Curtains finally!

This week we finally got the last of our curtains put up here on the base. They were donated by a friend of the base 2 weeks ago, so now every room have curtains. This might seem like a small thing, but I feel it's an important step to make the base feel more like a home, like our home :)

Just relaxing in a park in Tlahuac close to where Lupita's
family lives. We went there with them to "celebrate"
mothers day.

This morning I was trying to remember what has happened the last few weeks. I feel like time goes fast, and most of the stuff i recollect is our wedding preparations. Lupita and I have started pre-marriage counseling with an American pastor and his Mexican wife, they are an amazing couple, and they don't waste the time with empty talk. They have 10 years of personal experience with what difficulties that are especially prone to cross cultural marriages. The pastor's name is Josh and he has said yes to marry us which we feel really good about.

Other than that we still have our other things here at the base, and during the last few weeks we have as always had lots of things going on.

More life in the base

Lupita's niece Adrianna with her dad (Lupita's brother)

A thing that we didn't expect living here in the center of Mexico City is all the people interested in living with us. These are people who most of them has been in  YWAM and now work/study in Mexico City, but would love a place to live in the center with a community of other Christians. Right now we have 3, but in a few weeks we will have one more. In the beginning we weren't sure how to deal with this because we're a school and not just a place for people to live, but we enjoy the extra life on the base, and the people who are living with us always loves to be a part of many of the things we do when they are free to. (worship, ministry, family night) 

So we see it as a chance to provide a (hopefully good) Christian community for Christians here in Mexico City who has other things to do than being full time in YWAM. 

Getting new contacts

Around 2 weeks ago we visited 2 American girls who works with different ministries here in the city. One of them had 6 years here the other 2 years. They gave us lots of contacts to different projects, and they could tell us a lot of stories, especially about homeless kids on the street since that were one of their focuses.

In the park i also tried jumping with elastics, and wow, it
was fun, but also frightening, especially because the
elastics felt really old.

The 2 girls also told us lots of things about working with street kids, and one story i thought was shocking. It was of how some of the street kids they regularly visited actually weren't sad when they found out they had aids. This was because as they said it would protect them against people wanting to steal their organs. I think it's sad that people have to live in so horrible conditions, and i think all of us as their neighbors (in the Christian sense) ought to help them, or as a absolute minimum use the knowledge of their life and suffering as a catalyst for living a life in thankfulness for the blessings each of us receives every single day. It's hard, but i don't believe it's impossible.

Lupita and I standing at what used to be a lake in the park. After the first big earthquake we had here in Mexico 2 months (Biggest in 7 years) ago all the water disappeared down in the ground. Now there's no way of getting the water back and the 1 - 2 million people who live in this neighborhood will have to live without their lake. To the left of us a lot of boats was stranded that will probably never be used again.

Here is a image for our web page i made Friday afternoon for our evangelising day. This is something started in YWAM and on the 2nd of June people from many different countries will go on the street and make God known. The image is one i took on my outreach of the cathedral in Zocalo where we're going to meet that day.