Day 6 in Mexico

Life has not always been easy.  Remedios sent money to buy her mother a TV.  I bought the TV last Friday, tried to install it, found that it got no channels and that the connection for video games was bad.  The next day I bought an antennae, spent several hours putting it together only to find it did not rotate after it was all installed.  I was totally worn out.  I decided that the enemy could win all the battles he wanted to – except the important ones.  Take it down; take it back (without a receipt); take TV back to WalMart in Querétaro; feared the worst – got the best.  No problem at WalMart and no problem at the tiny store that didn’t give me a receipt.  Hopefully everything will work when I get back to Negritas in a couple of days.

Speaking of the next couple days, Jerilyn and I are spending a few in Querétaro with Jesús and Pueblito Escobar.  Jesús is Lupe’s cousin and attended our church in Jefferson for several years as well as all our outreaches.  He also attended my leadership training at church with Lupe and Juan.

We were going to visit Jesús and Pueblito after out trip to Oaxaca but the need to water Lupe’s fields postponed that a few days so we moved up our trip to Querétaro.  I helped Lupe water this morning for a few hours and became TOTALLY exhausted.  No exercise for three months coupled with 7300 feet altitude and being now over 58 years old all worked together to take a heavy toll on my poor little old body.

Pray for a good visit with Jesús and Pueblito.

Pray for a great trip to Oaxaca.

Pray for an awesome harvest of corn, beans, and squash. (You can see them all in the pictures.)

 

Watering is very hard work!  The crop is on a hill.  We started water running on the up hill side and directed it with little dams.  Because it was running at a good clip down hill in each row we had to put little dams all along the way.  We let it run to the end of the row and then stopped it with a dam.  Then we had to stop it farther up with another little dam as the water got to the top of the previous dam.  Lots of emergencies as water would breach the row and threaten to wash out the whole way down the hill!  Pray for rain!  It takes 3 or 4 days to water and they have to do it every week it does not rain.  Also, if it does not rain they will run out of water in the little reservoir they have.