Viva las Mexico!

Hello Friends,

Whew! What a day! I am sorry for not being consistent in my blogging. I would wager to say that I will probably not be blogging everyday, so look on fb for me to tell you when the next blog post has happened :-). Yesterday started out with Uncle Tom and I going around to local businesses and asking if they would like to participate in our upcoming "Love the City" celebration. We got a few leads but that is about it. For lunch we went to the cool Chicago hot dog place. I ended up getting a burger and it was messy! My hands have finally stopped smelling like mustard haha. We met a guy there that is actually from AR! Small world.

Today, we went to the Hispanic festival at Fremont street. I was excited to go because I have always wanted to go to Fremont street. If you watch the original CSI, it is actually the old Las Vegas strip and has a HUGE tv screen over it. It was also awesome to dive into another culture for a day. Not only was I the minority, But being that mexican people are short, I was also the tallest! It was great to be able to look over everyone and feel like a giant for a few hours. While there, I tried some type of food that Aunt Cynthia would often eat in South America, it was very good! It was a bagel like bread with meat in the middle and sause that was like ketchup and mayo mixed. To wash it down, I was offered some Watermelon Juice. What I was going to be some juice with watermelon flavoring actually turned out the be a cup full of straight up watermelon juice. I actually liked it! After this we decided to go down the rest of the street and see the different things. It was cool to see all the neon signs of old. After we did this and I second hand smoked a couple of packs, We went to see some more hispanic stuff. Another cool thing that happened was that Uncle and Aunt met some people that were from Bolivia! They talked for a while and then the lady turned to me and started talking. All I could say was " Uh.........No Habla Espanol" but she kept right on talking. Terribly nice lady, no idea what she told me haha.

Today was fun and I am excited to meet with the church body tomorrow and see how they do worship! Once again, Thank you all for all the prayers and taking time out of your day to read this, That is very special to me. Tomorrow is going to be the first day with the refugees so be praying for that!

Much love,

Hayden