Buenas tardes! Well I have moved places yet again. Last week I finished up my language classes in Cuernavaca with my host family, the Piñóns. It was sad to leave them after spending so much time with them over the past few weeks. But they are an awesome family and we hope to see each other again someday in the near future.
And now, I am back at El Monte for the last leg of the trip. I have been back since the beginning of the week and getting adjusted to waking up and seeing a beautiful, gigantic green mountain out my front balcony. It’s really very different than the city life of Cuernavaca but its a good different because it is very peaceful. We have another work team with us from the Quad Cities that arrived on Tuesday. I have been working with them scraping, finishing and painting the new bathhouse down by the soccer fields. It’s coming along very good and we should have that finished soon. We also will be making sidewalks up by the palapa (the pavilion where camp meeting times are held) to connect it to the pool and other cabins. Pray that my back holds up as I have been having sharp pains in my lower back this whole trip and have gotten worse over these past couple days. I only have a little over 2 weeks left here and I really want to give 100% of myself to these weeks. “I can do all things through, Christ who strengthens me”
Today and tomorrow is the celebration of Mexican independence down here. Many of you probably thought that Cinco de Mayo was the Independence Day but it is actually today/tomorrow. Cinco de Mayo is Mexico’s independence from France, but today, El Grito, is the celebration of Mexico’s independence from Spain. They have a 2 day long celebration that starts today with the actual Independence Day being tomorrow. To give you a little history lesson, in the early hours of September 16th, 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a priest in the small town of Dolores, Guanajuato, rang the church bell to gather the townspeople. He called for the people of Mexico to rise up against the Spanish Crown, thus initiating Mexico's War of Independence. The country did not achieve independence until 1821, but it is this event, known as the Grito de Dolores which is commemorated every year in town squares across Mexico. So we are heading to the church in Ticuman tonight for a 6 hour service/fiesta to celebrate Mexico’s Independence. It will be interesting to see the difference between our 4th of July and their Grito.
You know you’re in Mexico when…. You stick out like a sore thumb, because not only do you look like a snowman (a mythical creature to them) but you are taller than 99.9% of the people here.
Ok, well that’s all from the mountains of Mexico.
Dios bendiga a Mexico. Viva Mexico!
Billy
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