Hiuxquilucan

I’m in Mexico City! I had a great last few days in Perth and in all enjoyed my time in Australia. I am excited for this next phase of the DTS! My flights from Perth to Mexico went extremely well. I even had a great time with my friends, Leigh Anne and Jason Medina and their two kids. We were able to go out to dinner and even go to Target to get a few supplies. It was nice to be back in the States for a bit and shop where it isn’t so expensive! I arrived in Mexico City at 4am on Sunday morning. I spent the first three days at a church near the airport with a few others while we waited for the rest of our school to get there. We took time to work through our jet lag, explored the area and tried a few different Mexican restaurants! We had a great time. Tuesday night all of us that got there early went to the airport to meet the rest of our school. We then all headed out to our respective regions. I am in a region of the city called Huixquilucan (sounds like Whiskey-Loo-Can). It is west of the downtown area and is in a pretty mountainous area of the city. It is really beautiful. We are living in a home with a family, Margarita and her son Brayan. Our first task as a ministry team is to read through the whole Bible in 72 hours straight. As I write this we are about half way. Yesterday we met a woman who lives downstairs named Conni. She was a great help to us and was very patient with us as we tried to communicate with her. I think she had fun with it! She took us to a local Walmart so that we could get some groceries and get cell phones for our team. Today Kayla (our staff leader), Alyssa (the person on our team who can speak the most Spanish) and I went to meet with a local pastor. As part of the first wave into the city we are trying to make connections with the local churches and get a feel for the area. It was a great meeting. He was able to give us names of 11 churches in the area. He also informed us that he knows no one who speaks English that could help us translate. We are praying that God leads us to someone that could help us out! Please keep that in your prayers for us. We have plans to do evangelism and teach some seminars and would have a hard time doing all that without an interpreter. We are blessed to have internet in our home as well! I will hopefully be able to update each week! Thanks so much for reading!! Adios!!