Dental Outreach Team in Mexico

We arrived in San Antonio de las Minas on Sunday just as church had started. And since we were traveling with the new Mexican citizen "Lucas" our dog, we had to decide whether to hang out in the car or drag the dog up the hill to the church. Needless to say, Lucas spent the morning in the children's sunday school roaming up and down and around all the kids. He was in heaven! Now the hard part, finding Lucas a good home. Praise the Lord, Lucas is now living his new Mexican life at a Christian Men's Rehab Ranch "Rancho Limonero" where he is roaming free in a ranch with many of the men there who constantly love on him. I know he will make their lives at the ranch very entertaining. We will miss him but know that he is in the best place he can be. perhaps his purpose was to be a therapeutic dog! Monica has been hanging out with Amy and the gang. One of our friends got poison ivy while trying to jump off a rock into the creek. It's pretty gruesome looking! Although it has been very entertaining making fun of him. lol! On Monday I joined Monica and Andy on a dental outreach in the ejido Carmen Serdan. This dental team is amazing. I am in awe of their hearts for Jesus and display of that love through their pratical dental ministry. They have been coming down to Mexico for over 20 years and this was the first year they had been to Carmen Serdan. The past 3 days have been filled with traveling down 1 hour away and spending the whole day with the team and people of the town. When we are not translating, we are building relationships with the kids in the school (where the clinic is held), and most importantly sharing Christ with them. In the last 3 days we have seen about 10 people accept Christ and gave out many bibles. Some kids and adults had never heard of Jesus (amazing!) and thankfully we were able to share with them. Tomorrow will be our last day there and I know it will be hard bc we have become very fond of the people of this town - especially the kids. They are very generous and live very tranquil lives in this beautiful wine country valley. My most biggest RESPECT for all the doctors, hygienist, & assistants on this trip. Though the days are tiring, it's a good tired. And tomorrow we will do it all over again. The plan is to return back to the states on Monday morning --we shall see...