New Happenings...

Yesterday seemed like a lost day. Mostly because we spent most of it that way...lost. I found out that I'm lost in spanish is "estoy perdido". that is a helpful phrase to know! We got lost going in several different directions, we got lost at different times of the day and we got lost, even at night. On a positive note, we got to know the city a bit better!

We went to church at 11:00am only to find out that the church was at a retreat in Tecate and would be meeting at 6:00pm. So we filled our day with various and sundry activities (like getting lost...) and came back to Rancho Yugo to make a call to confirm church starting time for that evening. We found out that there was no church, so we drove off and got lost again! After finding food ( and getting lost once more) we finally made it to our villa overlooking the ocean. And lost the key to the chain that locks our gate.

We looked high and low, then low and high... then in the camper, and in the van and in the dirt and in the bushes... to no avail. Our Key is more lost than we were last night.

So we looked left- then right and thought we ought to search for an open gate somehwere on this huge tract of hilly land (that incidentally is covered with cows- they come right up to our camper and eat around it [among other things]- that's pretty cool!) Left took us to a cow trail that better resembled a cliff side, so we went right. We got out, eventually after bottoming out once or twice.

This evening found us at Rancho Yugo again at a pastor's supper for lots of the pastors that YUGO works with. The theme (as far as I could understand the Spanish and connect that with the folks we met who were presenters) was Missions. Not so much missions TO Mexico, but Missions FROM Mexico. There seems to be a move afoot to send more Mexicans overseas as missionaries. I readily concur. I would love to be a part of the training of Mexican young folks to send them as effective missionaries to the world! It was exciting to hear of this movement coming around!

We also had a good chance ot meet agian with Martin Castro- the pastor we'l be working with. We meet wiht them tomorow night for supper and to make some plans for the future. They have a fmaily in the community we're church planting in interested in meeting for Bible studies, that may start as early as next weekend. So we're on the move, things are coming into place and God is moving and providing!!

Please pray for our support levels, That we'd br up to par soon, pray that we will learn spanish well and that we'd be effective!

Thanks for your partnership!!!

Mike