2006 Mexico Mission Diary |
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People and Places Even though we broke into small work teams much of the day, we came together for meals and for a devotional time each evening. These were good times.
We fixed most of our own meals. Lunches and dinners included chili, pot roast, chicken and noodles. Breakfasts included biscuits and gravy and pancakes. We invited the mission workers to most of our meals.
Every evening, we met in the cool breezes of the veranda to sing praises to God, to pray, and to listen to a devotional someone had prepared. George did a dramatic devotional Sunday night about the need for salvation. Rob Wilkes did devotionals Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday about spiritual disciplines. He asked me if I'd do Wednesday's devotional about a spiritual discipline, and I agreed. Sanille brought her guitar, prepared a songbook for us, and led us in song every night. We sang many familiar tunes, and she taught us a new song based on Psalm 9: I will praise
I will tell
I will sing praise to Your Name, O Most High
The vendors by and large speak decent English. One of the vendors' English wasn't quite adequate when she wanted to tell me that I looked to her like some famous Mexican singer. She had to get another vendor to translate for her. In the photo at left, most of us are shopped out and waiting for the rest of the group to show up so we could head back to the misson compound.
It is wonderful to see how much Albina and her family have made of this place, especially since, frankly, there are a ton of mistakes on this house. Whoever laid the block didn't leave space for the windows, so someone sledgehammered holes for them, which left huge gaps that had to be filled with cement. And don't even get me started on all the mistakes we made applying the stucco. We were definitely a rookie crew. Who knows how many times Albina may have cursed our names for some of the work we did. But she has certainly made a great deal out of what she was given.
Jair and his wife Norma came out to eat, too, as did Abner and his family, including his father and his sister and her children, who were all visiting from the United States. I talked with Abner's father for a while. He has lived everywhere from Baltimore to Abilene and had some interesting stories to tell.
Abner and his wife tried to adopt Jacqueline, but were denied. Apparently there is a cultural resistance in Mexico to Mexicans adopting Mexicans.
This is all of us. We were a small group this year, but I trust that we were mighty in God's hands. Row 1: Erika, Sanille, Dawn, Connie |
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