Mexico City!

MEXICO CITY CLASS TRIP!


It's been so long! I apologize for waiting so long to write! This is always my excuse, but it's been so insanely busy! So here you go! I am going to tell you about our trip to Mexico City as a class!

We left Thursday, February 2 and came back Thursday, February 9. The AIM class and a few assistants and our directors rode a bus all the way there and back. It was a crazy long time! But, the ride went very smoothly. A group from the Sunset International Bible Institute flew and met us there.

We got there Friday night and 25 of us girls stayed at "The Pink House." It's the missionary house that Sunset owns there in Mexico City. The rest of the people were staying at a hotel. So we basically had a quick meeting and then a group of us went to a little restaurant to eat dinner. We didn't get back to the Pink House till about 11 I think. Anyways, so that was our first night in MC. 


The next day, Saturday, we got up and our whole group went to an orphanage to paint! We painted basically the entire place. I think there were 2 buildings and i'm pretty sure we painted outside and inside some. The reason I am not really sure is because my group was in the very back corner and we couldn't really tell what else was going on all day. It was an excellent day. We all ate lunch together and had a great time. At the end of our time there we sang for the kids and took up a collection for the ladies who work there because they are just volunteers. Then, the best part of the whole day happened, the kids from the orphanage sang to us! It was so sweet! Then we loaded up the bus and the kids all wanted to come on the bus just to see what it looked like, so they all walked up and down the aisle and gave everyone high fives! It was so sweet! Then we went home.

On Sunday we were in our "groups of the week" which were our teams and our assistants and a couple SIBI people, oh and someone from Mexico. So we took public transportation to church and the church service was great!  We sang and Paul (from SIBI) preached in spanish and it was and awesome lesson about love. Then we got back in our groups and we went to Coyacan. It's a market place with all kinds of food and shops and stuff. We split up into smaller groups and had a few hours to eat and shop. That was basically the big part of the day.

On Monday we went to Cuernavaca, a little town near MC, to work! It was probably my favorite day! I got to work really hard! We went to a canyon place first and sang and had a devotional. Then we split up in pretty random groups and went to different places to do different things. There were two painting groups, a group that went to an orphanage, a group that went into town to sing and pass out fliers and then there was our group, we went to another church to help them clean up a little bit. Well, we got there and they needed us to fill their water container on top of their bathroom so a few guys spent the couple hours hauling buckets of water from the stream to pass them up to the guys on top of the roof to fill the water tank. They also need us to clean out their church building which required us to take everything outside. There were huge cabinets and filing cabinets and bookshelves and things like that, that were all very heavy! So we did all of that and a few people scrubbed the church down. Then they needed a few of us to level out the ground in front of their church! Yay! So I got to dig and hoe all day! It was awesome! I met a man named Mario from the church there and he only speaks spanish so we started making fun of each other and then he started telling me about his daughter and her kids and things like that! It was awesome! So we were really dirty and just had so much fun!


On Tuesday we got in groups and went to the Basilica and to the Latin American Tower. It was a day of sight seeing but also a day of seeing the Lord. It was amazing. We passed out bibles and food and got to see other cool things too. It was wonderful!

On Wednesday we went to the pyramids and then headed home. It was another long drive but it wasn't too bad. I didn't get to sleep very much this time, but it was ok. I had a lot of fun!

That's basically the trip. We had devotionals every morning. We watched the super bowl and had real mexican tacos on Sunday night. We did lots of other little random things! It was great! God really blessed us by giving us a safe, smooth, fun trip! I think He was glorified a lot!

Sorry, this was so long! Oh, the new picture on my blog is of my team! The five of us are going to Guadalajara, Mexico for our field time! We are so excited and ready to see what God has is store for us!
We got to meet our coordinators and their family and the AIM team that is already in Guadalajara. They came to work with us in Mexico City! It was awesome! Cory and Toni Burns are our coordinators and they have 3 kids, Josiah, Abigail and Hannah. The current Guad AIM team is 4 boys, Angel Duran, Jordan Pointon, Luke Merrick and Landon Fuller! We are so excited to get to  go work with all of them!

Have a wonderful week! May the Lord Bless You and Keep you!

AIMing for the Lord! Emily Rose Hale