sad

I´m leaving this friday for home. I´m excited that I get to see all of you guys again, but I´m sad for what I´m leaving. This is my last week as an intern and I ask that every one pray I finish the race strong and don´t just stop right before the finish line. What is really cool is that I´ll be back at the end of July as just another group working. It will be a different but great experience for me after being an intern for so long. This place has changed so much since last year and in the last 3 weeks I´ve been here. I can never get sick of the mountains for they are so beautiful. Thank you Lord for making them. We are surrounded by these mountains. I´m going to miss the mountains as I go back to flat Indiana. But before I get to sad I have to remember that this last week is just as important as the first. So also please pray that I can keep the vision in this last week. All of you back home are amazing and I can´t wait to see you.

Hello again

I thank you all for the prayers and support you are giving me this place is awesome. I´m really sad that I have to leave in a week from here, but I get to see all of you who I have missed, which is everyone back in the united states.I´m going to give you a quick update and then I´ll write more on sunday. This past week was pretty cool being able to go back to ERJ. I said bye to everyone there because I´ll see them in a year. Today was a great team building time for our interns. We went hiking and it was only 5 pesos to go. That is equal to around 50 cents. It was cool, walking up, and being able to go swimming under a small waterfall. I´ll talk to you guys later. Also Debbie Seese I have a message from my mom and that is please call her. Well I´ll talk to all you homies later.

107°F

Not trying to complain but I thought I would let you know what the temperature is like down here. Yesterday it got up to 107°F and today it is suppose to have the same forecast. Just walking outside I started to sweat. Today I get to go to ERJ. We are celebrating a 15th birthday for a girl it´s called a kingstonyehre (I probably spelled it wrong). Here in Mexico your 15th birthday is like the right of passage from child to adult. It is going to be of the hook. I´ll talk to you all later. I love all of you guys. Thanks for all the prayers.

¡Correction!
The top picture is Gerardo the middle is Carlos

Top pictures: Gerardo (left) and Carlos (right)

Bottom picture: Jesus (left) and Osvaldo (right)

God is amazing

I´m sorry I haven´t written in a long time but I´m still alive and doing amazing. God shows up here everyday; in the kids, the groups that come down here, and through nature. He is teaching me something new everyday. These kids down here are so happy with the little they have. I went to ERJ (one of the children´s homes). I met these two kids, Osvaldo and Jesus, the joy in their face is priceless. They take advantage of every moment in their life. Unlike me sometimes. Sometimes I just want to get through something instead of living through it. God uses every moment and it is usually the small moments, when he is least expected, that He tells you the most important stuff. The groups down here for the first week were Summit from Orlando, Florida and sacred heart from Ohio, I believe. I was able to be with Summit and they were all awesome people. We spent 3 days together at ERJ. Living in ERJ for 3 days showed me a lot. One of those things is how they all have a family realationship. Not blood but through Christ and they actually live that way. This past week was a very hectic but fun week. We had a group here out of Cincinatti, Ohio called the McCollum group. They had around 70 or 80 people come down. They would split up into 3 groups each day and work. Steve McCollum, the head of the group provides shirts and so many other things to the kids. He runs a soccer camp for all the kids. They all loved on the kids a lot. The group also does something that no other group does, and that is provide food for breakfast for Casa Hogar Douglas. They left every morning at 6:15 a.m. to go serve the kids breakfast. I went all but the first day. That experience for me will be engrained in my brain forever. These kids woke up every morning and were singing worship songs when we would arrive. They had the best smiles. Their smiles in the morning were so precious. They would look up at you with this beautiful grin of innocence and thankfullness on their face. During this time I got to know most of the Casa Hogar Douglas kids better. Two kids that stand out for me is Gerardo and Carlos two amazing kids. We have a new group coming tomorrow and then the next week starts. I´m having an awesome time down here. My cell phone doesn´t work here so I can´t receive text messages or phone calls. I want to wish all those dads reading my blog a Happy Father´s Day early. I thank all of those who supported me because this has been a very I opening experience.

I'm Here

I just wanted to let you guys all know I made it safe. I can only blog once or twice a week so I'll be detailed. The plane trip went great and I was able to meet all the interns. Today we got ready for our first church group which is coming saturday morning. This experience is going to be awesome and I know God is going to do great things. Oh, I found out one thing that those who have been down here before might care about. That is that Sam's club and many other stores have stopped carrying the lime lays chips. Everyone here is trying to look for a store to buy them from. This campus has chaged a lot since last year, but it is still so beautiful. The other interns are all cool. Another guy is from Indiana, Will, and I know his cousin. What a small world. I don't get cell phone service, so if you want to contact me leave a comment on the blog. Well I'll TTYL.

Stressed

I'm sorry I haven't been blogging in a long time it is just that I've been under a lot of stress. Since I'm leaving for Mexico at 5:00a.m. thursday morning I need to get all my finals and work done by then which is 9 days earlier than everyone else at my school. Well I have 3 finals today so I might need to get off. I have one in English, German, and Chemistry. Talk to you all later.

OASIS

Last night was Oasis and it went great even though Judy wasn't there, she was in Atlanta. Jeremy Post spoke about passion. He was speaking very passionatley also. Jeremy is a great speaker and he should definitly do it again. I was able to see my cool eagle's nest kids, AJ, Jordan, Buck, Jordan, and Garrett. These kids are 6th graders and they get who God is and how amazing he is. They love Christ and I can see it in them everyday. In the photo above it is justa picture of everyone but Buck he wasn't there when we took the picture. Everyone at Oasis is really cool and I learn so much from these kids even though they are younger than me.