Tita's Childrens "Hostipal"

So we have a need for prayer from all of you at home. We are coming to our last week and we're fighting sickness! Kelsey started us off by getting a bacterial infection... the whole runny, stuffy nose, sore throat, wooziness... all that goodness. Then Morgan had really bad stomach problems, and then Janae got a cold. Then... Kyle had cut his knee a week ago and one wound hadn't healed completely. When we went to visit the Tepehuane Indians on Thursday he got it infected while swimming in the river with the kids. Now, he is on lots of antibiotics waiting for the infection to drain from his knee. Not to be concerned, just pray for us, no need to be stressed out at home.

We are believing that God still has alot for us even in this last week, so we would greatly appreciate you warring with us in prayer. This will be a week of being strengthened by the Lord and not being weakened by sickness. Thank you so much for all the prayer thus far we can't wait to see all of you 9 more days!

Elota

This past weekend we went to a little town called Elota, each of these video's resemble sounds that we heard throughout the night on our first Elota visit which was 2 saturday's ago. We didn't get them filmed until the next morning but just sit back, close your eyes and experience Elota with us. Oh and they may be seperate videos but ALL these sounds were going on from about 1-8 in the morning, along with the freezing cold...

Tepehuanes

So, Thursday we went to the Tepehuanes! Finally! We thought we wouldn't be able to go, but early morning, we packed tight in Alfonso's truck and headed off because we had to catch the bus...literaly! Alfonso was trying to get ahead of the bus because we missed it, so the race was on! Eventually, we got ahead of the bus and flagged it down! So Morgan, Laura and Kelsey quickly climbed on the bus and we started for Escuinapa! It was quite an adventerous start to our day! We reached the Tepehuanes around 1 and parked right in front of the Cheif's hut where we first visited! The cheif's wife was preparing fresh corn tortillas for us when we came in! She was still in the first step of grinding the corn up! Kelsey, Kyle, Laura and Morgan all helped grind the corn, too! And actually, when Kyle was grinding, he did it so hard that the grind machine broke and fell in pieces! Luckily, we were able to put it back together! Later on, kids started showing up, so we went outside to play with them! We had brought toys for them to play with like hoola-hoops and skips-its! We're not sure if they had seen those toys before, so we had to show them how to use them! It was a good ice breaker for the kids and for us! Alfonso and the guys wanted to play volleyball, so we walked over to the court so they could play! A bunch of older guys were already playing so Alfonso challenged them to play against us! Kelsey, Morgan, Preston, Kyle and Alfonso played and lost terribly! Those guys are good! The rest of the afternoon was a lot interaction with the kids! We played freeze tag, duck, duck, goose, we sang worship songs with them and we brought a snack and a little drink for them! While everyone was eating their snack, some of the kids decided to climb the tree and slide down the brances! Morgan and Preston thought it would be a great idea to try it out, so up they went! We got some video footage and we'll let that explain it all!

After that, we went back to the chief's house to eat some grub! It was the most amazing tortillas, beans, eggs and cactus we had ever eaten before! As Janae would say, "It was fantastic!" We were very honored to be invited and to be welcomed by the chief and his wife! Most people aren't welcomed in the village because the history of their people is to not trust anyone because of how they were treated by the Spaniards. We were very privilaged to visit with them and to share the love of Christ! Pastor Joe, about 10 years ago, connected with this group that has now enabled us to continue relationships there in the village! That is an answered prayer and we are so grateful to God that He has opened up the door for us to reach this unsaved people group!

One of the pastor's kid from Espiritu y verdad went with us

we are a bit wind blown, we had been riding on the freeway for about 40 minutes....

making the tortillas......

we will load the videos soon, because for some reason everytime we try and upload them, they are taking a long time, so they will be up soon...blessings!!

A lil' bit of randomness!

Here are some random photos from our trip, we hope you enjoy them!!! Love you all, thanks for stopping by!

Our "hosts" parents

our kitchen table, like it?

Carlos and Preston

We had a family dinner with the Beltrans, and after our dinner we got out some instruments and had a little music show.
We took mitch to one of our favorite places to eat called Rosie's, and while we were waiting for our food, tito was teaching dana and mitch how to make this indian noise with thier hands. In no time at all, mitch was able to make the noise, as for the rest of us, we are still trying....

This is one of the first times kelsey and morgan straightened their hair....

This is the first place we ate when we got off the plane.....

only in mexico.....

Morgan got her wash cloth stuck in her nose ring.....

we passed buckets of rocks and sand up to each other to make piles on top of the roof, in the picture below were our positions.....

We got on a bus to go to eat and there were probably 40 to 50 people on that bus, it was a little crammedhere is kyle....

our times at the park near our house....

El Quelite

This is the wonderful land of El Quelite a place that Lilia and JR took us. The monday that Mitch was here visiting we drove about 45 minutes for breakfast. It is an adorable little town with an amazing restaurant that Tito and Tita are loyal to. The retired town doctor owns it and it is in the back of his beautiful house. Unfortunately most of the good pictures including all the ones of the restaurant are on Mitch's camera. But the highlights were chips, salsa, cheese, and fresh squeezed orange juice all waiting at the table for you. And then they serve you coffee and a bowl of fresh fruit. All this and the food hasnt even come yet, so then we ate this amazing breakfast (Preston, Morgan and Janae had cactus, tastes like greens beans and is quite good actually) and took a tour of the doctor's house. It was very unique and inventive, one bathroom's sink was two trumpets coming out of the wall and you turn the water on by twisting a key. To finish things off we walked around the town and took pictures...

Escuinapa

This weekend all of us piled into Alfonzo's truck with all our bags and headed for the bus station....we are going to ESCUINAPA! This is a little town about 1 1/2 outside of Mazatlan. We got there about mid afternoon on Friday, went to the hotel to drop our things off, went to the church to help Alfonzo start the cleaning (he is moving to out of the building into homes because the place where the church was, they are tearing it down and making aparments. So now they are having church in homes.), then grabbed a quick lunch.....

Friday Afternoon

While we were cleaning the church we found some clown costumes, so we decided to put them on......
and painted our faces.......
and then we went to invite the kids of Pueblo Nuevo to come on Saturday and play.

In the picture below, they are chanting Kelsey's name because they wanted her to run around the place where we where, so they could chase her!!! They did that with all of us. It was great fun!!these are a couple of kids from the church, they went with us where we went!

About mid-afternoon on Saturday, we finished cleaning the church and putting everything in a storage unit.

These little critters were all over the place in the storage unit, the one below was dead, but there were plenty of live ones we got to see! (This is just for you Rochelle) The girls also found one in their room Sunday morning, while they were doing devotions, preston heroically killed it.
We also found some cocroaches......
This is another little critter Janae and Laura found in the church, they named it Henry....

Pueblo Nuevo

on Saturday afternoon

Saturday around 4, we headed back over to pueblo nuevo. We played "duck, duck, goose", did some face painting, sang a couple worship songs, then we did a drama called "The Treasure". We shared with them that Jesus is our treasure and He is also our comforter, healer, and our peace....

they really like this parachute....

we had a great time!!!!

Sunday morning

New Song Escuinapa

Kyle, Dana, and Preston led worship for the church and then Kyle and Dana gave their testimonies. They did a fabulous job! Then Dana, Janae, Laura, Morgan and Preston took the kids outside and played a whole bunch of games with them, while kyle and Kelsey stayed inside with Alfonso and partnered with him in prayer over each person in the church.
its frank, and that pretty much says it all....


We over all had a really great time, and we are going back in two weeks.

SERVANTS ON THE MOVE!