Some of our peeps are down in Mexico for spring break.. here is how they are spending it!  So proud of these young women and their heart for God and people!  Way to go!!!

Hey Joe! Megan and I wanted to post a blog on the website! We went to visit Migueal and Carmena today and wanted to share our experience! Please post this on the website! Thank you!

Wow! What an amazing way to spend the day! When we came down, we told our parents that we needed to go and see the family! Today was that day! We left the house about 10:30 am and hit the dirt roads that led to the house of Miguel, Carmena, and their 7 children (the house that we built on the mission) When we arrived at the house no one was home except for Jorge and Angel. They told us that the rest of the family was somewhere. We had a hard time communicating but within 15 minutes Megan, Angel, Doug and I (Ginny) were in the truck and Angel was giving us directions to find the rest of the family. When we arrived we realized that he took us to the bus station, where Miguel was leaving to go to work. They immediately recognized Megan and I and came running with huge smiles! What a great welcome! We talked for a little bit and then Doug and Angel were back in the car to go get everyone else! Megan and I stayed at the bus station with the family. (Amazing how there is so much talk about the drug wars down here but Megan and I stayed with the family feeling completely safe!) When the rest of our clan came, Miguel was able to talk for about 5 minutes and then he had to leave to go to work. It was hard seeing the way the kids reacted when their dad had to leave. We almost started crying with them. We all piled back into the cars and went back to their house! We spent about 3 hours with them and told them we would be back on Thursday with Mikayla Cappello, one of the other girls that went on the mission with us. Carmena told us that she would make us all Carne Asada, Guacamole, and Tortillas for dinner. I asked her if she needed help paying for the ingredients knowing that my family would help and thinking that i could give her my 20 dollars for souviners to help buy the stuff to make dinner. She told us that we only needed to go and eat and we didn't need to help at all because it was her thanks for EVERYTHING! When we finally said goodbye, I told them that I would be back in 3 days and that we would bring a translater so that we could communicate better! It was overall an amazing day and a great way to spend a day of our vacation! Next time we come down, we will have to visit 2 families considering that we are going on the mission again in July! We drove away waving and blowing kisses! We knew that we would see each other again so there were no tears of sadness but a warm heart and a smile on our face!

 

Megan and Ginny