September 29, 2017

So, what does this look like to you?

It's wheat grass!  Another experiment.  Supposed to be very healthy!  He's also sprouting wheat.  It's for salads, etc.  Dad read that sprouted wheat has 1200 times the nutrient value than the wheat kernel.  We had his sprouts on our salad last night and it was chewy and yummy.

These are his sprouts. 

September 24, 2017

These two ladies are the reason I came on my mission!  Both are from Pinotepa and we saw them today while visiting this area.  As soon as conference was over they both made a beeline for dad and I to tell us about their successful businesses.  Hermana Eugenia made enough profits to buy an oven (instead of using her neighbor's).  The other, Hermana Mayra, calls me mommy Meadows.  Both have taught their daughters to bake also, so we have the second generation started in business also!!!  It's pretty exciting for us to see how excited and happy they are about their successful businesses.

Hermana Mayra is expecting her sons mission call any day.  She can now support him on his mission with her bakery business!  By the way, missionaries from Mexico now have to pay their own mission costs, all of it, so now that family had a way to do it.  Way cool.

September 19, 2017

Yesterday we had an opportunity to go to a little Pueblo not far from here to help with the relief efforts with the rest of our mission.  This video is what is left of the Bishop's home in Jujutla.  He lost two family members in the collapse of their home.
They were killed in the collapse.  Only one of his children was able to get out before it completely collapsed.

September 19, 2017

Earthquake, 5.4 in Chiapas and 4.9 in Oaxaca today.

Our house shook pretty hard today.  That was a bit frightening.

Lots of damage in Cuernavaca.  It's chaos here.  We're in Cuernavaca but we're trying to get to a class in Tepoztlan, a little north of us.  Apparently downtown Cuernavaca buildings are damaged and everyone is trying to get out of there.  People everywhere on the streets.  I think they're afraid of their rickety houses.

We were told that an overpass on the freeway near us that was under construction partially collapsed, freeway south is closed.

Later that night:

We had a class tonight in a nearby town which took us 2.5 hours to get to!  The roads in the direction of the town were fine but when we got there the power was still out and so we turned around and came home. 

September 16, 2017

We're just finding out from president Avila how damaging hurricane Max was on Friday for our friends in Acapulco and the Pinotepa area.  Bridges and roads are wiped out and they are trying now to get food and supplies to our members in a tiny Pueblo along the coast.  We were in Acapulco last weekend when the earthquake hit further south.  So in one week Mexico has had an earthquake, hurricane Max with a direct hit to Acapulco, and hurricane Norma moving toward Los Cabos on the peninsula.  Rain from remnants of Harvey and Katia.  We have been blessed to keep out of harms way.  Some of what we are teaching is the importance of emergency preparedness in case of hurricanes or earthquakes and they kind of blow it off...unfortunately experience can teach some hard lessons.

September 15, 2017

OK, it's not a salmon and I didn't have to work for 15 minutes to reel it in, but it's one of the biggest cauliflowers I've ever seen!  This is from the mercado uptown

September 10, 2017

We were told today in church that some members were killed in the earthquake and many homes lost or damaged.  Stake president lost his home.  This is in Juchitlan where it was the worst.

September 8, 2017

Earthquake hits central Mexico, 8.1

We traveled to Acapulco last night kind of late, were dead tired, and apparently slept right through it.  I'm sure our friends in Pinotepa felt it.

From the maps of places affected it looks like Guatemala got hit also, many towns we visited and have friends in are nothing but rubble now.

The poorer the people the worse it is for them because their homes are put together with mud adobe and just crumble.

Where we live we get all the rain from the hurricanes on both the Atlantic and Pacific sides, so it's been raining cats and dogs for two weeks, hurricane Harvey, a tropical depression that moved up the Baja and Katia, and then the earthquake this morning.  The cartel is everywhere we travel.  We are definitely in the war zone!

September 5, 2017

Cameron is home from his mission!

September 02, 2017

This is dad's buddy who really does live on the street, and rain or shine had on this coat. He sleeps on the cardboard and has a blanket and uses cardboard to keep the rain off. He goes up and down the street picking up trash so dad gives him a few pesos and "pays" him for doing it, and thanks him for keeping our neighborhood clean. Today we were on our way home from Acapulco from a bread class there, happened to have some leftover bread and he chowed down on it!

This is his home.  The photo is from a couple weeks ago, but he looks the same.