The First few days

I’m in Mexico!! My trip down was good but long, I was travelling for about 22 hours total including bus and taxi rides. Communication with non-english speaking people was kind of hard, but I realized it is something that God has been preparing me for in the last few months with communicating with my sister Brihan.

I am staying with a really awesome couple down here named Dan and Wendy, and life down here is great. There are a lot of things that I’m going to have to get used to, but I’m trusting that God will help me get through it all. I’ve already met quite a few people here, and so far including Dan and Wendy only like five people speak English, but I can usually understand about 60 percent of what all is being said if I really concentrate on the conversation. I never realized how much work it takes just to comprehend Spanish conversations. I’m kind of hesitant to speak Spanish right now, just because it would be very broken, but I need to get over that. :)

Dan and I spent about a day and a half taking out an old mango tree stump (which is super hard wood by the way), fixed a pipe (that I accidently broke), and planted a new tree in place of the old one. The food here is so far amazing! We went out for tacos the night I got here, and Wendy is an amazing cook.

I’m amazed at how everything looks, from the buildings, to the trees to the plants, and even just the way the downtown is set up. The night life here is cool, most restaurants don’t open until like 7 or 8 at night, and then they’re open til like 3 in the morning.

It’s a very lively place and fun to be, but kind of overwhelming at first. Tonight we went to a birthday party for one of the local pastors, and it was crazy. The music was as loud as it could be and there was a ton going on. One thing that was really cool was that they sang the songs hosanna, and sing sing sing, so I could sing along in english. I guess I wasn't expecting to recognize any worship songs so knowing what was being sung was really exciting.

The more time I spend in this city, I'm amazed at the ways God is showing up here. He is really moving in a lot of the people, and the YWAM staff here are absolutely amazing. Well, I think I'm going to head to bed now, I hope to write again soon!