This was week 3

The longer I am here the more I love the Mexican culture and where my family came from! The warmth of the Mexican people and culture is absolutely beautiful. The hospitality, inclusiveness, and celebration makes me feel at home. Even though I come from the States they have made me an honorary Mexican here at the base. When I go to church, talk to the kids on the street, and sing songs of worship in Spanish it motivates me more and more to press into the culture, people, and language. I was talking with the speaker here this week and he told me that I grew up as a hamburger, but I am really a burrito. I have been blessed by a fellow Mexican classmate here to become my personal tutor. She feels as if it is ministry to help me out and knows that God is going to use it in big ways. With all that said I made my decision on where I will be going for the second half of this time. On Friday the school presented the class with this years outreach locations: China, Australia, and Mexico. We were to pray about it over the weekend and decide this past Monday. I’m excited about this outreach where we will be traveling all through this beautiful country from Chiapas to Ensenada. Please be praying for all three teams in preparation, protection, and safety. Meanwhile, the first half of this time has been a little bit of a struggle for me. I love the community, diversity, and spirit of this place, but It has been difficult and humbling for me to be taken from a position of leadership with my church at home and placed into the position of a student under new leadership. I have never considered myself rigid, but I am experiencing some hesitation toward some things here. Being a little older and having to abide by rules that sound like they are for kids at camp is tough. I get the principle behind it and I am in support of it, but to be under it has posed itself to be a challenge, but I know that God is at work.