Hola! It{s Mrs. Portillo. Today is officially our last day of ministry, and for some reason, it{s gone by super fast and it seems as though we{ve been here forever. The kids are doing great...I{m honestly just impressed with their good attitudes and desire to do ministry here. I sit in the crowd while they do their dramas and watch how people react to them...usually with rapt attention and tears in their eyes. Some of the natives here just cannot believe that these kids would leave their homes to come here to witness to others. Yesterday, Tuesday, we had an opportunity to go to some hot springs for showers. The downside was that we had to get up early to drive there. We had to hike to the pools about a half mile, but it was worth the wait. Everyone found a little pool and started washing their hair. It{s amazing how great it feels to be even a little clean.
For the Green Team, we went to the local high school and spent some time talking to the students there in English. The students there seemed pretty shy at first, but then they started to open up. It was quite a sight to see our students shouting out words in English, pointing to things and trying to get the Spanish students to pronounce things in English. For me, it was great fun to see them in the role of teacher. Maybe we will have a few future teachers in this group, who knows..
We spent the afternoon in the town square of Progresso, the same town where we went to church on Sunday. We put on a full program and even had several people come forward at the end, despite the rain that suddenly poured down on us. These kids are growing in boldness..I looked out at one point and saw them all huddled around people, praying or showing them verses in the Spanish Bibles we brought. We then loaded the van and headed to a little town in the mountains. THe audience was mostly children, maybe 100 or so. We pulled out frisbees, which apparently is a foreign object to most of them, and soccer balls. These children were obviously from poorer homes as most had holes in their clothes and had dirty clothes. But our kids played with them non stop without any reservations. We put on our program again, but geared it more towards the kids this time. We put together salvation bracelets with the children and Mr. Sauer gave an invitation message to the adults. It{s amazing how these people are so uninhibited and will come forward for prayer without any hesitation. They have such soft hearts. The church there, which is composed of about 3 families, served us a meal in their tiny building. Most meals come with some sort of drink, and this time it was very sweet coffee with cinnamon. This, unfortunately, left several of our boys bouncing off the walls. It was a long day, so we all headed to bed.
As far as prayer requests, continue praying for energy and endurance. We have had packed days so far, and even though these guys are tired, they have had great attitudes and will do anything we ask of them. We{ve been so fortunate to have little to no sickness, which is amazing considering we haven{t really had the facilities to stay clean. Danielle Whitmore wasn{t feeling great the second day, but is doing much better. We{ve encouraged the kids to drink a lot of water to avoid dehydration. Hannah Sparlin has had a constant headache and seems to have had a stomach ache as well, so we{ve kept her in the shade a lot and tried to let her rest more. Zach Wilkins had a headache yesterday, but seems to feeling great today. We appreciate all your prayers and will try to keep you updated on how we do. Tomorrow is our day of rest...we{ll probably go to a water park, maybe do some hiking and some shopping.
You all would really be so proud of these guys...I know that Mr. Sauer, Mrs. Miller and I keep saying that over and over again. The lessons you parents have taught them are shining through in amazing ways.
Gloria a Dios!!!!
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
monday/green team/david calandro
sunday night i ate a slice of pig tounge which was pretty awesome. monday morning we woke up at seven and david rice was on the ground. last night sam brehm and calandro which is the person writing this and rice slept in hammocks in the front yard. the rebar sticking out of the roof bent and rice{s hammock fell because the rope fell off. after i ate seven tamales and some awesome donut bread things we walked to the kindergarten. we played with the kids and laura taught them a lesson in spanish. then we did follow the leader and duck duck goose which the kids had never heard of before but they loved it.
Showers? Who needs those?
Hola! Sorry about taking so long to blog. We are in the tiniest little town ever, and I think Im on the only computer here. After two flights, a two hour wait for vans, 10 rounds of catchphrase and a 3 hour van ride later, we made it to our home base. We call it Chill, mostly because none of us can actually pronounce it correctly. The houses are primative, but large and open. Each team has their own house. The white team has a bigger house, but it has no shower, and a toliet that doesnt flush. The green teams house has a toliet that flushes, which is really awesome. Most of the guys hung up their hammocks outside, and sleep there each night. The girls are holding down camp from the inside, and donating any towels or extra blankets we have to keep them warm. Everyone is plenty safe, warm, and well fed.
Yesterday was a very long, but fun day as well. We started with breakfast that a church made for us of beans, meat, and peppers. Yum! Everyone is being a great sport with the food. We headed over to a church, and put on 3 Sunday school lessons and a VBS. We also got the front row seats in the main service of their worship service. It was like a massive party! Culture shock officially set in now as we watched dancers with flags, ribbons, and tamborines dance for an hour straight, the praise band played defeaning music, and every now and then a tube of confetti was shot off and rained down on us. It was rather humbling to see them worship God with such enthusiam. I wanted to wrap up those dancers and take them back to the CHCS chapel, and show everyone how to really enjoy themselves.
After this the two teams split up. The white team headed out to a tiny concrete church and put on a short service. Then we headed up to another village, and ended up getting about 250 people to come and watch an open air street service that we put on. We pulled out all the stops with puppets, all the dramas we knew, and a great message by Patton. Our first run through of El Mundo went great, complete with a drunk mimicking every scence, shattering a beer bottle, and me accidently kicking Nick pretty hard in the gut.
After all of this, Mrs. Harryman gave an altar call, and we spent a good hour praying for whoever came. These people would come up to us, ramble on in Spanish, ask rayer. The best thing was, after we prayed for them, they would turn around and lay their hands on us and pray for us! What a humbling experience. After here, we all dragged our sore, dusty, and tired bodies back to the houses and crashed for the night.
Today is going to be about the same thing. We travel around putting on services and VBS programs. I know that the Green Team is at a kindergarden right now. As for us...WE GET TO TAKE SHOWERS!! We invaded the Green Teams house (well, the girls did), and one by one we are washing our hair in a bucket out back, then rinsing off in frigid water. Its rather glorious! This is the house with the computer, so Im going to leave the blog here for the other team to write as well. We left the guys heating up water in a massive pot out in the courtyard to take bucket showers. Im sure they are having a little man fest with that.
Please keep praying for us! Everyone has great attitudes and is still feeling pretty good. However, we are lacking on energy. The food is great, and the teams have never been closer...literally. They pack us pretty tightly in the vans.
We miss you all, and will write as often as we can. However, I dont see another chance to write or take showers in the near future...most likely until Friday night when we get home. But hey! We are just building tons and tons of character! Keep us in your prayers. And sorry about all the typos. Over wright got turned on, and because everything is in Spanish, we have no idea how to turn it off. Hopefully that will explain the random words missing. Oh! And I cant find the apostrophe either. :)
Love you Mom and Dad!
Bethany
Yesterday was a very long, but fun day as well. We started with breakfast that a church made for us of beans, meat, and peppers. Yum! Everyone is being a great sport with the food. We headed over to a church, and put on 3 Sunday school lessons and a VBS. We also got the front row seats in the main service of their worship service. It was like a massive party! Culture shock officially set in now as we watched dancers with flags, ribbons, and tamborines dance for an hour straight, the praise band played defeaning music, and every now and then a tube of confetti was shot off and rained down on us. It was rather humbling to see them worship God with such enthusiam. I wanted to wrap up those dancers and take them back to the CHCS chapel, and show everyone how to really enjoy themselves.
After this the two teams split up. The white team headed out to a tiny concrete church and put on a short service. Then we headed up to another village, and ended up getting about 250 people to come and watch an open air street service that we put on. We pulled out all the stops with puppets, all the dramas we knew, and a great message by Patton. Our first run through of El Mundo went great, complete with a drunk mimicking every scence, shattering a beer bottle, and me accidently kicking Nick pretty hard in the gut.
After all of this, Mrs. Harryman gave an altar call, and we spent a good hour praying for whoever came. These people would come up to us, ramble on in Spanish, ask rayer. The best thing was, after we prayed for them, they would turn around and lay their hands on us and pray for us! What a humbling experience. After here, we all dragged our sore, dusty, and tired bodies back to the houses and crashed for the night.
Today is going to be about the same thing. We travel around putting on services and VBS programs. I know that the Green Team is at a kindergarden right now. As for us...WE GET TO TAKE SHOWERS!! We invaded the Green Teams house (well, the girls did), and one by one we are washing our hair in a bucket out back, then rinsing off in frigid water. Its rather glorious! This is the house with the computer, so Im going to leave the blog here for the other team to write as well. We left the guys heating up water in a massive pot out in the courtyard to take bucket showers. Im sure they are having a little man fest with that.
Please keep praying for us! Everyone has great attitudes and is still feeling pretty good. However, we are lacking on energy. The food is great, and the teams have never been closer...literally. They pack us pretty tightly in the vans.
We miss you all, and will write as often as we can. However, I dont see another chance to write or take showers in the near future...most likely until Friday night when we get home. But hey! We are just building tons and tons of character! Keep us in your prayers. And sorry about all the typos. Over wright got turned on, and because everything is in Spanish, we have no idea how to turn it off. Hopefully that will explain the random words missing. Oh! And I cant find the apostrophe either. :)
Love you Mom and Dad!
Bethany
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Round Two!
Hey everyone! It's that time of the year again! In just three days from now we will be in Mexico. We are just going to use the same blog this year, mostly because it's so much easier than setting up another one. As for the blogging this year, we are uncertain as to how often we can blog. I think I have a few people convinced that it's not so scary to write home about the going ons of the trip, so maybe this year we can have both teams write a bit. I don't blame them, however, because the keyboards and the entire computer system is in Spanish. So when a warning pops up with the options of "Si" or "No", and you have no idea what it says...well, needless to say it's rather intimidating. Please understand and forgive any small misspellings or typos.
Start your prayers now! I know we all have been preparing for months for this trip. Pray especially for safety and energy for the teams and sponsers. See you Friday night!
Start your prayers now! I know we all have been preparing for months for this trip. Pray especially for safety and energy for the teams and sponsers. See you Friday night!
Friday, March 12, 2010
Thanks!
Hey everyone! One last post. Thank you so much for your prayers and support throughout the trip. After a long day of travel, everyone arrived home safe and in one piece. God did many wonderful things this trip, and I hope you get to hear many stories for a long time to come. Thanks once again!
~Beth :)
~Beth :)
El fine! Hasta Manaña!
Wow. Once again it is midnight, and we have just reached our homes. The girls are packing behind me as I hurridly try to write this so I can pack as well. Today was less intense then the other days. We got to sleep in a little bit later, and met up at the church. After our usual prayer time, the White Team headed out to the same university the Green Team visited on Tuesday. By the way-I think I finally convinced somebody from the White Team to write an update tonight! These computers are pretty scary, because they keyboard as well as the screen are all in Spanish. That might explain the lack of punctuation. I have yet to find the apostrophe button. Anyways, the Green Team had reached a dilema. We did not exactly have a plan as to where we were going to go. There were many different choices, but no one could quite decide exactly where God wanted us to be for that day. So we did something that Im sure many of us have never done. We circled up, and voiced prayers to God, asking for wisdom and clarity as to where to go. Many ideas came up-go back to the homeless people, head to a broken womens shelter, and even go back to the university. But the overall feeling was that we were needed at a halfway house, or some kind of rehab center. Sure enough, God provided. There was one only about 5 minutes away from the church that no one really knew about. So without even calling ahead, we loaded into the vans and headed over. We pulled up, and all of the sponsers went in as we waited in the vans. We waited in the hot vans, sweating and waiting in suspense to see what marvelous things God had prepared for us. The sponsers came hurrying out, and said that we had 30 minutes to put on our drama, El Mundo, and share the Good News. Thats it? 30 minutes to tell these broken, addicted men about Jesus? No pressure! So we breathed a prayer of thanks and piled out of the vans to set up.
The room where we had to perform was tiny! This was a huge difference from the open air parks we had been in previously. We made some quick adjustments, and did our best. There were only about 10 men seated there to watch and listen. But wow! With eyes wide they watched us act. Then Mr. Sauer went up to preach. What a message! With such restricted time, and with such passion, he spoke to them about forgiveness, and being free of the bonds of hatred. When we offered to prayer for them, the men openly shared about their lives. One young many was 18, and had been using drugs for over 5 years! We talked and prayed for each individual one. But all this work for only 10 men? Well, one man accepted Christ! And so many others asked for Bibles. We hooked them up with the church, and unfortunetly had to leave before we could answer all of their questions. Many seeds were planted, and I think we gave them the hope that they needed to break their addictions.
Afterwards, we did our usual tango through the streets of Mexico City, and went back to meet up with the White Team at the university. They had already done their dramas, and were talking with the students. This time, a professor sent out her entire English class to come and talk to us for their lesson that day. What an opportunity! God sent us at least 50 people that wanted nothing more to practice their English and talk with us, while we wanted nothing more than to talk to them! We did for an hour, maybe more. Once loses track of time here. We finally had to pull oursleves away, and left more connections with the church there. I have a very good feeling that this small church will be overwhelmed on Sunday morning.
The rest of the day was rather celebratory. We went back to the church, and ate a wonderful meal. It was some delicious soup and rolled tacos. I say meal because it was neither lunch nor dinner, as it was about 430pm. Then we ran down the street to the local 7-11, and spent the rest of our pesos on some ice cream. Then we relaxed and discussed the days events with each other.
At 7pm, the church had a special service for us. We sang songs in Spanish...well, they did. We stood around and smiled, or pathetically tried to sing along. Afterwards, we performed El Mundo once again in a ridiculously small space. The church then asked us to share what God had done in our lives this week. Many people went up and told the church people though a translator how God used them, and used the church. We thanked them for all of their hard work, and hugs, handshakes, and pictures were ubiquitos.
Everyone now was in quite the celebratory mood. We all went walking down the street singing and laughing, and drawing alot of attention to oursleves. We presented quite the funny picture. Most people were in their bright lime green shirts, and we are all tall, blonde Americans. Cars would stop and watch us as we walked along. We went to a local taco shop for 2nd dinner, and had some amazing tacos! Hot sauce, bottles of coke, and tortillas were passes up and down the tables like it was Thanksgiving. Throughout the meal, we would randomly break out into song, sometimes in Spanish, and sometimes in English. It was a ton of fun! We went back and loaded up the vans, and headed back to our host homes. It was about midnight when we finally arrived.
We are leaving the house at 520am tomorrow, or is it today already?
I think many of us want to stay another week, and see what else we can do for the glory of God. But we love all of you as well, so I guess we will be coming home. We will call when we can, and we are looking forward to seeing you all. Be prepared for a group of sunburned, tired, hungry, dirty, and smelly high schoolers! I better get to packing, otherwise I will be laying down when it is time to get up. Thank you so much for your prayers all week. We definetly felt them while we were down here. Everyone has some pretty unique stories to tell you when we get back. Im sure there will be tons of pictures on facebook by tomorrow night for your viewing pleasure. Pray for a safe trip home! Adios Mexcio! Te amo!
-Beth (Hasta manaña Mama y Papa!)
The room where we had to perform was tiny! This was a huge difference from the open air parks we had been in previously. We made some quick adjustments, and did our best. There were only about 10 men seated there to watch and listen. But wow! With eyes wide they watched us act. Then Mr. Sauer went up to preach. What a message! With such restricted time, and with such passion, he spoke to them about forgiveness, and being free of the bonds of hatred. When we offered to prayer for them, the men openly shared about their lives. One young many was 18, and had been using drugs for over 5 years! We talked and prayed for each individual one. But all this work for only 10 men? Well, one man accepted Christ! And so many others asked for Bibles. We hooked them up with the church, and unfortunetly had to leave before we could answer all of their questions. Many seeds were planted, and I think we gave them the hope that they needed to break their addictions.
Afterwards, we did our usual tango through the streets of Mexico City, and went back to meet up with the White Team at the university. They had already done their dramas, and were talking with the students. This time, a professor sent out her entire English class to come and talk to us for their lesson that day. What an opportunity! God sent us at least 50 people that wanted nothing more to practice their English and talk with us, while we wanted nothing more than to talk to them! We did for an hour, maybe more. Once loses track of time here. We finally had to pull oursleves away, and left more connections with the church there. I have a very good feeling that this small church will be overwhelmed on Sunday morning.
The rest of the day was rather celebratory. We went back to the church, and ate a wonderful meal. It was some delicious soup and rolled tacos. I say meal because it was neither lunch nor dinner, as it was about 430pm. Then we ran down the street to the local 7-11, and spent the rest of our pesos on some ice cream. Then we relaxed and discussed the days events with each other.
At 7pm, the church had a special service for us. We sang songs in Spanish...well, they did. We stood around and smiled, or pathetically tried to sing along. Afterwards, we performed El Mundo once again in a ridiculously small space. The church then asked us to share what God had done in our lives this week. Many people went up and told the church people though a translator how God used them, and used the church. We thanked them for all of their hard work, and hugs, handshakes, and pictures were ubiquitos.
Everyone now was in quite the celebratory mood. We all went walking down the street singing and laughing, and drawing alot of attention to oursleves. We presented quite the funny picture. Most people were in their bright lime green shirts, and we are all tall, blonde Americans. Cars would stop and watch us as we walked along. We went to a local taco shop for 2nd dinner, and had some amazing tacos! Hot sauce, bottles of coke, and tortillas were passes up and down the tables like it was Thanksgiving. Throughout the meal, we would randomly break out into song, sometimes in Spanish, and sometimes in English. It was a ton of fun! We went back and loaded up the vans, and headed back to our host homes. It was about midnight when we finally arrived.
We are leaving the house at 520am tomorrow, or is it today already?
I think many of us want to stay another week, and see what else we can do for the glory of God. But we love all of you as well, so I guess we will be coming home. We will call when we can, and we are looking forward to seeing you all. Be prepared for a group of sunburned, tired, hungry, dirty, and smelly high schoolers! I better get to packing, otherwise I will be laying down when it is time to get up. Thank you so much for your prayers all week. We definetly felt them while we were down here. Everyone has some pretty unique stories to tell you when we get back. Im sure there will be tons of pictures on facebook by tomorrow night for your viewing pleasure. Pray for a safe trip home! Adios Mexcio! Te amo!
-Beth (Hasta manaña Mama y Papa!)
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Sunburns, speedbumps, and suds.
Today was an extremely long day. It is about midnight, and we have just reached our host homes, so forgive me if my post is not all the way up to par. To start out, we had two girls come down sick. Laura caught some sort of cold, and was running quite a high fever. Myself came down with some 24 hour flu, and spent the entire night throwing up. That was pretty awsome though, because I got to stick my head out of a van to throw up, moving at 50 miles per hour, weaving in and out of traffic. But I think Laura and I feel much better now thanks to the prayers of our friends.
We started the day by driving two hours out of Mexico City to a small town pronounced Chill. This is where David, our coordinator, grew up. We ate lunch in this really cute hut with a thatched roof on carved, wooden pinic tables. Davids family served us a wonderful homemade lunch with too many dishes to name. After lunch, we ran down the road a bit and explored a huge waterfall. It was a rainforest type atmosphere, damp and cool. That was very nice, because Im sure it got to 90 degrees in the sun! We all have the very nice red blush flaming across our noses and cheeks now. Needless to say, we took some gorgeous pictures and relaxed for a few minutes. The boys took this opportunity to see how close they could get to the waterfall without getting wet, or caught by the sponsors. This in itself was extremely entertaining.
We once again split up. Im so very sorry that I can only report of the Green Teams activities, but I do know the White Team is having a wonderful, and very similar experience. We went to a local park in this same small town. David said we were the first group to ever bring the Good News. We performed our dramas, sang songs, and put on a puppet show for the niños (That means children in Spanish.) Kelsi Bodine shared an inspiring testimony that moved everyone there. When we invited people to come up and recieve Christ, to our joy about 15 new brothers and sisters walked up to the front! We rejoiced and prayed with them for quite a while, as much as we could with our limited Spanish. Unfortunetly, we had to leave and move on to another place that God had prepared for us.
We continued on to a small, concrete church. Literally, it was completely concrete. The walls, the roof, the floors-everything! It was very open and airy, with no doors and large holes for windows. This group was mostly church people, we geared our presentation for towards encouraging them instead of the Gospel message. We sang some songs in English, then they sang for us in Spanish. A smile is a smile, no matter the language, right? Amos, Mallory, Kelsi, and Mrs. Miller shared a few words, and we performed our drama. Afterwards, we once again prayed with these believers. This is an amazing experience. In the USA, when thé pastor asks everyone to bow their heads and pray, everyone reverently bows their heads, and silently listens while the pastor prayers. I think it gave us all a shock when everyone started praying at once! So many voices lifted to God at the same time in different languages sounds incredible, even if you cant understand the words. We played with the niños for awhile, then told them all adios, and that we would be praying.
Whew! By now we are all completely exhausted, and it is dark. We drive to a small house, and are served dinner, once again by Davids family. It again is wonderful, with homecooked rice, tortillas, soup, pico de gallo, and manzana. We met up with the white team here, and spent some time celebrating the events of the day. When we finally packed up and left, it was about 830. Now began our adventure home...
Mexico City is full of speed bumps, and for a very good reason. People drive at ridiculous speeds! But so does Mrs. Miller. And aparently the speed bumps do not apply to her. So everytime someone falls asleep, we will hit a speed bump, and they go flying off the seat and onto the floor or the poor soul packed in next to them. So on the drive home we counted our mishaps. We hit 63 speed bumps, and I think 62 of those were at full speed. She got the last one alright. We also ran into a road block of bubbles. Yes, bubbles. Like a huge wall, 10 feet tall, of soap suds. I cannot say I have ever seen 4 fully loaded vans drive through a wall of suds. But hey, theres a first for everything! Then, we had to pull over and wait for all of the vans after that. Unfortunetly, no one can count, so we sat in a nice neat line, all four vans, for about 20 minutes. That was really fun. Then, we ran into a drug bust. Police were swarming an area with huge guns strapped to their backs, and were shining flashlights everywhere. THEN, we almost hit a guy on a bike that looked just like Santa Clause. That was really close-no more Christmas! :( Mix all of that in with the usual Mexico crazy traffic, we are extremely grateful to be alive and back at our home away from home.
Once again, we thank you for your prayers. Tomorrow we head back out into the streets, hitting a subway station entry, parks, and universities. I cant imagine anything but good coming out of it. For "all things work together for those who love him." Pray that everyone will be healthy again, and we will all have strength. Everyone is starting to lag on energy to get us through the day. We miss you all, and look forward to the comments we get to read each night. Buenos noches! (Good night!)
-Beth (Love you Mom and Dad!)
We started the day by driving two hours out of Mexico City to a small town pronounced Chill. This is where David, our coordinator, grew up. We ate lunch in this really cute hut with a thatched roof on carved, wooden pinic tables. Davids family served us a wonderful homemade lunch with too many dishes to name. After lunch, we ran down the road a bit and explored a huge waterfall. It was a rainforest type atmosphere, damp and cool. That was very nice, because Im sure it got to 90 degrees in the sun! We all have the very nice red blush flaming across our noses and cheeks now. Needless to say, we took some gorgeous pictures and relaxed for a few minutes. The boys took this opportunity to see how close they could get to the waterfall without getting wet, or caught by the sponsors. This in itself was extremely entertaining.
We once again split up. Im so very sorry that I can only report of the Green Teams activities, but I do know the White Team is having a wonderful, and very similar experience. We went to a local park in this same small town. David said we were the first group to ever bring the Good News. We performed our dramas, sang songs, and put on a puppet show for the niños (That means children in Spanish.) Kelsi Bodine shared an inspiring testimony that moved everyone there. When we invited people to come up and recieve Christ, to our joy about 15 new brothers and sisters walked up to the front! We rejoiced and prayed with them for quite a while, as much as we could with our limited Spanish. Unfortunetly, we had to leave and move on to another place that God had prepared for us.
We continued on to a small, concrete church. Literally, it was completely concrete. The walls, the roof, the floors-everything! It was very open and airy, with no doors and large holes for windows. This group was mostly church people, we geared our presentation for towards encouraging them instead of the Gospel message. We sang some songs in English, then they sang for us in Spanish. A smile is a smile, no matter the language, right? Amos, Mallory, Kelsi, and Mrs. Miller shared a few words, and we performed our drama. Afterwards, we once again prayed with these believers. This is an amazing experience. In the USA, when thé pastor asks everyone to bow their heads and pray, everyone reverently bows their heads, and silently listens while the pastor prayers. I think it gave us all a shock when everyone started praying at once! So many voices lifted to God at the same time in different languages sounds incredible, even if you cant understand the words. We played with the niños for awhile, then told them all adios, and that we would be praying.
Whew! By now we are all completely exhausted, and it is dark. We drive to a small house, and are served dinner, once again by Davids family. It again is wonderful, with homecooked rice, tortillas, soup, pico de gallo, and manzana. We met up with the white team here, and spent some time celebrating the events of the day. When we finally packed up and left, it was about 830. Now began our adventure home...
Mexico City is full of speed bumps, and for a very good reason. People drive at ridiculous speeds! But so does Mrs. Miller. And aparently the speed bumps do not apply to her. So everytime someone falls asleep, we will hit a speed bump, and they go flying off the seat and onto the floor or the poor soul packed in next to them. So on the drive home we counted our mishaps. We hit 63 speed bumps, and I think 62 of those were at full speed. She got the last one alright. We also ran into a road block of bubbles. Yes, bubbles. Like a huge wall, 10 feet tall, of soap suds. I cannot say I have ever seen 4 fully loaded vans drive through a wall of suds. But hey, theres a first for everything! Then, we had to pull over and wait for all of the vans after that. Unfortunetly, no one can count, so we sat in a nice neat line, all four vans, for about 20 minutes. That was really fun. Then, we ran into a drug bust. Police were swarming an area with huge guns strapped to their backs, and were shining flashlights everywhere. THEN, we almost hit a guy on a bike that looked just like Santa Clause. That was really close-no more Christmas! :( Mix all of that in with the usual Mexico crazy traffic, we are extremely grateful to be alive and back at our home away from home.
Once again, we thank you for your prayers. Tomorrow we head back out into the streets, hitting a subway station entry, parks, and universities. I cant imagine anything but good coming out of it. For "all things work together for those who love him." Pray that everyone will be healthy again, and we will all have strength. Everyone is starting to lag on energy to get us through the day. We miss you all, and look forward to the comments we get to read each night. Buenos noches! (Good night!)
-Beth (Love you Mom and Dad!)
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