my friends, Jenell and Sharon did a great job hosting it! I pretty much just tagged along. You can see by the pictures that even though we tried to make it like an American baby shower, there was still a lot of Purepecha culture present! Please pray for Luisa over the next 2 weeks as she prepares for baby number 5!

Medical frustrations

Hi everyone! I am so frustrated with how our people are treated by the medical doctors here. Now not ALL of the doctors, but a lot of them treat our friends like they are NOTHING. It really urks me! The other day our friend pictured here, Concha, was having a lot of abdominal pain and back pain.

Now, I am not a Dr. but, I have been to enough to know what the first questions they ask are going to be. Are you pregnant? Do you hurt when you pee? Does it hurt when you poo? Do you have loose stools? You know all those normal ?s. So, anytime one of our friends is sick, they always call me and I always ask those questions. Well, if it is a man, I usually leave out the first one! ;o)

Hope I am not giving too much info, but if I am, SORRY! Greg is asleep and he usually is my proof reader if I think I could be crossing the line! So, just remember, who is writing this! :o) So, I went to see her and the first question I asked was are you pregnant? Which she said, I think, I am , I am 2 months late. So, I immediately think she is having a miscarriage. AGAIN, I am NO Dr. but come on, how smart do you have to be? So I ask a few more personal questions about what was happening and then I think okay, for sure, you are having a miscarriage. So, I ask, have you been to the Dr? Which she says, "Yes, 3 times." They told me it was indigestion, then they said it was gastritis, and then they said, oh maybe I should have an ultra sound." I asked if they did the ultra sound and she said, we didn't have the money then. We had spent it all on medicine for all of the other things. So, I say, "Did they give you a pregnancy test?" "No, they said, it wasn't necessary." ME: (red faced and mad) "THEY SAID WHAT?" Okay so I tell her that since it is Sunday ( I didn't say this, but I thought, and she had probably already lost the baby since this had been going on for about 2 weeks) she could probably wait until the morning and then I think she should go to a gynecologist and have them look at her and see what they think. So, she did go and the did find she was "aborting" her baby so they then did a DNC on her.

All of this to say, I am sick and tired of them treating MY people like they are stupid and worthless and good for nothing. Why would any Dr. not have the decency to treat her as if she were his own mother or daughter or wife? I don't understand. I am so sad. She really wanted another little baby. Please pray for her as she is really heart broken and discouraged.

Prayer time with our Sunday School Class In Asheville

Pray for Pedro, that he too will accept Jesus.


This is Mimicka, she has now found her Savior!



Isaiah 11:6 ...and a little child will lead them.
This is Migue and Pepe and I think this verse is perfect for them!



This is Mike when he was here with Petra and Prisiliano. They were at our house today when Mike's class did the video prayer time. Prisiliano was so touched to have Mike pray for him!

Greg praying.

Prayer time with the BBC class.

I love that God called us to be missionaries at a time when technology is so advanced! It makes communication so much easier than it was for those who were on the field years ago. Today we had a video prayer time using Skype, with our Sunday School class at Biltmore Baptist Church. It was awesome to be able to connect with them and help them understand a little bit more about our lives here in Mexico. We had some of our believers present and they were really surprised that you could actually communicate through the computer. Keep in mind they don't really understand email, so imagine them trying to understand how they could see people and talk to them through the computer. It was neat! I took a few pictures while they were praying, ( I was praying in spirit, but had to capture the moment for all of you to see!) It was so neat to hear their prayers in 3 different languages, Purepecha, Spanish and English. I know God had to be smiling! It meant a lot to us all that Mike took us back to our class and has made us come alive to them. I know our believers here were touched to see so many Americans praying for them. Especially since they are sometimes treated as if they aren't important.

Then tonight our friend Mimicka came over and shared with us that her children had come home after our Bible study on Monday and had explained to her that they had made decisions to follow Jesus. They told her that they understood that they were sinners and wanted to accept Jesus as their Savior. So they told her that during our study on Monday night that they had prayed to invite Jesus into their hearts. I taught the class on Monday night and so I knew that this could have happened and I was wondering what she was going to say next.

She then explained how her oldest (8) had told their dad he wanted him to stop drinking and that he himself was going to start obeying. She then told me she too wanted to invite Jesus into her heart. So after going through a short Bible study she too invited Jesus into her heart. She then asked Greg if he would come by their house this week and share this message with her husband Pedro. Please pray that Pedro would receive this message well too. We are PRAISING God tonight! It has truly been a great day! Thank you ALL for praying! Missy

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!!

Alex still has all his organs!

Good morning everyone! Yay God! (again!) I must say this little stomach thing really confused me! First let me give you a little bit of background. Alex had some stomach pain on Wednesday night once we got back from our day trip but we live in Mexico and this is really nothing abnormal, so he went to bed. Then yesterday he woke up holding his right side and saying my stomach hurts soooo bad. I first thought it was gas and gave him something for that. I then started pushing on his stomach and asking where it hurt. He said no to almost every place except from the bottome, right side of his belly button and over. Then when you pushed on his appendix he would yelp. So, we decided that since he was in such pain, we should take him to the Dr. since we don't exactly live close. That is what we did.

First they said it was just gas. Then we left and came back about an hour later with him doubled over in pain and throwing up, and they said, maybe it was more. ;o} So, I asked to have an ultra sound because my fear was we would return to our village about 40 minutes away and lately it has been longer because of road construction and we would have problems again. So, they did the ultra sound, said he had some inflammed intestines and it would go one way or the other. They said, bring him back if he has a fever or he is throwing up more.

So of course we come back home and he starts throwing up more. (why is it that at the hospital he hit the trash can dead on and at home it went EVERYWHERE?) He fell asleep and seemed to be resting comfortably. He woke up about 11:30 pm and wanted to watch t.v. Now his father of course is snoring and I am left to watch t.v. with him. So during this time he spikes a fever of 101 and I am stuck wondering what I should do. Okay, he isn't doubled over in pain, but now he has thrown up and has had a fever. So....... he went to sleep after we watched Bewitched, I Dream of Jeanie, and Fresh Prince. That will definitely take you back to some weird memories! Anyway, he slept through the night and this morning he feels much better. So....... I guess it was a stomach infection and I have no idea why it was only his right side that hurt unless it was to just make me go a little crazy!

All of that to say, thank you so much for your prayers! I especially want to thank DeeDee for her prayers when little Clay is needing every prayer she has! If you read this today, please pray for Clay. He will be having surgery on his left hand (a very important fishing hand, I might add) today at 1:00pm Texas time. So, please pray all goes well and that he recovers from his accident quickly! http://www.claydavidfite.blogspot.com/ Love to all of you!