Week Six Highlights

       On Sunday Kent preached on being pilgrims and sojourns on earth using Psalm 84 as his primary text. I heard that it was a great sermon, unfortunately I missed it since I was teaching the ninos. This Sunday was also special in that we were celebrating a miraculous healing. A family member of one of the ladies that attends our church was diagnosed with cancer. The affected family members were not Christians but asked for prayer. The church here prayed faithfully and to the doctor's surprise he is completely better. The family traveled down from America to thank the church for their prayers. They also brought hot dogs and potatoes for French fries. It was an enjoyable Sunday.

    

    Week six was finals weeks for me so the whole week seems like a blur. We did the normal routine stuff in the morning, well I skipped one morning, then I locked myself away in my room to write an essay and research paper. Kent reports that the afternoons were business as usual.

     One big thing that happened, for me at least, that was out of the ordinary was I got a haircut. I decided after much thought that I prefer short hair, it’ll be easier to maintain to military regulations, and cold showers go much faster with short hair. So, my long hair is gone folks….

     On Wednesday, I preached about the love of God (the topic of my research paper). It was a nice service and I always enjoy an opportunity to apply what I’m learning to actual ministry.

     Sometime during this week Pastor Joel and Kent installed our sink and fixed the plumbing issue with the shower, so we have a fully functioning bathroom!

     On Friday, after an early start, I finished my research paper (essay was submitted Thursday) and sent it to dad, my amazing proofer, and was free for the afternoon. It happened that as I was finishing up I was told that the Ruben sr, Denia, and Ramses were going to Nogales to watch a movie at the theater and they had invited Kent and I. I was more than ready to get away from my room and happily jumped in the car, with the clear understanding that I needed to be home no later than six to go over my paper, after dad finished, and submit it before the nine o’clock deadline.

     True to Mexico fashion we were about an hour later leaving than originally planned. On our way to Nogales we happened to pass Pastor Joel and his family, their car had stopped running on their way to Nogales. We did not recognize them but somehow it was discovered that we were in the area so we went back to help. After some tinkering and adding of fluids, using a rolled-up piece of paper, the car started and everyone happily jumped in their cars. Unfortunately, the car only went about twenty feet before dying again. They needed to get to Nogales for their daughter’s graduation so everyone but Pastor Joel, piled into our car and off we went again.

     Between our delayed start and the detour, we had missed the movie time, but we missed it by so much that we had just enough time to grab lunch and catch the next showing. After the movie, we stopped at DQ and had ice cream. We arrived home at about 7:30, a little later than I had hoped but still enough time. The outing was a lot of fun, and was an amazing way to unwind “after” finals.

  

     Saturday was spent working on projects around the compound and then in the evening, everyone headed downtown to the plaza. There was live music, food, and lots of people.