More thoughts on Mexico:
- Not all toilets have seats. In fact, I think the vast majority of them do not have seats. It's more of an option but not a necessity. I don't really understand why they don't just have squatty potties if they don't have a seat, but oh well.
- The towns of Buctzotz and Merida are pretty cool. Buctzotz is a traditional Mexican style town. People here call it a village but it's like a small town. Everyone knew that we were the foreigners in town. In the middle of town, there's a park that randomly has free wireless internet. A bunch of old taxi drivers just sit around there waiting for people to need a ride. The taxis are bicycles with carts attached to the front and they have 3 wheels and it costs about $.50 to take a ride.
- Merida is a city with Starbucks and Burger King and whatever else you need. It's a much wealthier city than even Cancun, at least where we live in Cancun. Rachel and I loved Merida because we got to stay at the pastor's mom's home. We had a room with AC, cable, & free wireless internet. We felt so spoiled. It was hard to leave that place. Plus, his mother was like our Mexican grandma.
- Sleeping in hammocks takes some getting used to. We slept in them in Buctzotz and it's really comfortable at the beginning, but the first night we struggled to stay asleep all night. Once we got used to them though, I really liked them. I think they're probably best for naps though.
- We didn't sleep outside in the hammocks. The houses here are set up for hammocks. There's random hooks in the walls and almost everyone sleeps in hammocks. We bought a really cool orange and green one. So now, I have one from Mexico and Rachel has one from Ecuador.
- I'm told I'm a good storyteller. We did a VBS in Buctzotz and I told a Bible story while the rest of the team acted it out.
- Rachel and I do not like children's music at all. The youth group there led the kids in some Spanish songs and all the music was on a CD. I never want to hear any of those songs ever again.
- Fresh fried fish is delicious. We stopped on our way from Buctzotz to Merida in a town called Santa Clara at the pastor's aunt's beach house. We hung out at the beach and some people put up their hammocks and slept close to the ocean. It was pretty cool. The beach was covered with shells so it was difficult to enjoy that part of the beach because it was hard to walk barefoot. The water was really warm and calm. A huge storm hit and Rachel and a couple of others stayed out in the water and enjoyed the rain. They decided to get out when they saw the lightning. Probably a good idea.
- We painted 2 houses purple. I thought it looked awesome.
- I got to speak again on the Father heart of God at a camp with about 150-200 people. I spoke at the orientation for the camp but I didn't know it was orientation. Afterwards, Carl got up and had an altar call and almost everyone came forward for prayer. I don't think most orientations have altar calls but it was pretty cool to see that kind of reaction.
- We were like movie stars at the camp at least for 1 night. That night we introduced ourselves and the youth were already energetic from worship. So everytime we introduced ourselves they would cheer wildly. Tyler and Seung Hwa got the biggest cheers of anyone. We got a pretty big cheer when Rachel said we were married. Tyler was loving every bit of it especially. In case you don't know, he's an 18 year old with blonde hair and blue eyes. The girls in Mexico were loving it. Afterwards, almost everyone got mobbed for pictures. It felt like the paparazzi was after us.
- While we drove, we saw several Mexican ranches, wild pink flamingos, and an absolutely ridiculous amount of butterflies.
- This week, we are preparing to do a children's camp here at VIDA on Thursday-Saturday. It will look similar to the VBS that we did. After that, next week is our final week here.
- For the final week, I don't know exactly what we'll do but we have a debrief week. Basically, our team will hang out together. We won't do a lot of ministry in the final week, but instead we'll do some fun stuff together as a team. Hopefully, I'll be able to update one more time before we leave Mexico.
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