We Have Returned!!

Well language school in Guadalajara was good and learned so much, but it is even better to be back in General Cepeda!  We went to Mexico City for a few days to meet up with the rest of the team and have a 3 day retreat near the basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe.  God has blessed us so much!  The time there was extremely fruitful and will really help our team jump into ministry.

I owe and apology for not updating our blog for so long!  Stay tuned!

We took a day of rest after the long day of traveling back from Mexico City and Eliza and Dad decided to make a cool TeePee tent to play in.  Eliza Loves it!

We arrived by bus in General Cepeda on Thursday night and have noticed that everything is starting to turn green here!  I know its not super green, but hey, its the desert.... :-)

Just before we left for language school Father had several meetings with us to lay out how he would like to see the year go.  He assigned us as well as other people from the parish different ejidos to minister to and teach the faith.  We visited the first two of our five ejidos last night.  It was a good time to go around meet the people we will be ministering to. We were also able to handle out several blankets and a couple bags of clothing for the people there.  

 The first group that came here bought a cross for a chapel in Mogote (the first ejido)

The family that was here last year put up a chapel in this ejido. (I was fortunate enough to help on this project!)

 Eliza likes visiting ejidos!

Everyone Loves Lucy!

 

I wanted to post a few photos of what an ejido looks like so here is a taste of Mexico!

 

 This particular Ejido grows mesquite trees.  I'm not sure exactly why, but they use it for burning a lot and possibly their animals will eat the leaves.

 The second Ejido we visited last night has an abandoned church.  Not sure how old it was, but I think it must have been pretty cool before it fell in!