Puebla Update #2

(Zander Murry in the pic above as he tries to disguise his excitement about heading to Mexico!)

From Ryan Bader:

We are all here safe and sound, but Sunday certainly was a long day. It began at 3:00 in the morning when I took 10 folks to the computer. After some check in excitement, they made it safely to New York and then to Mexico City. They arrived here at the El Pozo campus house by 5:00, almost perfectly on schedule. They second group took off for the airport around 6:45. Both of those groups made it out of Baltimore and into Dallas safely and as scheduled. That's when the waiting began. Long story short, we finally arrived here at El Pozo at 2:30 in the morning local time (3:30 body time), but still in good spirits.

Yesterday was a great day. The morning was spent in orientation. We experienced many of the things that the Mexican students would take part in during a normal week here at the campus house. It was a great way to be introduced to the ministry and understand what our place in it would be during the week. After lunch, we started working, and the kids did great. We got some prepping a wall to be repainted, others working on putting in a driveway, and still others installing a cabinet, cutting back trees and doing all sorts of other work around the house. Today will be a full day of work and half of our group will go the the orphanage in the afternoon.

The evening was spend in worship, followed by an incredible meal of Mexican tacos. Last night was an interesting cultural experience. We attended Lucha Libra, the Monday night Mexican professional wrestling main event. It was, as we say, quite a hoot. We'll tell you all about it.

Everything's going great. Thanks for the prayers. I'll try to find more time to update again later.