ok. I am going to give this a try. Our own personal website doesn't seem to get updated and I really have no clue about working on websites so maybe this will work.
Today is September the first and I guess it is approaching fall back in the North where I used to live!!
It is a very warm day in Zihuatanejo and in many ways we are still playing catchup with work that has been waiting for us since our trip to the North.
Yesterday I spent several hours waiting at the IFE where I will get a credencial electoral which is used all the time here as identification since it has one's photo on it. Actually the only reason I can have one is that I am now a Mexican as well as a Canadian thanks to the birth registration of my father, Ths should simplify my life considerably and I can now participate in things that as a foreigner I could not before. I can buy land or a house (if I had the money!) without all the legal requirements and trusts required of foreigners. I can vote!! Next step is the passport and then I will truly be a Canadian/Mexican
Waiting in line is a part of Mexican life here. No matter what it is there is a wait involved. In fact on entering IFE they told me to come back and make an appointment tomorrow!! However in Mexico it helps to know people who can make the process simpler and thus it was that instead of lining up at 6:30 a.m. for an office that opens at 9 a.m. I was able to wait at 1:30 p.m. in a very cold airconditioned room along with a number of others till my name was called. Still about a 3 hour wait.
I went to the hospital this a.m. which I generally do on Tuesdays and Fridays. Today there was a 55 year old woman dying of kidney failure and another woman of 66 dying of diabetic complications. It is an opportunity mostly to be a comfort to families and to encourage them to speak to their loved one and to seek peace with God now in order to have peace for eternity. Without exception the families have been grateful for someone to come along side of them and help them to make some sense out of a very heart breaking situation.
There was a young teen in emergency today who had been to the talks we give and she was so happy to see me even though her baby is a bit yellow right now!
Our prayer letter went out today and so my list of things to get done is almost finished.
Ron is preparing for this month's classes in geography/archeology at the seminary and today I have to complete yet a short talk for our pregnant teens at the hospital. At this point in time it is a weekly task for me but generally its a shared ministry that at least two other women participate in. This particular year is interesting because the staff makes a point of sitting and listening as well. Not to judge us but to learn!! They love it! God is good.
well I want this to be a bit of my day and it is an experiment so we'll see if it works!
P.S> the photo is my Grandma Hernandez and myself a number of years ago!
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