Hot Water

This past wednesday through saturday, I went to the city of Aguascalientes (literally means hot waters) for the annual church leaders' conference. It was a good time of fellowship with other leaders of Horizonte and of various other Horizonte churches in Mexico.

The only cost to the trip was travel to get there and back, which was a HUGE blessing! We got most of our meals free and 17 of us from QRO stayed together on the floor of a home that is for sale and has no furniture. It DID have water though for showers and toilet!!

Anyhow, we heard reports from the various churches represented, and also had a sermon series on 1 Thessalonians taught by some pastors that you may have even heard of, like Fermin IV, Jim Foote, Juan Domingo, and our own Martin Macedo from Horizonte QRO!

We also had the wonderful opportunity to spend all of friday afternoon (and WELL into the night!) and saturday morning in AGS downtown. This included - leaving a person behind on accident while he was in the bathroom, trying to smooth-talk a police officer out of giving JP a parking ticket while we couldn't even find JP OR his keys, getting the license plates taken off Martin's car (it's what they do in a parking infraction), walking like 6 miles in the hot sun, eating tacos that were a bit sketchy, and getting up again at 6am... It was a merorable experience!!

A bunch of QRO folks enjoying the conference:

A beautiful building in the cleanest city in all of Mexico (Queretaro is the 2nd cleanest!!)

Ruben, Rose, me, and JP enjoying ice cream in the AGS Centro:

Isamar with a "Jicaleta." This is a popsicle (paleta) of a giant piece of jicama (yes, the vegetable) rolled in chile powder!

A bunch of us enjoying a park in the Centro:

And another picture of a bunch of us...

Isamar and I doing a picture perfect imitation of the statue! :-)

At some rest stop between AGS and QRO on the way home: