pictures...

Making cookies over the stove!
TORTiLLAS!!!  A lot harder to make than it sounds...

A baby that has touched my heart.  She doesn't have a name yet and she's two months old.
Grandma ~ Mother ~ Daughter ~ the women of the family that I stayed with.
This is the sister of the baby.  Sherly and she's two.

My mission trip to the Mountains

 She piearced my ear one night!
I just wanted to upload a couple pics of my amazing trip to the mountains of southern Mexico.........but my internet connection just got super low and decided not to upload photos so I'll try again later with that....

The trip was amazing and I feel like I've found a whole new world!  I'm just waiting now for God to take me back there to be with the people and the kids and the churches..

Exciting Adventure!

I've been invited to spend some time is a village with my friend Lupe.  It's a Mixteco village called Don Luis and I'll be staying there for about ten days.  While there, I hope to learn a lot more about the Mixteco culture.  There might be opportunity to learn how to sew on a loom and make tortillas!  I'm really excited but there won't be any internet access there.  So I promise if I haven't responded to any of your emails for two weeks or so, it doesn't mean anything bad has happeed.  I just means I'm having a wonderful opportuity to learn more Spanish and gain insight into a native culture!

Please pray for smooth traveling.

MUCH LOVE TO ALL OF YOU!!!

The Great Circle of....Love!

Cool thing I learned the other day:  We were in a church in a big town called Pinotepa Nacional doing a medical outreach with a group from Kansas.  One of the guys wanted a Coke and I volunteered to go get it for him because I was in the mood to get out and walk a bit.  It turns out that the store was actually in the church so I didn't have to walk anywhere!  So I used the ten pesos that he'd given me to buy his Coke and gave it to him thinking that that was the end of my big adventure for the day.  A few minutes later, the lady from the store came over to me and gave me the ten pesos back telling me that the pastor had paid for it so I got my money back!  I gave it to the guy that originally got the Coke and again thought that that was the end.  But then, a lady who has some serious health issues was eyeing some of the cookies from the store before she went into the bathroom.  While she was in there, I quick dashed over to the guy with the Coke and asked if I could borrow that ten pesos.  To which he replied that I could keep it!  I went and bought the two types of cookies that they had and there was still some money left over so I let the lady keep it to go on and bless others.  Then when I gave the cookies to the lady she smiled and shared with all of us!  While I was thinking about this later on, I noticed how that first ten pesos given with love by the pastor blossomed into a huge circle of blessings within our group.  In terms of the Lion King:  The Great Circle of Love!

(Before all you Disney lovers get on me about that....I know that it is really The Great Circle of Life but I thought Love sounded better.  =P)

Just a few pictures that I was able to upload.  Hopefully more later!

  Oh the joys of papaya!
 These are kids from a Mixteco village, Atoyac.

Hey guys!

Sorry, I know it´s been a loooong time since I posted but life has been WAY busy! But this is just to let you know that I´m not dead or crazy yet! So all in all life is good! Currently I´m syked about what God is doing with my future plans and hopefully will be able to post again soon!

Much MUCH LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVEEEEE!!!
Katy

FINALLY! Time to post! This is what's been going on....



We just got back from El Mosco which is in the mountains. (Indecently, el mosco means the mosquito and I counted 43 bites just now! lol) El Mosco was amazing. Our group got to work with the kids for most of the time and we really had a fabulous time. We did coloring and jump rope for the most part. The kids would run around and want up to write our names on their papers. I felt like a celebrity signing autographs!


For the guys who went on the trip last year – and the girls too – I thought you all would like to know how Mateo is doing. His mom is a Christian and his older brother, Mario, is working at Roca Blanca now. Mateo’s a beast at jump rope and keep away! While we were signing our names on their papers, he got a hold of my pen and wrote his name on my arm. We all thought it was really cute until we found out that that was saying that he liked me a lot and the fact that I kept it there meant I liked him too (not a brother in Christ type way). Everyone had a good laugh over that one! The joke now is that I almost got married to Mateo! Beyond that, he’s doing well! He’s going to school and his parents enforce his attendance! It will be exciting to watch him grow throughout my visits to the mountains.


Another happy tidbit of information from the mountains, we went to a village called Pueblo Viejo. I’m sure that many of the LCS group that went last year will remember the drunk guy that I had the pleasure of talking to for an extended period of time. Well, I had the privilege of seeing him again on this last trip. He was wearing a Christian shirt from Roca Blanca and helping out around the church we were at. It was sooo exciting! I don’t know if he’s a Christian or not but I was glad to see him at least heading in the right direction!

One of the most memorable experiences from this last trip was a lady named Catalina. She had no use of her legs and had to drag herself every where she went. She came for medical help at Pueblo Viejo and after, she had almost a mile to get home. Eddie and I took her home. We put her in a plastic lawn chair and carried her when the road stopped. The path to her house went over a creek that had stepping stones overit and then up and extremely steep hill. Her house was on top of the hill. It was tough carrying her and climbing up the hill. Then I thought about how much harder it must be for her to get around. It was a sobering thought.


Right now I’m enjoying some down time on top of the guest house. My team just finished cleaning the Bodaga, or storage room at the medical clinic. Hopefully soon, I’ll be able to post some pictures of all that’s been going on!