Mission in La Mision: Mission Sinaloa

Here are the events of our trip. We are going to be blogging a lot about this trip. We want to write it down so that we can look back on it and process through telling our story.

November 5th. 4:30am

Woke up.

People from the church came to the church to send us off.

Were on the road by around 6am.

Erin and I were in the back seat of a pick up truck with Helio. Three people up front. I don't know if I am going to survive.

Stopped at lots of gas stations. All of them are Pemex. Owned by the government. Saw a vikings hat. It was spelled VICKINGS. Didn't buy it. 100 pesos.

Had tamales at one of the stops.
Stopped and slept from midnight to 3am.

November 6th.

29 people, 4 vehicles, 28 hours in vehicle. And there we were in Sinaloa.

Arrived in Sinaloa at about 1pm. Stopped at a truck stop so we could all shower.

Got to the church at 2:30pm. Hot. Very hot.

Greeted by many people from the church.

Set up our tent. We were in church clothes. Shouldn't have been.

Went into town to see the sights.

Went to bed.

November 7th.
Woke up to a rooster at 5am that sounded like it was on my face. Everyone wanted to eat it for dinner.

Went to 1st work site.

A foundation was dug. But they kept changing their minds. Everytime someone came by, they told us a different way to do things. Many people their knew exactly what they were doing. Many had different ideas as to what WE were doing collectively.