d make good choices!!
Saturday, March 22, 2008
My Brother
On the 18th my brother decided to put on Christ in baptism!!! and I got to be there! Please pray for him to take his decision seriously an
d make good choices!!
d make good choices!!
Monday, March 10, 2008
Fun in Leon!
Hello everyone!!
Last Wednesday our coordinators surprised us and took us bowling as a team!! It was a lot of fun spending time with everyone doing something fun! We all had a good laugh sharpening up our bowling skills. (I hadn't bowled for over a year!) And recently a family from the church invited us girls over for dinner
and games! We played Chinese checkers afterward and it was a blast! (although I look kinda tired from the picture below!)
This morning Donovan and I met with a girl named, Montse. We are going to be studying English with her. She is 22 and works on the Leon Tour buses giving tours of Leon!
Things have been good here as I am filling up my schedule with more and more things. I am still studying with Lucy (our guys neighbor) and Elvira. It feels good to be busy!
The next two weeks will be pretty dead here in Leon as many people go on vacation during Semana Santa and Pascua (Holy Week and Easter Holiday). It is traditional to go to the beach with your family at this time. Lent also started here, which means people eat only fish on Fridays and maybe give up other things. Many restaurants close on Fridays altogether because their main foods are meat! example: taco stands.
It's still strange to me sometimes to live in a country so rooted on one religion. Almost everyone claims they are Catholic, and especially around the part of Mexico where I live. The population around Leon has the strongest percentage of Catholicism. Here it is strange if you are not Catholic.
A couple of weeks ago, when I was in Mexico City with the new class of AIMers, we all visited the Basilica. It is like the Vatican of Mexico. While I was in one of the temples, I saw a statue of Jesus. He was on a cross. His face was forever stuck in a grimace of pain and agony as blood flowed from his wounds. I noticed a Mexican girl standing next to me in the temple. She looked about my age and was crying. I don't know why she was crying or what exactly had impacted her, but I told her that Jesus is our King. I wish I had said more now, but at the moment I was kind of at a loss for words. I do know that that experience certainly had an impact on me. Many people in Mexico have this view of Jesus. Helpless, on the cross, and in pain. I am so glad that he is alive today and gives me strength!! He is my hope and my salvation! He is not helpless or in pain, but has conquered death and made a way for us to be a part of the Kingdom of God!
Besides all this, I am coming to the U. S. A.!! Tyler, Donovan, Ben, and I leave very early Thursday morning to go to Texas! I'm very excited to see my friends and family in person after 10 months! I will be staying a week and I hope to see you while I'm there!
Last Wednesday our coordinators surprised us and took us bowling as a team!! It was a lot of fun spending time with everyone doing something fun! We all had a good laugh sharpening up our bowling skills. (I hadn't bowled for over a year!) And recently a family from the church invited us girls over for dinner
and games! We played Chinese checkers afterward and it was a blast! (although I look kinda tired from the picture below!)
This morning Donovan and I met with a girl named, Montse. We are going to be studying English with her. She is 22 and works on the Leon Tour buses giving tours of Leon!
Things have been good here as I am filling up my schedule with more and more things. I am still studying with Lucy (our guys neighbor) and Elvira. It feels good to be busy!
The next two weeks will be pretty dead here in Leon as many people go on vacation during Semana Santa and Pascua (Holy Week and Easter Holiday). It is traditional to go to the beach with your family at this time. Lent also started here, which means people eat only fish on Fridays and maybe give up other things. Many restaurants close on Fridays altogether because their main foods are meat! example: taco stands.
It's still strange to me sometimes to live in a country so rooted on one religion. Almost everyone claims they are Catholic, and especially around the part of Mexico where I live. The population around Leon has the strongest percentage of Catholicism. Here it is strange if you are not Catholic.
A couple of weeks ago, when I was in Mexico City with the new class of AIMers, we all visited the Basilica. It is like the Vatican of Mexico. While I was in one of the temples, I saw a statue of Jesus. He was on a cross. His face was forever stuck in a grimace of pain and agony as blood flowed from his wounds. I noticed a Mexican girl standing next to me in the temple. She looked about my age and was crying. I don't know why she was crying or what exactly had impacted her, but I told her that Jesus is our King. I wish I had said more now, but at the moment I was kind of at a loss for words. I do know that that experience certainly had an impact on me. Many people in Mexico have this view of Jesus. Helpless, on the cross, and in pain. I am so glad that he is alive today and gives me strength!! He is my hope and my salvation! He is not helpless or in pain, but has conquered death and made a way for us to be a part of the Kingdom of God!
Besides all this, I am coming to the U. S. A.!! Tyler, Donovan, Ben, and I leave very early Thursday morning to go to Texas! I'm very excited to see my friends and family in person after 10 months! I will be staying a week and I hope to see you while I'm there!
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