Pictures!

So here are some pictures of the house I'm so excited to live in!
Some pics of the sweet back yard, yes, there are orange trees, mango trees, banana trees, and another fruit tree that I've never heard of. It's going to be SWEET!





This is the view out the front of the house, its a hotel...a very nice hotel.


This is the house I'll be staying in, my room is upstairs :) I'm pumped!

This is the room, and bathroom!

And finally an old outhouse, that just looked picture worthy :)

I'm Back!

Well, I’m back here in the great country of Mexico! Its finally warm here now, it’s been in the 40s and 50s which with the humidity, concrete walls, and lack of heat in homes, is quite cold. You know its cold when you can see your breath inside your house.

So far, we’ve spent a lot of time meeting as a team going over things as a base, and generally getting on the same page about where we’re headed this year. I’m really excited about the coffee shop that we’re going to be opening in the middle of February. We’ve gone over supplies we need, and furniture and everything, and spent a lot of time praying about very specific details and what God would have us do with them. We’ve made a lot of progress, but there’s still a lot of work to do yet along with a ton of other things that are going on as well. A new couple has moved down here to be on staff, and they just got a house so we’ve been working on cleaning that and such. This brings me to another thing that really excites me.

I’ve been struggling with what to do about renting a room. The plan was for me to rent a room by myself, but I never felt a peace about it, it just didn’t sit right or something. Then Ricky and Traci (the new couple) were looking for a house and found one with an extra bedroom upstairs, and we were joking around about if they rented that one that that they could rent the room out to me. The people who owned the house weren’t quite sure if they wanted to rent yet, so things were kind of on hold. Meanwhile, they kept looking for a different house, and found a couple, but liked the first one the best, and were kind of holding out on it. Finally the owners decided they wanted to rent, and Ricky and Traci had a house. I was still not feeling good about getting a room on my own. I had found one that would work and it was a good price and such, but it still didn’t feel right. But God knew what I needed and Ricky and Traci ended up asking me if I wanted to rent the room upstairs from them. And all of a sudden this burden that I had been feeling about getting a room just lifted and I couldn’t believe how good it felt. It was awesome!

The last thing that I’m excited about (in the near future anyways) is more fun than anything. When I went through customs I was only given a 50 day visa, so I have to go to the border and spend a few days in the states. As of right now the whole team will be going up and spending a few days in McAllen, Texas kind of as a vacation, but also to get some supplies for the coffee shop and such. It should be a lot of fun!

So as for now, there’s quite a bit of little stuff that needs to be done, so the things I’ll be doing is:
Finishing up the walls I started at David and Leah’s
Helping Ricky and Traci get their house ready to get moved into and then move them into it.
Some work out at the base
And then finally, some stuff (idk what yet exactly) at the coffee shop to get it ready to open, and then helping to run it.

It’s all so exciting, I can’t wait to see what God does with all of the things that are coming up in the next weeks and months.