Our Week in Review

We have had a rather busy week and a half. We have seen God work in neat ways as we are preparing for teams to come and asking God to send us nationals to partner with. We are excited about what is going on here in the city.

One fun thing of the week - We saw this guy driving down the road the other day and just had to take a picture. It is amazing where you can find pieces of home. Go Vols!

A neat project we were involved with last week is helping flood victims There has been a lot of flooding in parts of Mexico City in the past couple of weeks. Many families lost much of what they owned. Because of Southern Baptists gifts to Lottie Moon, we were able to do a great work in helping purchase some of basic life necessities for some of those who were touched by these floods. Thank you for giving to Lottie Moon and the Cooperative program!

Sunday, we had the priviledge of visiting with a church just outside of Mexico City where our home church, Brainerd Baptist is going to be bringing a team in October. It was such a fun service with lots of music and young ladies playing the tambourine and doing interpretive dance in praise to the Lord. We are so excited about how God is going to use this church and the team from Brainerd to affect this community.

Monday, we made a short little trip to the nearby city of Puebla. We were able to see some of the beautiful Spanish architecture, pottery, and the nearby ruins of one of the Aztec pyramids. It was a nice time to relax before we start being really busy in the next couple of weeks.

In other news, our apartment has been without water since Saturday. That's right, I said NO WATER since Saturday. Apparently a water pump broke down the street and they still have not been able to fix it yet. We have been taking showers and flushing our toilets with pitchers of bottled water. Here is a picture of my goofy husband standing outside in the rain to get some water to flush the toilet. I was complaining of our plight today when Travis reminded me of a home he went to visit just a couple of weeks ago. The family in the home has NO running water. They always take showers from buckets of water and flush their toilets with pitchers of water. We are just experiencing for a few days what they live with in daily life. We are praising the Lord that this is not the norm for us - it was a blessing that Travis was allowed to be a guest in the other families home to help humble us in this experience.

Here are just a few highlights from our week - we hope yours is going well and appreciate so much the prayers.

Until later - Hasta luego!