MEXICO CITY, DF - OCTOBER 2008 - THE BLESSINGS OF GOD

FINALLY

  , Please Forgive Me For The Delay ,

There is no good reason that it has taken me so long to get this slideshow posted.  I've just bee doing other things.  I tend to make things bigger in my mind and so put them off : ).  But here are some of the slideshows of the fantastic trip the Lord gave me October 1-15, 2008.  It definitely was from God as the ticket was through a mission scholarship from JIPC, birthday money from friends and family, and donations for the children from Rev. Emily Shelton, Nicole, Mrs. Simmons and Michelle from Muddy Waters.  The Lord provided in ways I never expected and was thrilled to be able to lavish a little love on the children at the Salvation Army Children's Home in Mexico City DF, Mexico. Andrea is the name cut off in one of the photos: ( in the first slideshow.  I had to break them up into several slideshows because I took so many photos :)!  So just be patient in letting them upload and they will eventually. It normally, takes less than a minute.  CORRECTIONS : ).  Some of these I knew and others I didn't.  I knew Saira's name was wrong but only corrected it on the DVD and forgot to before posting the slideshows. In one place I put Bryan's name where it should be Edwin with Salvador getting their prizes,  I spelled Judith's name without the h, and Jaime is Yamile - that one I never could get right : ).  I knew these three were sisters and their cousin is Uriel, but did not know the spelling of Enid (I always spelled it Anid),and Aranzazu (don't know how I could get that wrong!).  Their little sister, Itzel, is on a video on the DVD. And finally, I think, Bucho is Vocho because their V's sound like B's quite often.  Thanks to my friend Eva for helping me out there.  

This was my favorite part - 

Teaching Bible Classes In The Evenings

We could only have a certain age group as 80 children of ages 5-16 would be too much for just me.  So there were about 30 children and it was such a wonderful BLESSING!  They did so well in memorizing the verses, learning the songs and answering review questions from the Bible lessons.

PARTY TIME

It is so rare to have Pizza and is a HUGE treat for all.  So for those who had to stay the entire weekend we had a Pizza and Ice Cream Party.  It was so successful that I decided to have one for the last night I was there with ALL of the children and staff on duty.  It was great to be able to do this.  But the gift that I was most thankful to be able to give were the new clothes for Daniel.  He is without parents and was taken off the streets of Mexico City.  Correction Saira's name is spelled in correctly in this slideshow though correctly on the DVD. 

The Last One

It is difficult not to want to tell the story behind each of these photos, but at least they are posted now : )! Two things that seemed to change the most this time in comparison to years ago - LETTUCE was in the restaurants : ) and the beautiful parks.