bus trouble…

A couple weeks ago we were all piled into the bus ready to go to church in Juarez and the bus wouldn’t start.  One of the kids had been playing in there and turned several things on and drained the battery.  I am not sure exactly what they did, but they eventually got the bus going and

adventures in Juarez

A few weeks ago the interns and I went to Juarez after chuch to visit the market and have lunch.  The night before Anthony and I asked Teo for directions and after 30 minutes we walked away with a two page hand drawn map, a mexican cell phone and 30 minutes of verbal directions from both Teo and Lety.  Well, we missed the first main turn and ended up

al berca†

The girls have been begging us to take them to the pool this summer and so we got a date arranged with Dean and started making plans.  We were going to be gone all day, so I had to take lunch also.  I started asking what we should bring…thinking burritos or sandwiches or something and ended up cooking tacos and rice.  I stayed up till almost 11 the night before cooking it all up and then we had to take charcoal and pots to cook it over the BBQ.  It was a lot of work, but the food was good and I think I won extra points for doing things the Mexican way.  Lety told me I cook good enough to marry a Mexican guy.

So we had a great day playing in the water, eating lots of food and getting sun burned…especially Sarah and I…the only white girls at the pool.  But I learned my lesson and will be much more diligent in the future with the sun screen.
I didn’t take any pictures…but here are the ones from Sarah’s camera.

HG Picnic

My home group here had a picnic one night to celebrate several of the men’s birthdays for that month.  It was a themed picnic and all the food and drinks were favorite recipies from past presidents. We had quotes of things they had said and then also this game to see who knew the most about the birthday boys…I was kind of handicapped in that game considering I didn’t know most of them at all…but I asked lots of questions and actually got third place.

Here are a few pictures from that night…my camera died so yes, there are only four.

water day

Ok, so this is a little out of order.  The church from Gilbert, AZ had a water play day on their last day here.  They turned the school yard into a water park, complete with a water slide and everything.  They also brought in pizza for lunch which made me very happy. I have found that one of the foods I crave the most here is pizza…  So anyways, it was lots of fun and I took lots of pictures. I hope you enjoy them.

graduation

It has been a crazy summer and I am way behind on blogging.  It makes me laught thought because I have been following one of the interns blogs and she post almost every day all the little things the kids did and said and all our little adventures and “mis”adventures. I am hoping to do better, but I always say that and well…here I am again with piles of pictures and more stories than I will ever get online. So for now,  I have decided I will just start with the oldest pictures and adventures work my way forward.  I am hoping to be caught up by the end of next week…we will see how that goes.