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mexico missions

The weekend before school got out (which was a few weeks ago, which then implies that I'm bad at posting consistently thus my little "week" thing totally fell apart before my eyes...) we went to Mexico for a mission trip! It was at an orphanage about 45 minutes into the border.

Our hotel.

To breakfast...

Jeanette is making two things: her famous scrambled eggs, and the most wacked out face ever.

This little girl got adopted and her new family was going to pick her up that weekend. Neither of us could understand what the other was saying, but we still had some pretty intense conversations. She kept saying "a huego! a huego!" (to the playground! to the playground!) and for some reason I kept answering in Japanese...I dunno.

Mija was trying to jack the bandana that I needed to cover my greasy nap, but instead I gave her my praystrong bracelet. I got that thing in Japan, so it's special!

Pastor Hasan's house.

Tom was our translator, so he ordered all of our tacos. Go Tom!

The capstone of the trip...the five billion ounce Manzana Lift, every true Mexican's favorite drink.

It was a pretty tiring trip, and it helped me get a better understanding of what it means to serve beyond your bodily comfort, even though of all the people I probably served the least. Us girls did a look of cooking and tending to the niños while the guys took care of church construction. I can't believe the people at the orphanage are able to do what they do with so little help sometimes. They are pretty much incredible!

Labels: kids, mexico, mexifriend, missions, orphanage

chinese katherine's

The other day Jeanette and I were in the computer lab and we started talking to Chinese Katherine. She was telling us about how China's need for solid Bible teachers is surpassing even the need for Bibles.

She told us that in China people will sit in the same stuffy room in the heat of summer all day long just to hear the Word being taught. Here in America, us Bible students are already packed up and anxious to leave class before the teacher's done talking. That is so convicting.

Well, Katherine had some of us over for some Chinese tea. We just hung out, I shared some pics of India, fellowship. That girl definitely has the gift of hospitality. Really cool time.