Hello Mexico!

So...I just got back from a week in Mexico and let me put your mind at ease "NO I DONT have the swine flu!" My dad says I was the one who brought the flu to Mexico since I was sick before I went down, but I was no where near Mexico City so I am innocent!

Anyway...it was just a short trip. I went to a town called Nuevo Laredo which is across the border from the Texas town of Laredo. I have a friend named Arica who was attending a missionary program with an organization called Victorious Christian Harvesters (aka VCH)and graduated on April 25th, and I went down the week before to check out the organization and to see Arica. It was a very interesting experience. VCH held for the first time ever a crusade with a man named TL Osbourn. It was a week long and then on Sunday night we had a healing and miracle service. Everyone was honored that TL was there....I was not so sure how I felt about him (I am not so much the evangelist type) but he was speaking on having a relationship with God and not one that is just church on Sunday, and when speaking in Mexico that is something they need to hear. Everyone claims to be a Christian because they are Catholic, so this message was good for the people to hear.

Along with being an usher for the conference, I was the photographer for the miracle and healing service and was an "intern" (that was Arica's title while she was there). I just served in whatever way was needed and attended the classes that were reqiured. The pastor that spoke for the student classes spoke on the difference between faith and belief, which was a challenge. Belief is knowing in theory and faith is putting it into motion and living out that belief. Talk about challenge! Walk out the things I talk about! Yikes! I was also sick in bed on Thursday...I think we got some bad food and everyone was throwing their guts up....the people are hard core in Mexico though, so we went to the conference and threw up between taking the offering and passing out the notes for the preacher.

Have you ever thought that you will not have the strength to do what God has asked you to do? I think that quite often....I mean I know that He will not ask me to do anything that He knows I cannot do, but sometimes I feel overwhelmed at the request He has made for me to be a missionary. And trying to figure out what that looks like is even more intimidating. It used to be simple.....missionaries lived in foreign countries, in grass huts, ate the same food and never had any problems sharing the gospel with the people around them. Youthful ignorance is no longer in place and there are different ways to serve in the mission....sometimes that is soooooo overwhelming and God was not specific when He put the call on my life, so it is an adventure on the way to where I am suppossed to be. Anyway....if you all will just pray for specific instructions from God I would appreciate it. Blessings to you all and I hope to get comments from you all. Oh....and pictures from the house are at walmart, so I will be posting those soon and hopefully some pics from the crusade!