Phil, Marianne Paula and I headed to Mas Agua north of Mexico city while the other van went to Garcia Mexico outside of Monterrey and met up with Pastor Joel and Celebrated 10 students graduating from bible school.
We thought it best to not join in large groups since I was recovering from Covid and didn't want to infect anyone. We stopped in Ramos Arizpe and had lunch with Gator before driving to San Louis Potosi for the night. We drove to Jorge and Selena church in Masahua and unloaded backpacks, blankets, coats and soccer balls for them to give out.
We had lunch with them and headed to the state of Micheocan to catch a glimpse of the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary 🦋. We met a man who takes people to see the butterflies. Renaldo said there wasn't enough time to make the trip up the mountain before dark so he took us to town where we found a nice little hotel with a restaurant. We gave out bibles, and backpacks to all the employees.
Renaldo came back in the morning and we headed back up the mountain and decided to take the horse back tour instead of walking. A great decision 👏. It was cloudy and chilly and the Butterflys weren't very active. We saw some flying around but most were still in thier huge nests clinging to each other to stay warm. Oh well, at least we saw them.
On the way back, we stopped to rest and while resting, Renaldo wanted to pray to accept Christ as savior. Paula had been sharing the gospel with him and the Holy Spirit moved in his heart ❤️. A divine appointment was created by God. We dropped Renaldo off and headed towards Puebla.
We arrived in Puebla just before dark and the hotel made us supper. The next day Pastor Jose came to the hotel and took us downtown where we bought another 100 soccer balls and 100 dolls for April's outreach in Chiapas. We loaded those into Joses car along with 100 bibles, hundreds of beanie baby's, socks, and other things. We said goodbye to Jose and headed to the town where onyx is mined, and made into awesome things. Phil bought a bunch of bowls and Paula bought a couple lamps. We met Nano and Marriel for supper in downtown Puebla. They are getting married in July and Phil and Marianne wanted to pay for the wedding 💑. They were in tears as Phil handed them the money.
We arrived back at the hotel and all the employees were called together to come to our van and we gave them all bibles and blankets and coats and toys fir thier kids.
We headed towards home the next morning. Phil and Paula were both feeling a little sick and tested positive the next day. Mild symptoms were all they had. We made it home Thursday afternoon. Phil and Marianne headed back to Oklahoma.
We had a good quick trip and it was good to see the Pastors after such a long time.
