Back home

Well its been a couple of weeks since I've been back and it's like of a surreal feeling. I made it home safe and sound that Saturday, I wasn't home long though. I was home long enough to grab some dinner and and my things and I was off to school for some obligations I have for Student Senate.

Thinking back to this trip I realized that there were many things that were different about it from my experiences in Honduras. I guess it would be naive of me to think that everywhere south of the border is the same. Mexico if feel is more civilized in many ways than Honduras; of course there are a few exceptions here and there.

My living arrangements were also different. In Honduras I stayed in the country in a very Americanized enviorment. In Saltillo we where in a city of over 2 million people. It was good to get a different perspective of mission work in a completely different field. Better yet it was good to get a perspective from a single missionary.

In general, I feel like there was just not enough time to get the full experience of Saltillo and all that mission work involves there. Then again, I would probably feel that way if I spent an entire year there.

Things I wont miss:

• Spicy food and the fact that everything it seemed have peppers on it or in it.
• The fact that whenever I was at a restaurant and asked for "sin cebolla" which means no onions, they still managed to put the onions on it.
• The numerous speed bumps everywhere
• Traveling in Saltillo in general. They simply don't know how to drive. And also the fact that they didn't have one standard place to put a stop sign, you often had to search all for corners to see if you had a stop sign that was directed at you.
• Our frozen pipes.
• The fact that I filled so many wholes and cracks in the walls of the room that I painted that I became "crack crazy."
  

Things I will miss:

• Chrissy's craziness. By this I mean her fun loving attitude and her goofiness. She was lots of fun and I'm so glad I got to get to know her.
• The Pastor's family who I spent a lot of time with.
• The colors of the houses and the decorative iron gates and bars on the windows.
• The warm weather
• The beautiful mountains that surround the city
• The beautiful blue sky and the white puffy clouds
• Getting to try new things, like cactus for dinner
• The adorable kids at the village the mission works with
• The sound of Spanish spoken everywhere
  
• The people.