OUTREACH update

First of all, sorry for the amount of time that has passed without an update! Outreach hasn`t provided many opportunities for long amounts of time to internet access. But I finally got a chance so here goes...
The first 2 and 1/2 weeks in Chiapas were crazy! We did ministry all day everyday. We started out in a big city called Tuxtla doing prison ministry, orphanages, church services, rehab centers...stuff like that. Then we moved to a suburb of San Cristobol where we went into the mountains to the indigenous tribes. That bit was very stretching bcause they didn`t speak Spanish, but their own seperate dialect. So when we did church services, we had to translate from English to Spanish to their language. It was so crazy! But the mountains were beautiful. And everything was so natural and simple. They built their own houses out of wood from trees they cut down and shaped theselves, mud, sticks, and other such things. They made all their own clothes; skirts of sheep hide, handwoven belts and big scarves, and shirts and sweaters that they hand-sow. They also grow all their own crops and raise their own chickens and goats. It was like steppng back in time. But what was the most amazing to me was that they believed in the same God as me even though it was as if we lived in two seperate worlds. The missionaries that brought the gospel to those people and their language had to work very hard. It was so humbling.
After the mountains we went to San Cristobol, a quaint little city known for being filled with European tourists, and not just any European tourists, hippie European tourists. So we did a lot of plaza evangelism and talking to people. That was also a very stretching experience because it was then that you had to be ready to answer some hard questions and love people that think very differently from you.
After San Cristobol we were supposed to go to the jungle but while at a church one day doing ministry, a guy on my team broke 3 ribs during our free time. So he was rushed to the hospital and all that kind of stuff, putting our plans on hold. It actually was really amazing because the day after he broke his ribs, God miraculously healed him. The night he broke his ribs he had been moaning in pain, unable to sit, stand, or move at all really. He had been prayed over multiple times and the last time he said he felt something come over his body, he fainted for a second, then woke back up, stood up and walked back to where we were staying, no pain at all. So that was an incredible testimony for our team.
So instead of the jungle, we went to our next location, Oaxaca (specifically Puerto Escondido). It was very different from Chiapas. For one, it was a beach town. Whereas Chiapas had been very cold, Puerto was hot! It was sunny and at least 80 degrees everyday. We stayed really close to the beach and had free time everyday to go enjoy it. We mostly worked with the youth soccer team there, going to Bible studies and their games and practices and working on their brand new field. We also went to some surfer Bible studies, painted an orphanage, and helped clean parts of the city. It was much more chill and laid back which was good for us after working so much in Chiapas, we were all exhausted. But, we still had one more place to go, Mexico City.
Which brings me to now. We`re in mexico City for about 2 weeks. We`ll be doing a lot of evangelism, a lot of park ministry, a lot of dramas, a lot of speaking, much like Chiapas but different because Mexico City is a completely different place. An entirely different ball game, if you will. We`re all excited to do it and excited to be done because when we return to Mazatlan, we have another part of outreach but at "home". We`ll be working in a huge week-long celebration called carnaval. It will be lots of work but lots of fun as well. We can`t wait to get back!
That`s my outreach update. I hope to write in more detail later!