Out and about...

So, on the first day of finals, the children of Pastor Moi and his family (Caleb, Moillito, and Melly), Erika, Christina (an american student living with Pastor Moi and his fam), Sally, Leslie (Erika's sister), a few other people from Pastor Moi's other church (La Roca...The Rock...he has two churches), and I went to a place called Peter Piper Pizza. It's basically like a grown-up version of Chucky Cheese. It was a lot of fun. The particular Peter Piper where we went was near the house of Moi which is like at least an hour from where Sally and I and Erika and Leslie live, so we all spent the night at Moi's house with Melly and Christina. We ate pizza and played games in the arcade-type area. They even had DDR in there!!! It was lots of fun. Erika and Melly spent the night earning tickets....crazy how many they won..we were there until everything closed down, so they didn't get to cash in their tickets for prizes, but I think they plan to do so next time.

Erika, Melly, Leslie

Christina, Sally, Me

We headed back to Moi's house, but first, we stopped to drop off the couple other people from the other church. They own a bakery and at night they make birotes (a type of bread they eat here...very yummy). Since it was night when we dropped them off, they invited us in to see how they make it. This particular bakery makes it all by hand. It was really amazing to see them mixing and kneading the dough by hand and then also to see how they get the dough into the huge oven (basically all the space behind the back wall of their house) and how they get the baked bread out. Then we headed back to Moi's house, but during the trip, Melly and I ended up torturing Erika a bit...tickling and all that kind of stuff. We were laughing so hard, and at one point, she ended up in the floor of the suburban we were in.

Erika in the floor of the suburban

It was quite histerical! Once we arrived back at the house all the young people (Caleb, Moillito, Melly, Erikca, Leslie, Sally, Christina, and I) stayed up until 1 am playing Killer Uno...I'm telling you that game is highly addictive and is catching on quickly here in Mexico!

It was quite an enjoyable experience, and it was really great to spend some more time with Moi's kids. I saw them every week at church, but didn't have much opportunity to spend real time with them until the couple weeks before I left. But we enjoyed hanging out all together and had quite a good time. I'm looking forward to future opportunities to get back and visit everyone and to continue to get to know them better and build those relationships up in the Lord! How amazing it is to have this opportunity to know so many different parts of the body of Christ...GLOBALLY!!! It's mind-boggling, but it's wonderful! Perhaps it's just a taste of what we will know when we are all together in Eternity one day....