Domingo

Buenos Dias!!

Es una manana muy bonita en Mazatlan!  Yesterday was cloudy, foggy and damp.  This morning, the sun is shining brightly and the sky is crystal blue!!  I am excited to go and worship in La Nueva Vida, the church we'll be visiting this morning.

We are back at Rico's for the delicious coffee, the great service, and the free internet.  Yesterday's food was amazing.  The trip to "Mega," the grocery store, was a success, and we do have food at "home" for breakfast, but I wanted to come and up-date you this morning.  Thank you for checking up on us.
 So, "Mega" is a very modern grocery store.  It had everything we needed and wanted (except sunglasses... I forgot mine at home since I hadn't seen the sun in weeks).  The weirdest thing about it was that you had to ride an escalator to get to the store part, but the escalator didn't have "steps," it was just flat.  We figured out on our ride down why it was like that.  Of course, we needed to take our carts of groceries down to the parking lot - so the carts rode on the escalator, which was magnetic - the cart wheels just stuck to it.  We took a red truck taxi back to the house (the back is outfitted with high sides and benches so that several people (six of us and our groceries) could ride together.

The majority of the day, and the best part of the day, was spent with Rick - a man who retired from teaching special education and being a principal, then came to Mazatlan to start an orphanage for children with special needs.  We learned so much from him about orphanages and abandoned children children in Mazatlan.  For me, personally, it was so interesting to learn about Mexican children with special needs.  As you can imagine, they have no place to go and no one to care for them.  Rick and his wife are doing something that no one else in the country is doing.  They get calls from all over Mexico about children with special needs who have been abandoned and need a home.  I look forward to telling you some of these children's stories.

This morning we are off to worship at La Nueva Vida, and then we will have comida with some of the families from the church.  I am looking forward to it very much!!

Until next time - hasta luego.