Chillin’ in the Jung-skies
Get ready for a crash course on my view of this past week!!! So this was the first official week of Mission work and what a week it was!! We were driven an hour and a half outside of the main city of Palenque into a small village in the middle the jungle. The town is nestled in a valley amongst loads of steep hills and mountains, it’s gorgeous here (take a look at others blogs on my team to get pictures, I hope they post them…) Its called Aguilar and we are here with another team called Hupumone. We have a great place to stay, a guy named Alfredo gave up his entire house for us to stay in.
This paragraph is basically for my mom whose first question isn’t, “How’re you doing?� but rather, “How are you eating?�!! The church members bring us tortillas every morning and afternoon so we get like 150 of them a day. Just a quick prayer request before I go on, I am not getting enough carbs in my diet because between the potatoes, oatmeal, tortillas, bread and noodles I am lacking in this area, pray that I could find alternate sources of carbs to make up for my body’s insufficiency. OK, now that I got that out of the way we are actually eating not that bad, Talia is a great cook and meal planner and we have had anything from Cup-O-Noodle lunches, to an American night last night with the Pastor and a bunch of people from church, we had hot dogs and homemade Frenchfries. I feel like I’m eating a lot here, I am hungry almost all the time, again maybe that’s the carb lackage.
We are praying for a lot of people, surrounding some houses in prayer as well as praying for healing and openness of hearts. At the beginning, just to get a grasp on the situation we did a couple prayer walks around town in the mornings. Everyday at 5pm we have a kids service at the church where 30-40 kids come out every night. In the past I have felt awkward around kids but I love them, and they can’t get enough of me, I know that’s conceited but its true, I’m amazing. After the kids service we have an adult service that runs an hour or more. This is what tends to be difficult because the only translators we have are Talia and Annie, both of which are not fluent but can carry on somewhat of a conversation. This keeps things quite difficult but in other ways simple because we cannot preach much… but isn’t that what we are told in scripture, to preach Jesus Christ crucified? We are working on different ways to reveal that and trying creative ways to minister to these people and their children. A lot of people have said that the only other white people that have been to this town am through 3 years ago, so we get a lot of stares!
And now we get back to the city of Palenque once a week for our Sabbath, to then set out for another week here in the jungle. The people here are so friendly, it is a wonderful place to be.
Until next time,
Peace.
