Today started again at the leisurely time of 9:15, which in
Mexico time really means 9:30. We
returned to the worksite after a delicious breakfast at Café Wiggs and were
promptly informed that Guillermo would be taking us on a one hour tour of
Zihuatanejo and Ixtapa (the neighboring city) in two separate groups. Remember
that number. One hour. Got it? After the first group got back from the three
hour tour, it was time for lunch. Yes, the one hour tour ended up being around
two hours longer, and it was all worth it. We saw incredible views of the city
and bay, Guillermo and Jennie’s home (along with their two birds, four dogs,
and tejon, which was basically a long snouted raccoon that climbed like a
monkey), and a boardwalk type place where we could look at iguanas and
alligators. Fortunately, because we had gotten so much work on day one of
construction, group one’s prolonged absence wasn’t much of a problem as there
wasn’t a whole lot to do. 
When the work day was done we headed back to the hotel for a
siesta, filled with more swimming and napping, and ending with our daily
devotion time before heading to dinner. Today’s message was about Unity, which
is relevant here in our team as we work with each other and another culture,
and back home with all the shootings that have occurred recently. Please pray
for the Lord to bring healing to our country, and for people to have humility
(which was yesterday’s devotion topic) and take time to try and understand each
other, and the hurt that so many are feeling. Meeting adjourned, we headed back
to the restaurant we ate at last night for round two, this time without
Guillermo and Jennie as our guide. Plates clean and complimentary mints
freshening our breath, we headed to where the puppet show would be happening.
Tonight was our first opportunity to participate in Vida
Nueva’s puppet evangelistic puppet ministry. One of the families in the church
even invited their neighbors to come see a puppet show at 8 p.m. tonight. Yesterday’s
training in how to make balloon animals came in handy because for half an hour
before tonight’s puppet show, we helped the puppet team to blow up balloons and
twist them into animals, in front of the gathering crowd. We had two teams pass
out a simple two question survey to the adults within earshot of the puppet
show (which was amplified over a loud speaker). Pastor Nate began praying for
these two teams as the puppet show started. Tom and Megan handed out surveys to
adults across the street from the puppet show and to a group of women listening
in from the balcony of an adjacent apartment building. Mike and Ron handed out
surveys to the adults in the audience. After about ten minutes we returned to
those adults to pick up their surveys. Many of the adults surveyed indicated
that they would like to have someone from the church visit them to tell them
more about the gospel presentation that they heard during the puppet show.
Please pray that the members at Vida Nueva will follow up with visits to these
interested adults.
Being that tomorrow is Saturday, we are not working as long because that is what is normal in this culture. We will end the day with another puppet show. Please continue to pray for safety for the team, those who heard the gospel tonight, and those who will hear it tomorrow night.
(General Quackington was in 3 pictures yesterday. Did you find them all? He's only in one today-hint-in his natural environment)
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