Goodbye!
 

Well, I am leaving tomorrow morning. The flight leaves at 6am. I'll be spending the rest of the day packing and visiting with my family before I leave, but I wanted to stop in and say goodbye here as well. I'll post LOTS of pictures when I get back! :)

Angie, have a safe trip! Enjoy yourself, and go do all the things you plan to do.
Look after yourselves, and stay safe!
Will be here when you return ;)

Have a wonderful time, we will miss you..Have a safe trip.....

Have a great time!!!

Enjoy! We'll miss you. Have a safe trip and pictures, pictures, and more pictures.

Judy

I hope that you have a wonderful time and take lots of pictures!!! We'll miss you. Make sure that you keep yourself safe!!

Off ya go then! I'm so happy for you. I know you will have a blast! Make sure you come back now!!! Can't wait to hear all about it!

I just wanted to let you guys know that we made it safely. We'll be here in the nice part of Mexico until Friday and after that we'll be in a very poor town and I won't have access to internet.

We had a VERY interesting day traveling and ended up with two free round trip tickets to anywhere in the US, Latin America, the Carribbean, or Mexico. Any suggestions where we should go??

I'll update more later, but now I'm going to go eat some Spanish Eggs. :)

Wow! You got free tickets to anywhere in the U.S. and a few other places!!!!! That's great, but it also means that you had some major trouble somewhere to get them. You're going to have to let us know what happened. I hope that the rest of your trip goes well.

BTW-I'd go to the Carribbean!

From what I understand the flight was delayed. They waited on a later flight and were compensated with the tickets.
and I agree Carribbean. Take one of the daycruises that stops at some of the different ports.

But Latin America is so exciting. Brazil - can you imagine?

On the other hand, laying on a Caribbean beach - ahhhh!

Angela is in a remote part of Mexico now and has no internet access. I have had one phone call since she has been there. They are really working hard on the church. They have not been feeling too well. The food doesn't seem very clean. I am sure God will bless them for their efforts. Angela can't wait to talk to all of you again.

They are a truly wonderful couple. I'll be praying for their health and stamina so that they can continue their spiritual mission.

Judy

Thank you Judy. They will be back Sunday but will probably be exhausted. You will be hearing from her Sunday night or Monday I'm sure.

Thanks Mom and Traci for keeping everyone updated! :)

The reason we got free tickets was because they overbooked our flight and asked if anyone would be willing to take the next flight two hours later. The later flight went through Cancun and then to Mexico DF (our final destination by plane) rather than going directly to DF. So in total, it added five hours to our travel time. Since we didn't have any concrete plans for the first day, we decided we'd go for it and use our free tickets for our anniversary next year! :)

Oh my, as for Mexico, I have many wonderful stories as well as a few sad ones, memories I will never forget, and friends I will forever treasure. Oh and I have some sore muscles and bruises too. :p

In El Rosario, we constructed footers and put in the foundation for the floors of the new Sunday school rooms. We spent most of the time mixing cement using nothing but a wheel barrel and shovels. This was by far the most demanding physical work I have ever done in my life, but it was well worth it to see how happy it made the members, especially the children.

The children...my children...they adopted me. :) I'll have some pictures to share with you later, but three of the children of the town adopted Brendon and me as their parents. From the first night on, they called us Mamita and Papito (dear mom and dear dad). I have never felt so much love for someone I knew for only a week. I cried when we left (both in Puebla when we left Daniel and Carol and again in El Rosario when we left my children and the teenagers we'd grown so close to).

I will tell you more about the trip when I have pictures to share, but I just wanted to let you know that we made it home safe and sound. :)