Mexico Update

Sorry about the lack of updates, I’m going
to try to be better about them the last 7 weeks of the race! (Thats right, just
7 more weeks until this incredible incredible chapter closes and the next
begins.)

We are staying in Palenque,Mexico at a
Bible institute with our contact Eliezar. He is a great man who used to live in
the States, but moved back to Mexico to open the Bible school. It is really
hot, and we have invented the fan-tent to help with heat and bugs!

 

We are also
with Banah, another team for this month,
which has been a ton of fun. Between Clay and Banah we have 9 old
teammates together, which is great. I’m loving to see Mark again everyday and
it is great to see all of Alethia together again.

 

So what have we done since I last wrote
that we were heading to Mexico and knew very little about what we were
doing….

• Took a 17 hour van ride from
  Antigua, Guatemala to Palenque, Mexico- carsickness, windy roads, no AC…fun
  day.
• Helped to lead a church
  service, including a drama, a testimony fromyours truly, and songs
  Visited a prison to do a
  service- PSTD (preaching. songs. teaching. drime/drama.)
• Went to a rehab center for
  alcoholics, did the same thing.
• Spent a day video chatting with
  my wonderful friends on Megans wedding day. (Congratulations again Megan and
  Matt, so sorry I couldn’t be there to celebrate alongside you!)
• Visited a village with our
  housing contact, Eliezar, and did a short children’s song program.
• Went to Misol-Ha waterfall,
  where an Arnold Swartzaneggar film was shot
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• went cave swimming
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• swam under a 90 foot fall
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• had a great time in the Mexican
  jungle
• Celebrated Tomina and Mel’s
  birthdays!
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• Made a pinata (we’re in
  Mexico!!)
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• Went to Agua Azul-
  AMAZING waterfalls with
  beautiful blue pools everywhere
  

• jumped off a 12 foot fall! 
• Long ride
  there…. more carsickness…
• Ate a delicious mango cut into
  a flower
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• went out to dinner
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• went to the park to see the
  live music and dancing
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• met some of the Mayan women
  we’ll be ministering to who weave crafts and sell them
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• Came back to the Bible
  Institute campus
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• Beat the pinata to
  smithereens:)

•  Helped the man who runs the
  Bible Institute we are staying at with some yard work
• Wrote this blog 😉