Live From La Joya

Oh the joy of being able to sit at my OWN desk with my OWN computer and type this! Yesterday I got internet and telephone in my house. And, only 2 and a half weeks had passed since I went to the internet/telephone company to contract it! That's fast for here!! (Mom, you'd love it here, MaxCom has phone, internet, cable, and they are adding cellphone service; all from the same provider, so you can just pay one bill!) So I now have a phone number that can be reached from outside of Mexico! Email me if you need it...

Every week I find myself busier and busier, but all stuff that I really enjoy. For example, here is my thursday today:
7:30 - wake up, get ready for the day
8:30 - leave home for my first stop of the day
9:00 - arrive at Galerias mall to meet Leslie (a friend from church) at Samborn's for breakfast
11:00 - arrive (one hour late, oops!) at Global to work
12:00 - Laura, Yesica, and Monse meet me at Global for our Purpose Driven Life study
3:00 - close Global for lunch, and go home
3:45 - arrive at home and eat lunch; rest, catch up on emails, finances, visa stuff, etc.
6:00 - go to Comercial Mexicana (like WalMart) to buy ping-pong balls for the cafe
7:30 - arrive at Global to finish plans for tonight's meeting
8:00 - university ministry Bible study
10:00 - clean up/close Global
10:30 - leave Global with the Hostes, Jenn, and Jean Paul, to take Jenn & JP home
11:00 - arrive at home, shower, devotions
12:00 - sleep!

Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday are my really busy days. For example, tomorrow I leave the house at 9:00, and don't get home at all until 11pm. But then there are days like Mondays, when I get up late, clean up my room, run some errands, nap, eat, and not do much else.

Anyhow, today was the first actual day that I did the Purpose Driven life study with Laura, Monse, and Yesica. It went well! Laura and Yesica are Christians, but for various reasons don't get to church very often. We decided to go through that book together. Last week, the week that we met to decide when/where to meet, and what the study would look like, the girls also brough Monserrath to join in. Monse is a Catholic, and knows quite a bit about the Bible. She is very interested in the Purpose Driven Life book. I am a bit confused with her though - she talks a lot about wanting to serve the Lord, and to have a RELATIONSHIP with Him (which I've NEVER heard a Mexican Catholic say before!), but at the same time, she was trying to teach us a song that she said comes from Jeremiah 1:5, (about how God knew us before we were born) and the song was talking about how MARY knew us before we were born! Ahhhhhh! It's an interesting situation.

So that's a tiny peek into my life today!!