Thunder and Lightening

Hello Everyone-

What a HOT week this has been. We can really tell that things are warming up A LOT. Between small spats of rain and sun, it’s really getting a lot more humid and hot. Last night, or early this morning, we had a small electrical storm with thunder and lightening. It was pretty incredible. The lightening was striking right in the bay outside our window. We got up at about 4:30AM and went to the balcony for some pictures and got a couple pretty good ones. It soon started raining so we went back to bed. The sun was able to burn off the clouds by about 11 this morning and the sun came out.


Today we took our latest “cool cash” grand prize winner and her brother to see Kung Fu Panda. We took them to Burger King for lunch, got her little brother, Raul, a graduation outfit, and then saw the movie. Our grand prize winner’s name is Nailley, and she chose to invite her little brother, Raul. He is graduating from kindergarten this year and needed a uniform for the graduation, which is what we bought before seeing the movie. They had a great time and really enjoyed the movie! We liked it too!


This was actually the last week of Pan de Vida, contrary to what we were thinking. Next week is school registration for next year, so the kids will be preparing for that before they are actually out of school for this year. Along with helping pastor Ric with his mission teams, pastor Luis Miguel and Lupita have also asked us to help with a mission team that will be coming to do a VBS for Pan de Vida and build some houses. They would like us to be interpreters, so we feel like we will be having our hands full with “out of towners.” Since we don’t have Pan de Vida next week, we are sure there will be other things for us to do.

(This is Luis, one of the kids at Pan de Vida. He drew a picture of himself today!)

This was my first week back to Quimixto since it was raining last week and it was cancelled. Our new friends that are here for a month were invited to come along (Amy and Alisha), but only Alisha came as Amy was sick. She had a great time and I was able to see about ten people. The “clinic” seems like it is going well, but with school winding down, this next Wednesday will also be my last. Hopefully Amy will be able to come along this time too since she is also a newly graduated nurse.

Joel had a very productive week for Fine Designs He was at the internet cafe a lot and made some good progress. We are continually thankful to God for allowing him to be able to work from here and for providing for us in that way.

Tomorrow at church we will be saying “goodbye” to Dennis and Faye. About this time every year, they pack up and drive back to the US for about a month and a half to see family and raise support. They stay in the Bay Area of San Francisco with friends when they go home. They have been such a blessing and encouragement for us while we’ve been here and we’ll miss them. It’s been so nice to have connections like them while we’ve been here...someone to help take care of us if we need something.

We continue to enjoy watching the neighborhood kittens. The second set of kittens across the way from us have grown up quickly. They enjoy playing in the plants and driving “mama kitty” crazy! They like to wrestle with each other too...here in Mexico it’s called “Lucha Libre.” Nonetheless, they provide us with great free entertainment. We also still have one kitten left over from Pancha’s batch too.

(This is the one kitten we have left that's living on our balcony along with her mom, Pancha)

(The babies like to sleep in the plants where it's nice and cool)

(Mama Kitty (Micha) sleeping in the plants while her kittens sleep behind)

That’s about all we know for now. Please be praying for our car...it has started making some funny noises and we know it could use some mechanical intervention. All the cobblestone streets, our hill, and the dirt roads out at the dump make for rough conditions for a car.

Thanks for your continued prayers and for checking in!

Joel and Leslie