Trip to Chiapas

Today I'm back in Mexico City. Me and Lupita have been on a trip down to her home town San Cristobal where she showed me around. We visited some of her friends, family, her pastor and her church. We stayed with her uncle and aunt who were incredible welcomming and good to us. Her uncle jokes alot, although with a lot of the jokes i needed help from lupita understanding, but i learned some things like which fruits to use when having diarea, and i don't mean to eat :)

Lupita's church, they make me feel tall :) and they were really
nice to me.

Trip to Palenque

Our trip was really good, and i got to see a lot of San Cristobal, i also got to see Palenque which is a collection of different Mayan pyramids and buildings, it was really exciting, and beautiful, and it was worth the 5 hour bumpy bus ride each way. On the way we also visited 2 different waterfalls that were really nice. There are some pictures further down.

Christians and Catholics

Picture from our trip to Palenque

Lupita and i making "danish" food for her aunt and uncle,
Before we baked the bread we had to remove around 30
lids stored in the oven, Mexicans don't really use ovens.

Last Saturday Lupita and i went to a christian conference, with worship and a speaker,. In the beginning we were afraid we were way too late, because we came 40 minutes after it should have started, but when we came they still hadn't started, this phenomenon is called "Mexican time" :)

The speaker, who after 1½ hour of talking said that he was just about to finish his intro and start preaching, was good. He talked about how that we sometimes connect being Christians with just being in the church, but he said how being outside, working, doing business can be just as "holy" and that we shouldn't be confined within the church walls. The sad thing was that in the end of the preaching he talked about Catholics, and he like most protestant Mexicans see Catholicism as a whole other religion, that needs to be converted to Christians.

Lupita's Aunt and uncle are Catholics and one night after this preaching we had a long conversation with them about faith, Lupita did most of the talking though :) and i really think they needed to hear our point of view of how Protestantism and Catholicism isn't 2 different religions, and how that we believe that it's the belief in Jesus as savior and nothing else that saves.

Getting ready to join the team!

Now we're back in Mexico City and we're staying at Lupita's parrents at the moment. We plan to join up with the team Sunday or Monday depending on what fits best with everything. We are excited to get started now that we have had some time to "relax" if i can call it that :)

Lupita and I infront of the 2nd waterfall. We asked a lady to take a photo of us, but her boyfriend offered to take it. This guy had minutes before shocked most visitors at the waterfall that day by doing different poses completely nude in front of the waterfall, afterwards i offered to take some photoes of him and his girlfriend, although this time he had clothes on. A few days later we ran into them both in San Cristobal where we said hi again, we now refer to him as "the nude guy" :)

Here are some of the ruins in Palenque, it is really cool how they are in the middle of the jungle in Chiapas. A jungle that i recently read is one of the places with the biggest biodiversity on the planet. Sadly the biggest ruin was closed for entry because of concerns about crazy people with reference to December 2012 where the Mayan calendar runs out of days. The place That was closed was the big ruin in the left side of the picture, where you from the top can take stairs all the way to the bottom where there is a tomb. Could have been a cool experience, but i don't think it's for people who don't like small spaces

A bad picture of a huge protest that blocked our way this Wednesday when Lupita and I went to Tuxla, the capital of Chiapas. We went to get her school papers from the university that she got into, but bailed in favor of YWAM, luckily we found people in the same situation and shared a taxi the rest of the way to Tuxla, where the busses found other routes back. For one scecond we feared that we wouldn't be able to make it back to San Cristobal before our bus to Mexico City left at 19.30, but we did :)