Missionary Kids and other things - Day 3 in Tepic

At the  mall. 

Friday was a great day. It rained most of the day, and the mountains were socked in with fog for most of the day.  That meant that Clif and Jasson could not fly, and our plans changed as well.

A great bunch of kids! So much fun!

When we got up, Debbie had baked banana bread and made coffee, which we enjoyed before we headed to breakfast at Dave and Olivia's.  After breakfast, I spent some time  updating the blog while Chris and Brenda made cupcakes.  The guys, in the meantime, were busy trying to figure out why we could smell gas.  While we were gone, Dave had left the house closed up, and when we returned the odor was even stronger than before. It wasn't until the end of the day, when they pulled the tank out, that they discovered there was a good sized crack in the very bottom on the back.  Thank the Lord that Tom P discovered where the leak was and it could be dealt. And we mostly thank the Lord that it was discovered before something horrible happened.

Kylie and me

We met the Hunttings at Pizza Hut for lunch, where they turned over the kiddos to us.  Each of us was assigned one child, my assignment was 8 year old Kylie Huntting.  We decided that we were going to have an alphabet scavenger hunt, taking pictures of the things we found in order.  Kylie had a ball running around with my phone snapping pictures here and there.  There was a sort of science, environmental type display set up with pictures of several animals that Kylie took pictures of. We stopped at Starbucks (where the clerk spoke perfect English), and went to the toy store (again, a clerk with perfect English, who, it turns out, grew up in Mesa!) where I bought Kylie a small digi-bird.  I think she had a good time :)

When we gathered back in the food court, we heard everyone's stories about their adventures in picture taking.  Erik and Sean were told not to take pictures, as were Tom K and Noah.. But the rest of us had no problems.  I think it was just one of the guards who wanted to be difficult.  The pet store had a large parrot or macaw who kept people entertained.  While Chris and Haley were there, the parrot decided that he wanted some of Haley's Starbucks, and proceeded to help himself to her straw! 

Back at Hunttings for dinner. The guys were watching the World Series in the man-cave.  :)

Dinner was back at the Hunttings house - marinated grilled steak, wonderful guacamole and salsa, beans, and tres-leche cake that was to die for.  Clif made some coffee that was incredible.  We then heard their testimony and prayer requests and spent time praying for this precious family. The major prayer requests besides favorable weather for flying were for their children. They have the older kids - Sean (15), Haley (12) and Kylie (8).  They asked specifically for prayer for homeschooling, but also for good, Godly friends for the kids.

Today we are going out to the village, and then helping with Awana this afternoon.

More to come…..