Coming up: This week begins the craziness of summer. We are really looking forward to it, but it is going to be a lot of work. Sunday we go on a retreat with the missionary kids. We will be teaching SHAPE, how God has shaped us for His service. Then on Friday, we begin a youth ministry conference in Cuautla, where we will teach basic principles of youth ministry. It will be great, too. Then, we are preparing for a group that’s coming in the first two weeks of July. Please pray for us during this time. We will be sending an email update soon, we hope.
What a weekend: We went to a water park on Friday with the missionary kids, and we got burnt. After driving almost 3 hours, we stayed all day. It was really fun. Maybe the best waterpark we’ve ever been to. Needless to say, we spent Saturday recovering. Sunday was a busy day, too. We went to the 19th anniversary of the church Dios Es Amor. It was a great celebration with more than 450 people there to celebrate all that God has done in the life of that church. Tonight, we have a meeting in a city 2 hours away with a group of pastors to talk about youth ministry. We are looking forward to it.
We found Outback Steakhouse! For those of you who know Janell, you know that Outback is her favorite restaurant. So, after a great church service on Sunday, we went on an adventure to find it. It was easy to find and easy to get back, which is almost better than knowing that there is one here. The food was great, and we had a good time. God really knows how to take care of us.
Crazy things have been happening here lately. Saturday was the seminary graduation. We arrived early (our first mistake), which meant that the church service was still going on and there were no parking spots. So, we decided to park our car on the road with the hundreds of other people (our second mistake). The graduation went fine, and we came back to our car to find that someone had stolen our side view mirrors. So, today we are paying about $90 to fix our mirrors. Oh the joys!
Sunday we were going to a church to spend the day there. We only had a hand drawn map to guide us there. There was a roadblock, so we had to turn off the main road we usually use. We then thought we took a wrong turn. Sitting at a red light, we decided to turn off onto a side road to look at our big map and figure out what we needed to do. After looking down for a few minutes, we looked up and noticed we were sitting right in front of the church we were going to. To find a place that easy in Mexico City is definitely a miracle. And we did it without mirrors!
Amigos: Mary and Richard Kalil spent the week with us this past week. It was great to have them here. They are our friends from Florida, for those of you who don’t know them. We went to the pyramids, downtown, and the zoo. They got to visit the seminary and meet a lot of friends that we have made here in Mexico. We had a wonderful time, and now we have to go back to “real” work.
