Mexico

My trip to Mexico was amazing, once again. Altadena went with the Denver people. It was reminiscent of last year and surpassed my expectations. We worked on building the church. Lots of manual/physical labor. I am so sore from lifting buckets of cement, mortar, block and climbing up and down scaffolding. but that is what I love about it. I mean, when else would I ever be able to build a septic tank, i mean, really. God was definitely present, and I learned a lot about thankfulness in all things.
Here's some pictures.

Jim and I at the work site with some gnarly mud.




Michelle, Karla, Fede, Peter, Joey, Ben and Yaneli
on Sunday morning.


Karla and I. She is such a sweet girl with
a heart for the Lord. We grew a lot closer
to eachother this trip.



Fede and I. This boy is amazing. The sweetest
thing. he was really patient with me as I fumbled
with communicating in Spanish. ahhh, chiquita. :]

All in all, this trip only served to remind me how much I love the kids, work and ministry down there. Thank you all for your prayers. There were no major accidents and my worst mishap was falling down into the six foot septic tank hole. No biggy at all.

P.S. Just for clarification, I do know that "chiquita" does mean little girl. But it was a "sobre nombre" for Fede the whole week. and if it makes you feel any better, he did call me "chiquito" as well. ahhh the good times.

Title. [and registration]

I don't know where the registration came from, aside from the fact that its the title of a song. and that those two words just go together like Peanut butter and Jelly.
But aside from all of that...Here's just a few tidbits of learning and life...

In case the blogspot populous wasn't aware, I teach Sunday School at my little church here in California. The little church has an even littler sunday school. I teach three children. Caleb, Annie and Taryn. They are between ages 5 and 7. Tis a joy...one of those challenging, difficult and sometimes discouraging joys...you know what i mean? Their bright little minds pick up just about everything. There are times i wish my mind was so empty and could soak up information like a sponge. We are learning a song in spanish, right now, for our Christmas Program. The kids were enthralled that I knew Spanish. [Allow me to clarify that "knowing Spanish" to them is being able to speak more than six words.] Since they found out this privileged and exciting information, they ask me to teach them a new phrase ever week.

Por ejemplo:
"Yo te amo con todo mi corazon"
"Como estas? Muy Bien, gracias."
and our song, "Yo tengo gozo en mi corazon...donde?"

Anyways, it has been such fun watching them learn these things.

Speaking of spanish, I am going to Mexico in a few days. I cannot tell you how excited I am. I haven't seen those kids since June and I am ready to rekindle friendships and practice that stellar spanish. Just for some prayer requests:
-That the staff and kids can be prepared for another work team coming and that they can stay on schedule.
-That God can bless the work we are going to do...keep everyone safe
-Above all that His love can be shown and spread into the hearts and lives of these children and the staff at CVE...