Last year I had an amazing time in Mexico during the summer! I wrote a book on dramas (which is flying off the shelf in the current tour I hear), recorded a music CD with Bible verses put to familiar tunes, served at Dwight and Kristi's kids camp Campamento NAVE, helped at a "Sunday" School on Saturdays in Echojoa, taught a Sunday School class in Huatabampo, and went to a really sweet youth retreat.
God showed me some really cool things and totally changed my life on that trip, believe it or not. A couple of the big ones were realizing my own selfishness and pride, and realizing how important people are to Him. I never was actually called to missions full time, but now I see so much fruit in missions that I see myself in missions full time in the near future (sometime soon after school). That's my life change last summer in a nutshell.
I also made a trip to Mexico this last December with my parents. We applied for a Mexican voters card for me, the ID that everyone uses down there for everything, and it's currently waiting for me in Caborca, ready for me to pick it up. We'll need that ID for Dwight and Kristi to move down south, but because of school and funds we've decided to pick it up in the summer on the way to Dwight and Kristi's place.
On that trip in December, after we had started the paperwork and found that it wouldn't be ready until January, we decided to go visit Dwight and Kristi. We had a wonderful weekend with them, catching up and having a great time. On Monday and Tuesday we worked with them in the office and finished a few projects. Mom and Dad wrote an entire Christmas program for the childrens ministries in churches, available to the people during Dwight and Kristi's tour. Also, I finished the book on dramas and the music CD that I had started during the summer. (No, I didn't finish them in the summer) We were amazed at how much work God helped us finish in just two days. On Wednesday we drove back to the Caborca area, and on Thursday and Friday we took some of the Bible school students on an outreach to a town called San Filipe to hand out tracts. The people in the town are exited and a couple locals offered their houses as meeting places! The Bible school students caught some vision and got exited about the possibility of holding meetings in San Filipe! It was a great trip!
Recently Mom and Dad have been working on the house in El Diamante so they can stay there and do some more ministry. Dad made a trip just a week or two ago and while he was down there he went to a small town in the middle of nowhere. There were two men on a porch and when they saw him coming one of the men said "I know you! You're that guy with the God papers. Are you going to do a program?" Dad hasn't been to that town in 15 years. You can read more about Dad and Mom's recent trips soon in a newsletter that he's working on currently.
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