Summary of a Million Days part 2

Friday Ciela, Madeleine, Marcus and myself went to a new mall they're building to do a bit of shopping and such, but other than that was pretty laid back. Saturday, I finally caught the dreaded cold that Alison had and we cleaned out the pool in the backyard (which we later came to find out had a leak) and had a good game of Mission Risk that night... Madeleine conquered us all. For Sunday we went up to Santiago (1 hr drive) for meeting. It's the assembly where the missionaries James and Nelly Dyck live. They had us over for lunch, but I was quite miserable with my cold and especially in my ears due to the change in elevation. We got home in time for Sunday School (4pm) but I decided it was best to stay home and rest up. Monday nothing too exciting except that we left for El Cora which is about a 1.5hr drive on the most twisty-turny road like, ever! Jason Wahls (another missionary in Tepic) has been having meetings and lets just put it this way to try to put it in perspective: the bathroom itself was an experience! Meeting was held outside under a few mango trees in someones yard and there were dogs and roosters running around our feet all meeting. I really enjoyed it though! Tuesday we kept the oldest of the Dyck kids (there's 4 of them) Levi, who is 4, while the rest of the family went on to Guadalajara for another appointment for Simon (the 2nd oldest). Simon has just been recently diagnosed in having 3 cancerous tumors in one of his eyes and had to have it removed, so this appointment was to have him fitted for a painted eye (not too many blue eyes done down here in Mexico) It looked great though when he got back! There was also ministry meeting that night and before that, we went took care of the kids while Marcus and Alison went out for lunch. Wednesday was the last day before Ciela left so we decided to go downtown one last time and get some amazing 15$ pedicures! We then climbed a big hill on the edge of town called: Cerro de la Cruz (Hill of the Cross) which was quite steep at times, but if little Evelyn could do it, I guess I had no excuse. After that, we came back to the house to play the game that Ciela had brought for the kids called, Cadoo - version of Cranium. I couldn't believe that it was time already for Ciela to go home, but that's what we spent Thursday doing, was taking the 3 hour drive to PV and back to let her catch her flight. Friday, I was in the kitchen for most of the morning, making cinnamon rolls, an egg dish, a pastry thing with lots of strawberries and 4 loaves of bread for morning meeting. Then, us girls went to Freddy's house, a man in the assembly here in Tepic who has a children's work out of his house. He takes out his van to pick up the kids and they all pile in, quite the site to see! It's great for Freddy too because he has Polio so I'm sure it's quite the encouragement to him. After meeting the Wahl girls came over while Alison and Shelley went out to visit a lady. Saturday we went for a buffet brunch at Liverpool (a classy restaurant) and then headed off to another children's work out of Chuy's house. It was the first day for it, but still there were 22 kids out, 3 of which are from assembly homes! After the kids had gone home, Chuy brought out his parrot and I got to hold him! Sunday we went to meeting in Tepic and then had Freddy and his family over for lunch. After, we sat around the table and played Bible Baseball (a bible trivia game). Then went back for Sunday school (I go with the little ones) and Gospel meeting after that. That finally brings us to today, where not much is planned other than helping Sammy with his last few things of school and cleaning up a bit! Hope this brings everyone up to date and it's crazy that I'll be home in like 8 days! Yikes... 6 weeks goes by in a flash, when you're having fun! ;) Take care - love and miss you all!
Emily


Marcus preaching in El Cora (notice the horseshoes holding down the chart).


Simon Dyck .... can you tell which one is his fake eye?