Two Weeks in Mexico

It is well past time for an update here, a month is way too long, but I find as I begin to type, that there are not enough words to communicate my experience here. I guess I must start at the beginning, and follow from there. I arrived with no fanfare, no bribes, and bit of spanish in the fairly western airport of Mexico City on the tenth of October. It is safe to say that after the long summer of doubt and impatience, I breathed my first sigh in many months, I felt at home. We hit the ground running, diving into the food, the people, and the language, with brief respites. Our mentors here were bent on making our first week a true bonding experience with this culture and I am now starting to see the fruit of this. Instead of a hesitantly wading in, we had just enough time to grab a breath of home before we dove headlong, committing ourselves, both hearts and minds to the current of Mexico. We met the english reading groups already in place, experienced a fiesta, toured a small portion of downtown, moved in with our host family, and started language classes all before we knew what had happened. Our schedules have began to get a rythm with language in the mornings at the University of Mexico, meetings and activities with our mentors three or four days a week in the afternoons, and "hang out time" any evening we are free. Today was a day of rest for me and my companero Ben, we went to see the famed painting of Diego Riveras, a national hero of art here in Mexico. My time here has been full but I have been so struck by how straight my path has been made. No hitches, no falls, not one of us has gotten sick yet. It is incredible to see the hand of God moving ahead of us, and clearing the path of all obstacles that would truly impede. I know that so much of this is due to all of you who offer up a prayer from time to time for us, without that support we couldn´t be here. If you could keep my dental health in prayer, I have a wisdom tooth growing in at a bad angle and it has already made contact with the tooth next to it. I am getting surgery to take it out as soon as possible, but please pray that nothin happens until then and that the surgery goes well. Support is still needed, please contact me if you are interested. I will try and post pics at some point, God bless you all.