On Valentine's Day, Miguel and I spent the evening with our church GCC (Christian Fellowship Group i.e. single group). We decorated cookies and took them to some women from church. We enjoyed chatting with them, eating some snacks they made for us, and afterwards we all stopped to buy hot dogs. We all had a lot of fun! This photo is when we were waiting on our hot dogs. I am wearing the sweater Miguel gave me that day!
Tuesday evenings, Miguel has a men's Bible study at Café Sed. I usually go along and read, chat with others, and try to update this blog every other week. :) A couple weeks ago, I took my sketch book along.
This time of year, hat hair is an everyday affair for this guy.
On February 6th, Issa and I took Mr. Speedie to his clinic in Nogales. I got a lot of great pictures of him, but alas I can't post his face. However if you follow me on instagram, I did an instagram story of the day that is saved under my profile, so you can check it out if you like...
We had a cold snap the last two weeks. One Wednesday, Balto's water bucket had frozen! Also, as a result of the "intense cold," school was scheduled to start 2 hours later for two weeks. It threw our schedules off, but I got to go to work late about five different days since I do the school route. And may have taken a few early morning naps! :)
Miguel and I purchased a gym membership this month, so we have been getting up a little after five and going to the gym for 45 min. We arrive home around 6:40 am. and leave again for work at 7:20-25 am.
On February 15th, Miguel and I were thankful to witness the wedding celebration of Jackie and Fernando. It was a beautiful day, but I don't have a photo of them for you.
Sunday I had an adventure that I hope to never repeat. If you look carefully, you may be able to see that the white van in the picture above is stuck in the river. I was substituting for one of the church routes. And well, I knew there was more water than usual from rains earlier in the week... I knew I could take an extra 10-15 min. and go to the bridge and backtrack, but it didn't look too deep, so... I went for it and ended up very, very stuck. I couldn't see real well where the cars had been going through. (While I sat there several made it through off to my left.) It was just that the rocks in that part were large and the wheels sunk right in. Miguel came with our SUV type vehicle, but couldn't get it out, so I waded to shore and we went home for our other car. Someone else was able to pick up some of the later people on the route and once I had the car I went to pick up the few that remained. We made it for the noon hour and second service. Miguel, Adam Kaeb, and his brother, Aaron, spent the noon hour driving the backhoe to the other side of town and pulling the van out. I am very thankful for capable, helpful men! And thankful that things worked out in the end.
Of course, after experiences like that it's so easy to think, "Why didn't I...?" or "If only I had...?" but sometimes things happen. And we probably learned a good lesson, or met someone we wouldn't have met otherwise, or got a dose of humility... God is a master at redeeming our mistakes!
My Treasure
What is my treasure and my worth?
What values do I place?
What object is my focus line?
Where is my eager race?
What treasures fill my treasure chest?
And where do I delight?
For where my treasure is, God says,
Shall also be my heart.
May God bless you each one!
