Mexico Pexico, and we're gonna learn how to make tamales tomorrow!

Well an exciting update from my last post is that while we were on our "scenic tour" Carlos was at the hotel waiting for us and while he was waiting (he was a little worried so he waited down in the lobby for like 20 min before we showed) he talked to the bellboys and two of them decided to accept Jesus as their saviour and asked for Bibles. Isn't that awesome?! When Carrie told us about it she said that is just made more sense now because she couldn't figure out why we got lost, she'd driven that way so many times and Carlos had reminded her when we left ect ect. God had great plans though, so yeah that was just really cool.Another update is that the Brigade on Saturday was incredible. There was a doctor, a dentist, two or three hairdressers and painting and games for the kids (the games were facilitated by yours truly :) ). So many people came to see the doctor and the dentist as well as to get there hair cut. There were just so many practical needs met, it was great. People came with parasites, infections, chicken pox and various other illnesses as well as pregnant women who had not had no other way to get a prenatal exam. Oh and with the dentist we were able to teach the kids how to brush their teeth, and hand out toothbrushes to everyone. I really feel like we were able to meet alot of needs in this community. And also VERY exciting is the fact that over 40 people accepted the Lord as their saviour! Amazing huh.

In "debriefing" on the way back to the hotel and said that it was the "best day of my life"! And quite possibly it was. I got to play with the kids pretty much the entire day. They were so stinking wonderful. They didn't speak English but we loved eachother anyway and I got to teach them alot of fun games. They especially liked "Quack diddly oso". It was funny because they thought it was partially in Spanish. I guess it is, some of the words have meanings in Spanish. I want to know where that song comes from but I couldn't find anything online.

When I wasn't with the kids i helped the dentist. I held a light while he extracted a mans tooth, I also held the man's hand. The dentist was a really amazing guy. He told all his patients about the hope they can have in the Lord as he worked on their teeth.

Some more exciting news is that they really do have wrestlers here like they do in Nacho Libre! Isn't that awesome. On our way to that nice restaurant we passed a stadium that was holding one of the matches. All down the street there were stands selling the masks! Isn't that awesome. They are called "Luchedors" (i'm sure that's not the correct spelling). I also "discovered" that night that Carlos is secretly a luchedor! He denies it but that only confirms it to be true because a luchedor's identity is always secret! Whenever he mysteriously "disappears" I know where he is!

On Sunday Sarah and I had a really fun time walking around the market next to our hotel. It's huge. Sarah is hoping to find a good knockoff purse next Sunday.

The not so fun news is that on Sunday was the beginning of Montezuma's Revenge for me. It was extra horrible because it came upon me suddenly at church during worship. The bathrooms at the church do not have toilet seats or toilet paper and you have to throw the toilet paper (that you provide yourself) away in the garbage. To make it way worse is the fact that a lady decided to bring her daughter in just then to fix her hair. I was so embarrassed. Sadly it didn't end there though. Nope it just got worse. That night I had to use the bathroom probably about 7 times. Needless to say I didn't sleep too well. Praise the Lord though that I woke up to go, I had to pray about that before I went to bed, i was scared I wouldn't wake up. I'm pretty sure it was an angel who woke me up and led me to the bathroom the first time i got up. Praise the Lord I'm feeling much better today, well besides a little throwing up and alot of dry heaving at the clinictoday. I'm confident that tomorrow I will feel muchos mejor (much better). But seriously i have never had such horrible diarrhea in my life.

Alright picture time...

This is my favorite little girl, who reminds me so much of Abigail! Isn't she beautiful! She cracks me up. When she was getting her finger cleaned at first she kept saying "I don't want to see!", "I want to see!", "I don't want to see!", "I want to see!" (all in Spanish of course). She is super dramatic.

Yup that's me and Napoleon in Mexico, pretty sweet huh.

Here is the doctor giving us a lesson in self-defense. That is my friend Angela who is being used for an example. When he had her demonstrate on him, she got him real good. It was quite entertaining.

This is us having breakfast and devotions with the interns at the church. Sorry my head is turned, I was practicing my spanish on my poor neighbor.

Yup, this is how we roll.

Our lovely mariachi band, pretty good pic of everyone eating too huh. :)

This is one of my favorite patients. She broke her foot and dislocated her ankle skateboarding and the doctor had to pop it all back into place. It was pretty crazy. She didn't get any pain meds. She did an amazing job staying still and the doctor did an amazing job putting things back in place. She gave me a pin that was on her jacket and today when she came back the to clinic I gave her a necklace with a sparrow on it. It was especially cool because I was able to tell her why sparrows are my favorite birds. Reason being that even though they are rather small and seemingly insignificant God says that He sees them and cares for them. No matter how small and insignificant we feel God sees and cares for us.