| LIFE IN MEXICO |
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| DAY ON THE TRASH RUN |
| Nathan had promised Timotea that one day he would ride his trash route with him. Early in the morning we arrived in the Los Patos (the ducks) vicinity. Many of our dump church folks live in this area. While hubby rode the wagon I spent the day with his 4 daughters who claim me as the 5th sister (also 3 brothers). |
| We brought over a donated bike for brothers Gustavo & Pedro to share. Left them a air pump to keep them moving. |
| One of the sweetest 12 year olds lives in this house with her family. It was a foggy morning. |
| Seriously, I wonder how the wagon holds together. There are trash trucks in town but he Timotea serves private customers. They rode clear across Reynosa to a nice part of town, knocked on doors, & carried out their trash. At the end of the day they went to the new dump, paid 40 peso's & dumped the trash. His original horse recently died & his kids pooled their $$$ to buy this new one! The harness is held together with string. |
| I was trying to get a picture from the very front but they took off as soon as they loaded! |
| So....I got the back side instead! |
| I'm standing at the top of the road - in March we have a group from Alabama coming to build a house connected to the pink house. 6 people/2 beds house Yudi (in green) & her family. |
| Using my 10x zoom - here is Moses (1/4 of the kids). Mom & Dad to the right. I had never met dad before - he seems to disappear when we show up! |
| Where's WALDO or better yet...... where's the CHICKEN? |
| I had Josefina go with me visiting some of our Dump church folks that haven't come in a few weeks. This is Belin's family home. She's 14 & pregnant. |
| Borrowing Tia's (aunt) washtub. |
| A GIANT ELMO at the Rio! |
| MaMa & PaPa (since I'm their 5th nina). MaMa fixed mole (mo lay) & aroze for dinner. I brought a pan of brownies. You only have that for special occasions, like the wedding below. |
| Yudi, Sonja, Gloria & Josefina babysat me. We walked several miles so that I could see each of their homes. We sat on their beds, looked at pictures & had a great time. Nate is always amazed that I can communicate in my own way. We laughed & laughed! |
| We were invited to dinner (noon for you city folks) by Juan & Felicity who live in Rio Bravo, MX. The 4 of us became friends last year when we were searching out evangelism areas. Across from their home are 2 large fields where CELEBRANDO NAVIDAD will be held this December. Generally we know we'll be eating beans, rice & corn tortilla's but NO...they put on the feed for us....carne asada (grilled steak), pollo asada (grilled chicken), hot links, guacamole, chili (jalapeno's pureed), & homemade flour tortilla's. We've NEVER had flour tortilla's in Mexico...always corn because they're cheap to buy! Those of you that know me well know that I'm all about describing food. Juan is a welder by occupation. He just finished up with an 8 foot grill & two 4 foot ones for Celebrando. From Rio Bravo we headed on over to Juanie & Saul's home for afternoon church. We have worked with them for 3 years with their CHURCH ON THE PORCH. |
| Their 3 nieces now belong to them as momma has other things she'd rather do. They also have 4 adult kids. |
| Felecity making dough balls for the flour tortilla's. |
| My job was to cook the tortilla's. This home was a little unusual than our normal hangouts. They had gas to cook with! |
| I asked Juan if they ate like this everyday & he laughed & said NO, only if an American helps them out. Behind him is one of our grills. |
| On to Reynosa for CHURCH ON THE PORCH. You may recognize this was the place of the wedding a few weeks ago. (L-R) Juanie opening with scripture. Guest preacher sharing with the first arrivals. Nathan giving a testimony in Spanish. |
