On Saturday we went to the market, and huge indoor/outdoor plaza that spanned blocks and was stuffed full of fake Nike's, Levi's, mysterious drinks, and soccer jerseys. Me and Heather ran around the whole place, I picked up some sweet soccer jerseys and she picked up some well needed hand-made blouses and skirts. It was great! And they even had cheap fresh mango's! 
Shown to the right is the typical traffic in Guadalajara.
This was two girls on in the market begging for change. It was very sad to see this next to so many wealthy vendors.
Church on Sunday was definitely and experience. Well in the morning it was 3 hours of straight Spanish, no projector with words, no translator, just passionate Mexicans praising Jesus. It was great to see, but a little hard to participate.
Sunday night was similar, a little more upbeat and American (meaning American songs translated to Spanish) so it was better, but most of all it was great to see them loving it all.
On Monday we painted the ENGAGE office which took longer than expected because apparently we had the wrong paint (oops).
The next day we went to the village (the outskirts of Guadalajara) and did ministry with the kids. This was my favorite day up until that point.
We got to play a ton with the kids, teach them some songs, have a Bible memory verse (all in Spanish, again I don't really understand it).
Afterward we gave them coloring books and candy and toys, they were so thankful!
One little six-year-old girl said that it was the first coloring book she had ever had. It was very hard to leave them.
The last ministry day (Wednesday) we prayer walked around 4 different campuses, none of which had we previously visited save CUCEA. This day started our harder than expected. I was feeling pretty sick at the point again so it was hard to gain the energy to walk and pray on the little food that I could hold.
We saw a lot of interesting things on the campuses including a mountain view in the Art and Arch.'s backyard, and some weird paintings on another campus. We finally came to the Law campus. At the end of the walk we came to this tree we saw something really cool about it.
As you can see the tree is busting through the cement barriers as it grow, the blocks continue to fall apart. The understanding that we felt was that our prayers and time there, along with the other teams, ministries, kids outreaches, church services and the like, were all feeding into the grow that God is doing in that part of Mexico (dubbed the 'black hole of Mexico' as far a Christianity). Even though at times it felt like only 10 days, or small prayers on campuses we knew nothing about or didn't speak the language, God was moving.
Jesus' love is growing in Mexico.
He kind of brought it all together in one short moment. It was just like Him. 
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