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The Glories of the Glorietta

Known as "Round abouts" in some places, these types of intersections are very popular here. It is hard to see from this photo, but this glorietta near our house has two lanes and traffic signals on it. People here drive really fast and don't hesitate to cut in on you or honk at you if you are not going as fast as they think you should. It's a bit hairy at first but you find yourself flying right in there without much thought after awhile. There is a four lane strip in the middle with arterial roads on each side of "Deiz y ocho de Marzo", the bigger of the two streets meeting here.

Eduardo and Annette

Here is a photo of a birthday party at our house for fellow missionary Andy Clark (on the right with the Kojack haircut). Eduardo and Annette and their family came over to enjoy some "Tres Leche" cake (three milks cake). I love it!

We have become pretty good friends with Eduardo and their family; they live right across the street. They have 4 children; Sophie 12, Karen 9, Eduardo 7, and Daniel is a newborn and made his entrance about a month ago. (You can see the portable baby crib in the background.) They have spent time showing us around the city and various points of interest.

Please pray for Eduardo as his mother is terminially ill. He has been going to work every day and staying with her every night at the hospital. She is a diabetic and has a virus on her brain. Pastor Rafael Santana and I were able to go visit her recently. Pastor was able to read the 23rd Psalm with her and to talk with her about placing her trust only in God. She is only 57 and is understandably fighting feelings of bitterness about having her life cut short. We were able to pray with them and continue to pray that the Lord will pour out His grace on her.

Big Mac

It's amazing what a few bags of dog food and a few months can do!! "Kenz" is a great dog and loves to retrieve. She is pretty wild due to not having any place to run right now except when I go jogging or the kids and I take her to the mountain. She actually got ran over by a car a few months ago but thanks be to God she was hurt very little. Very sore for a few days! We love her a lot.

Jethro Bodine and the cement pond

In our May newsletter I mentioned going to Autlan for a few days. One of the things we did was help Pastor Antonio pour the floors in 2 of the bedrooms of his home. It was a great time; just me and Brent doing some father-son time and Brent got to play with Nahum who is his age. (Daniela, Pastor Antonio's daughter, is sitting next ot Brent in the photo.) Pastor Antonio's wife fed us well; her homemade flautas are awesome! Good Spanish practice as well as learning more about cement finishing the Mexcian way. Pour the gravel and sand and cement into a pile and mix thoroughly. Bake on high for 30 minutes. No, wait that was the cake receipe. Let's see; oh yeah: add the right ratio of buckets of water once you have made a "pool" for it. Then mix thoroughly and either haul it our in buckets through the window or into the wheel barrow and down the hall. Piece a cake. I am looking forward to fellowshipping more with Pastor Antonio once we get to Autlan.

Mountain Biking

There is a neat guy up the street named Victor. He has two boys, Koke and Estaban. Victor is an avid mountain bike rider. Victor and Estaban talked me and the kids into going with them one day to the "Bosque Primavera" or "forest" outside of town.

What a workout! Jessica began to think it was a cruel joke after awhile. She said it reminded her of the guy who was beating himself on the head with a hammer. Someone asked, "Why on earth are you doing that!!??" and he replied "Because it feels so good when I quit!!"

Preach it, hermano!

It has been a real priviledge for me to get to preach on three different occasions at Palabra Fiel Iglesia Biblica here in Guadalajara. We have been studying Ephesians in the Sunday School hour. I have done a message on Eph. 2 ( one of mi muy favorito pasajes) and Ephesians 4. I also spoke on Mothers Day about Mary's Magnificant in Luke 1. No, I am not preaching in Spanish yet; Pastor Rafael is translating. We can't expect people to come to church to be tortured can we? :)

You will notice Dane ,Christian, and Morgan singing on Mothers day also. Yes, they can do it in Espanol!

Nice School Bus, Eh?

I can't believe my last blog entry was in February!! I feel like I am in college again and having those dreams like I use to have where I was behind on my studies and finals were tomorrow! Language school has been alot more of a challenge than I thought it would be. Praise God today I took the finals for level 3. August 8th school will be over and a group of 13 are coming from my home church of Bethany Baptist in Salem, Oregon for a 10 day missions trip.

OK; about the airplane: here in Mexico there are small schools everywhere but I have yet to see the traditional yellow school bus. People either give their kids a ride or walk them to school. (We live 3 doors down from a school and every morning and afternoon there are a bunch of cars looking for a place to park so they can pick up their kids. Parking is a valuable commodity and there are also no big parking lots common to schools in the U.S.)

One day we were on our way home from language school when we saw this "Bus" parked in front of a school. I came back with the camera just as it was driving away. It said "Limosine" on the side and it looked like they hired it for a field trip or something. Pretty cool actually but VERY wide! Visibility for the driver wasn't too hot either.