An AMAZING trip!!!

Where should I begin? As the title hinted, I'm pretty much having the time of my life here in Mexico! But I guess the best place to start is the beginning, when we stepped out of the security area of the the Mexico City airport. As soon as we got some ¨luggage issues¨ worked out and started heading out to the cars, the Mexicans who had come to take us to the Becerra's immediatly grabbed our suitcases, leaving us with nothing to carry and both of their arms full! From there on, I never ceased to be amazed at their hospitality and absolute LOVE for us; some of us complete strangers! We stayed at the Becerra's house for the first night, and they gave up the master bedroom and 2 of the kids' bedrooms for us to sleep in, while some of them shared a little hide-a-bed in the dining room/kitchen area. Things like making us meals, giving up homes and offering everything they had amazed me, even though I had experienced things like this only 2 years ago.

Then, there was the first round of VBS, where we first experienced kids' love. As you may know, we stayed in a house about 5 minutes away from the church in Huixquillican. And the kids there enthusiastically joined us in countless rounds of ¨Stella Ella Olla¨(a hand clapping game for you who are not familiar with popular 1990's games =D ) , helping us with our Spanish, looking after their little brothers and sisters... just amazing, loving children! We were sad when those 3 days ended, but were very excited to go back to Monte Sion, where it all started last year. It's been two days there, and I can't even describe the love those children show us; both kids who remembered us from 2006 and even new ones. They will come up and just SQEEZE you, and you can't help but see nothing but God's love in their beautiful brown eyes and their vibrant smiles. They know nothing about us, other than the fact that we're leading a little kids camp at their church and that's enough for them to show love to us like they've known us for years.

Now, for some of my personal experiences. On the first day, when we first arrived at the Becerra's, I walked over to Mrs Becerra, and we just held on to each others' hands, not really being able to say anything to each other except for ¨How are you?¨ But she showed me love in a different way. Taking this pretty blue beaded bracelet off of her wrist, she held it out to me. Not knowing what else to do, I stuck out my wrist, and she slipped it on. She just GAVE me her bracelet; and even though she didn't say anything, I KNEW this was her way of saying she loved me and was happy to see me again!

There's this fourteen-year-old boy who lives in a house on the church property named Obed. While we were at Huixquillican, he stayed in a house just above us, so we got to spend some time with him. And on Tuesday, he played with a bunch of us on the roof (yes, we hang out on the roofs of houses a lot-- there's always a way to get up there. On this particular roof there were a couple little dogs who lived there, so we had to watch out where we sat!!) ; just laughing and playing a card game (and I won! Haha.) . But then it started to rain, and along with that the thunder and lightening sent us inside. So, there, a few us of sat there and talked; (and laughed-- a LOT!! I mean, sometimes when we do something funny or he tells us something and we don't understand, he just says, ¨You crazy!!¨but anyway) he taught me Spanish but his willingness to try to communicate and how awesome of a time we were having was amazing to me! Ever since then, he feels like a Mexican version of my fourteen-year-old brother, Joel. Just goofing off and being weird; teaching me special Mexican hand shakes and really having a blast around him!

Okay, one more thing... last night after showing a kids movie, most of the kids had left, so we were all hanging out; singing songs in Spanish AND English (sometimes the same song but different languages!! So cool!) . But I was talking to this one girl who had lived in Quebec for 2 years... I finally found someone who speaks French in Mexico! I would say her name, but I really had no idea even how to pronounce it. Maybe she'll write it down next time I see her; hopefully tomorrow! But I learnt that when she came back to Mexico about a year ago, because she was in a Canadian school they wouldn't let her into a Mexican school right away. So, as a 15-year-old, she'll be starting grade 7 in December. Her days are filled with just working, so it was really interesting talking to her!

It's about 9 local time right now; (Terry just told me we had a team meeting in 10 minutes!!) so I will go offline. Hope you enjoyed reading this (and that it made sense-- I'm a little tired because last night was late and this morning pretty early) !!

Oh, and who am I? I'm Megan; might be useful for the following people to know!
I love you Mommy, Daddy, Joel and Austin and I miss you; I have souvernirs for you guys!!!