Getting Settled

It is amazing to think that we have already been here for over a week.  We have mostly put our apartment together and we are now just waiting on furniture being delivered and a few odds and ends.   But the feeling of just being here is absolutely amazing!  I never would have imagined that I would be feeling this great and excited.  But I guess knowing all of the support we have  praying for our transition into Mexico City I should not be surprised!  The apartment we have is perfect for us I couldn't of imagined anything nicer :)  I absolutely love the area, I love the culture, (what I know so far) I love the market up the street, being able to walk most places.  The new members of our team our absolutely wonderful I can not even tell you how blessed we are just meeting them and how excited we are to work together with them.  Now to just finish fixing up the things around the apartment that we haven't had time to get to like hooking up the washer and dryer, fixing a toilet!  And working on our spanish of course!

Here are a few pictures of our week.  The first one is a view from our apartment, the second one is of Izzy and her friend in grade three (from the other couple on our team!) and the third is of Carmela eating roasted corn, a very popular meal.

enjoy

Graduation Pictures from today!!

Thought we would share some picture of grad!  With us are Manuel and Ligia and there boys, oldest to youngest, David, Daniel and Pablo (hopefully a future son inlaw)  

Also with us was Stephanie and her mom Grace.   Jessica and her parents who were visiting from the states made it too!  What a blessing to be supported on such an important and meaningful day.

2 Days !!!

I can not believe how fast one year has gone. We are filled with do many different emotions. But the most powerful is the amazing sense of peace that surrounds us. As I read an email this morning from one of our supporters in Abbotsford, it brought tears to my eyes (another thing that I learnd this year, my crying doesn't mean that I am sad its the way I process!!!!) I felt an overwhelming sense of peace come over me. There is no greater freedom than to experience the peace of walking down the road you were created to and knowing that you have an army of people loving us and supporting us. I revel at the thought that one day we will all be together with all of the fruit of this journey and you will embrace them and they will embrace you for your love and provision that enables for us to be here and now in Mexico City doing what we are called to! Which is simply to love people, what a privilage and an honour to be sent out as ambassadors of love and peace.

love Sandra

Meet Stephanie!!!!

We are so excited to introduce Stephanie to you! We are very thankful for the ways you have already supported us through praying for Stephanie. She has already begun raising her support in hopes to join us in Mexico City. She is planning to visit us in November to meet the team. Please check out Stephanies blog (its in Spanish) but I would love for you to meet her.

http://stephmora.blogspot.com

this is also a picture of us setting up her blog!!! with only 6 day left in the counrty I am trying to do all I can to help support her in anyway, she is so sweet it is so easy to do.

Dios Puede Salvar Mighty to Save

12 Days Till Mexico City!!

It really is unbelievable to think that we only have less than two weeks and we will be on our next transition into Mexico City, our new home.  I was reminded tonight of the words of a missionary in MC, from our scouting trip in Feb 2006.  I asked Cindy what she felt was the hardest to give up living for the last 14 (?) years in Mexico City.  I remember at the time her answer astounded me but tonight as I think back over this weekend and over this past year my heart already resonates with Cindy's words to me.  Cindy had answered my curious question with this..... She didn't feel like she had given up anything but that actually they had been given immeasurably more than they could of ever dream of for their family.   I can already feel how much God has opened my heart to understanding how gracious he is to us.  He has given us the privilege to meet people we would never have been given the opportunity to love and enjoy.  This obviously is not always easy in light of the fact that when we leave in 12 days, we do not know if we will ever be able to spend time with some of these wonderful people we have met.  Most of them, Costa Rican's who have blessed our lives in so many ways and have opened their hearts to us and allowed us into their lives even for such a brief time as one year.   Who knew we would have....been stretched so much...(one day I am going to write a book entitled  Stretch Marks!!) who knew we would have ever loved so much in one year.....seen so much of God's faithfulness......and in the same moments watch all of our borders to what we knew as normal disappear.  We are so thankful for the love and support we feel from home!  We know everyday that we are an extension of you in Latin America.

Love Sandra