I know I already posted about Christmas, but I still want to back up and share life before that.
We officially left Arizona to move to Mexico on December 1st. It was a big job, but I had help and we got the work done and the trailer loaded. It was a super slow trip, as the full trailer bogged down our brakes and we couldn’t go very fast. All in all, it took us 27 hours. Our first stop was in Mesa, AZ where we signed the paperwork to officially close on our house in Buckeye. No turning back now!
We arrived in Mexico and spent the first night with friends. The next day we arrived at our first house and started unloading. We will be in this house till the end of January, and then we move to our long term house.
After being in Mexico just 6 days, we turned right around and left for a family reunion in Colorado! We celebrated Christmas with Nathan’s family, as well as his dad’s 70th birthday. We were up in the mountains and the kids were excited for the snow! We headed back to Cuauhtemoc and got even more snow there!
We discovered that we had some boxes stolen at the boarder crossing in Nathan’s first trailer load. I mentioned the jackets and gifts in the other blog post, but on farther investigation we discovered more missing boxes. These were kitchen and bulk food and bulk herb items. It hurt to see the losses, but it was also good to see God use other people to come behind us and help supply those needs.
We’ve had some trouble getting the money we got from our AZ house into Mexico to give to the seller of the new house we plan to buy. Please pray with us that we can get that worked out in time!
It’s has been a bit of a culture shock coming here. I know I lived in Mexico 12 years, but this place is vastly different from any Mexican culture that I have ever been in. We are living smack in the middle of the Russian Mennonite Community. Everything about their culture is different, and their first 2 languages are high and low German. They may or may not speak English and/or Spanish.
We attended a German Christmas event. It was a unique experience! We have been attending a Spanish speaking church about an hour from town, and it has been good to have that fellowship. Most of what we have seen keeps the different cultures very separate. This church has Russian Mennonite, Mexican and Tarahumara all together. And now Americans as well. We are grateful to have a place to fellowship with other believers until we get a church established here.
The kids have met some neighborhood children and made new friends. They seem to be adjusting quite well to the changes and enjoying life here. The do have their times of sadness and missing home, but that it to be expected. All In all the move and and changes are going well. It will be. Interesting g to see what the days and weeks ahead of us hold!
(We’ve since made a 2nd trip, but I’m saving that for the next blog post.)