Ok, I finally posted my pictures from the NPCC team that was here earlier this month. However, it's a lot easier to post them on FaceBook and not on this blog, so here is the link if you'd like to see the transformation of our children's environments at Horizonte, made possible by 14 wonderful folks from Atlanta! Click HERE!
The team came to help with decoration of our children's ministry areas, as well as do a training session and an example Sunday School class for our teachers, and to throw a thank you party for those who volunteer in Sunday School at Horizonte.
Monday, June 18, 2007
Monday, June 11, 2007
No Manches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No manches = you've got to be kidding me
In Mexican spanish.
Ok, I'm probably the only one who really cares much about soccer, but I HAVE to write about this! Yesterday was the dreaded day in soccer that I knew would come to pass at some point in time... The Gold Cup soccer tournament (North and Central America and the Carribean) is happening now, and Mexico and Honduras played each other. Now, I've been "Honduran at heart" for years before moving to Mexico, but I LIVE in Mexico, so this was hard for me. However, if you ask who my favorite soccer players are, you'll definitely hear "Rafa Marquez, Oswaldo Sanchez, Omar Bravo, El Bofo, Ramon Morales" and a few others, all of whom are from Mexico. (Although if you wanted a really thorough list of my favorites, Tyson Nuñez and Wilson Palacios would appear in that list, and they are Hondurans).
So, Honduras doesn't have a world-renown soccer team. In fact, they've never been to a World Cup. It was kind of obvious that Mexico would win this game, but I still love my catrachos (Hondurans) and really wanted them to win. I didn't get to watch the game, and when I got to my house, I checked ESPN.com to see by how many points Mexico won. Front page of ESPN in spanish showed Hugo Sanchez (the Mexican coach) with an angry look on his face, and a game score of 1-2. I was in shock, it COULDN'T have been 1-2 and Honduras won... But it WAS!!!!! And, best of all, my LEAST favorite soccer player, Cuautemoc Blanco (I dont like him because he plays on my least favorite mexican team, and always bad-mouths the Chivas, and is a big show-off) was kicked out of the game!! Anyhow, I know Mexico will be in the next World Cup, which is a way bigger deal than the Gold Cup, and will hopefully do well, and Honduras never makes it far in soccer, so I'd just like to say that I'm proud of the Catracho soccer team, and proud to still be catracha at heart! I'll probably be living in Mexico the rest of my life, so I have plenty of time to root for them. Felicidades Catrachitos!!
Useful Missionary Skills - Part Two
Mom Skills
Ok, for those of you who just spit your Diet Coke out through your nose when you laughed after reading the words "mom skills" in my blog, let me explain...
This week I've had to be a mom to many people. Thankfully, these people all happen to be over the age of 20 (not quite ready for the little folks yet!!) As mentioned in my previous blog entry, we received two new interns a week ago, and also had 14 people from NPCC here this past week. I knew that this week would be in no way a normal week, but I was a little surprised (in a good way though!) at how it turned out!
Let me sum up the whole "mom" thing for you:
Wednesday night, I was walking around the Centro with some other gringos, enjoying the night and enjoying actually being with english speakers that are my age. My phone rang, and I saw that it was Helena (an intern who's been with us for 4 months now), so I figured I should answer it. It was actually Marly on the phone (a new intern) telling me that she was sick. I asked her the basic "stomach sickness" questions that I always ask, not even thinking about the fact that I had 5 other young adults with me who are not accostomed to stomach sicknesses. I had to walk away from them when they started dying of laughter from hearing my end of the conversation, so Marly wouldn't hear them laugh. Then Elise, the other new intern, got on the phone and told me that the couple that she is living with had left in the middle of the night before to go to Mexico City because Lucero's (the wife of the family) dad was dying. Elise didn't know if she should stay at the house, or find another place to stay or what. And quite frankly, neither did I.
I continued through the next day contacting Elise's Mexican family by phone to see what was up, and with Marly to see how she was doing, and that afternoon, Wyndi, a girl from NPCC got sick. I am getting rather good at knowing symptoms of minor stomach illnesses, so we went to the pharmacy and got the appropriate medicines. That night, Lindsey also became sick. I went home, and immediately contacted Marly to see if she was feeling better, and I felt bad for not having gone to visit her during the day. Elise was getting desperate about getting a new place to stay, and I still had no answer for her, so I set up a time to meet with her Friday morning. As soon as I hung up with Elise, the phone rang AGAIN, and it was my friend Ana crying, saying that she really needed to talk with me. So we set up a time to meet Friday, before the meeting with Elise.
I woke up on friday morning feeling rather sick to my stomach, but when you are playing mom to all these people, you just can't be sick yourself. So I met with Ana and we talked, cried, and prayed for a good two hours. I showed up late to meet with Elise, but we got things a little more worked out with her situation. By this time, half the NPCC team was sick, and I wasn't feeling any better myself.
Needless to say, it was a long week, and I'm thankful that I never will actually be a mom all of a sudden to 5 ladies between 20 and 29 years old (I'm only 26!!). All but 4 of the Atlanta team got sick before they left on monday morning, Marly is still sick, and Elise's mexican family has returned - the dad is still alive, but in intensive care, and I checked myself in to see Dr. Jessica at the "Self-Medication Clinic" (in other words, I've not gone to the doctor, just bought what I know I need at the pharmacy).
I wonder if this is somewhat close to what it's like to be a mom - trying to take care of several people while you are not feeling well and are not getting any sleep either. By the way, I really hope this whole story doesn't come across as whiney sounding. I really enjoy having the team here working at the church (more to come on the NPCC team, with PICTURES!) and God has really pulled me though by giving me just enough strength for what I'll need in any given day!
Anyhow, I'm off to take my meds, and get a few hours of sleep before taking Marly to see another doctor...
Ok, for those of you who just spit your Diet Coke out through your nose when you laughed after reading the words "mom skills" in my blog, let me explain...
This week I've had to be a mom to many people. Thankfully, these people all happen to be over the age of 20 (not quite ready for the little folks yet!!) As mentioned in my previous blog entry, we received two new interns a week ago, and also had 14 people from NPCC here this past week. I knew that this week would be in no way a normal week, but I was a little surprised (in a good way though!) at how it turned out!
Let me sum up the whole "mom" thing for you:
Wednesday night, I was walking around the Centro with some other gringos, enjoying the night and enjoying actually being with english speakers that are my age. My phone rang, and I saw that it was Helena (an intern who's been with us for 4 months now), so I figured I should answer it. It was actually Marly on the phone (a new intern) telling me that she was sick. I asked her the basic "stomach sickness" questions that I always ask, not even thinking about the fact that I had 5 other young adults with me who are not accostomed to stomach sicknesses. I had to walk away from them when they started dying of laughter from hearing my end of the conversation, so Marly wouldn't hear them laugh. Then Elise, the other new intern, got on the phone and told me that the couple that she is living with had left in the middle of the night before to go to Mexico City because Lucero's (the wife of the family) dad was dying. Elise didn't know if she should stay at the house, or find another place to stay or what. And quite frankly, neither did I.
I continued through the next day contacting Elise's Mexican family by phone to see what was up, and with Marly to see how she was doing, and that afternoon, Wyndi, a girl from NPCC got sick. I am getting rather good at knowing symptoms of minor stomach illnesses, so we went to the pharmacy and got the appropriate medicines. That night, Lindsey also became sick. I went home, and immediately contacted Marly to see if she was feeling better, and I felt bad for not having gone to visit her during the day. Elise was getting desperate about getting a new place to stay, and I still had no answer for her, so I set up a time to meet with her Friday morning. As soon as I hung up with Elise, the phone rang AGAIN, and it was my friend Ana crying, saying that she really needed to talk with me. So we set up a time to meet Friday, before the meeting with Elise.
I woke up on friday morning feeling rather sick to my stomach, but when you are playing mom to all these people, you just can't be sick yourself. So I met with Ana and we talked, cried, and prayed for a good two hours. I showed up late to meet with Elise, but we got things a little more worked out with her situation. By this time, half the NPCC team was sick, and I wasn't feeling any better myself.
Needless to say, it was a long week, and I'm thankful that I never will actually be a mom all of a sudden to 5 ladies between 20 and 29 years old (I'm only 26!!). All but 4 of the Atlanta team got sick before they left on monday morning, Marly is still sick, and Elise's mexican family has returned - the dad is still alive, but in intensive care, and I checked myself in to see Dr. Jessica at the "Self-Medication Clinic" (in other words, I've not gone to the doctor, just bought what I know I need at the pharmacy).
I wonder if this is somewhat close to what it's like to be a mom - trying to take care of several people while you are not feeling well and are not getting any sleep either. By the way, I really hope this whole story doesn't come across as whiney sounding. I really enjoy having the team here working at the church (more to come on the NPCC team, with PICTURES!) and God has really pulled me though by giving me just enough strength for what I'll need in any given day!
Anyhow, I'm off to take my meds, and get a few hours of sleep before taking Marly to see another doctor...
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Still Here...
Hey, I haven't dropped off the face of the earth or anything, I've just been real busy, all is well, and there's lots of stuff going on so I'll write a good blog as soon as possible...
Extremely brief summary of the past couple weeks:
Extremely brief summary of the past couple weeks:
- New construction happening at Iglesia Horizonte - building a new nursery and childrens' area.
- Two new interns came for two months, one from Minnesota and one from Iowa.
- An NPCC short term team came in last night to help with the contruction projects and work more on childrens' curriculum with the sunday school directors.
Pictures of all this, plus a better update, coming hopefully later this week!!
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