Tico Tuesday, September 22nd

At last, here you have it! A picture of Ann and me. We are sporting new chairs we bought off the side of the road (where else do you buy cheap chairs?) for the café of the Centro Latino de Movilización (CLM), which is now open! That's exciting!

Tomorrow is our big day! Please pray for a good night's rest for Ann and me and for a good day of mission coach training with our 15ish participants tomorrow. We are armed with dynamic activities, metaphors, small group and individual reflection times, and fun visual aids!
Changing topics: please watch this video! It does an amazing job portraying Mexico City in just over 2 minutes. It will give you quite a taste of what my life has been like over the past few months. It shows the most famous buildings & landmarks and includes many of the noises I hear every day. It starts with the haunting voice that wanders each neighborhood daily asking for mattresses, fridges, microwaves or any other piece you might want to sell. Listen also for those bells I hear every day. That means the trash truck is coming! Can you pick out the man selling the tamales from Oaxaca? Or the shouts of ¡Viva! from Independence Day? What about that calmer version of dreadful sweet potato cart whistle? City life sure is noisy! And I thought the car alarms and bus brakes in Costa Rica were bad! Well, they are, but I'll take them over the sweet potato whistle any day!
Thank you so much for your prayers for this mission coach training. I look at it all and just see God's grace in helping us develop the materials for the future mission coach coordinator, the mission coaches, and the volunteers that the coaches with work with in the CLM.
God's peace and joy be with you,
Carrie