Mary’s Adventure

3/20/2010

hola...buenos tardes....como estas...question mark. 
this key board is hilarious. i cant use caps or end sentances properly...so please bare with me. 
cienega grows on me every day i am here. i am getting to people have spoken in their univerisity, 20 class rooms....over 600 children. in several churches....and have made good friends with our hotel staff. i ma learning spainish...andrew is teaching me and every meal we have another lesson.....hes a slave driver...jk..love ya cous. rocio and i have had so many amazing bonding moments....grocery shopping, riding in the bc taxi...litterally off roading through some crazy roads....eating my first mango off a tree. discovering i like kids more than i thought i did. hahaha. 
she has an amazing heart and we already have become sisters...although she is my cousin now....so i guess that just means were really family. 
i never thought anything could compare to my time in south africa or thailand...but i have to say...preaching jesus christ to the university....i think has put it over the top. 
andrew is keeping me on my toes...spiritually...this is good for me and terrifying...i never know what hes going to ask me to do. i found out yesterday im preaching in a church tomorrow and last night 45 min before we were leaving that i was speaking to a church last night. 
the children here are incredible. i have meet so many that i have fallen in love with. andrew told me for some of them i am the first white woman they have ever seen. this has hit me with a responsability and a profoundly humbling honour. i could help but cry at their genuine love for me. one of the pastors here di, he put his infant son in my arms an spoke many children into my life before he had a huge laugh about it all......he is quite the charcter....hilarious. okokokok.  -Mary