Porvenir

We had a great time this weekend in El Porvenir! Everyone left around 2pm Friday afternoon and arrived right around 4ish in Porvenir. Time has a weird way of disappearing when you're down there. Maybe it's strange lack of clocks, or maybe it's just the laid back feel of the town. Whatever it is, it makes for a pretty relaxing weekend. I personally spent some time catching up on some sleep when Dustin and I weren't riding around on the motorcycles. Porvenir is pretty small so most of the roads are dirt which makes for some fun riding!

Saturday evening was the Confra (conference) at the church. It was a big youth event with people coming from all around northern western Mexico! I was impressed to see around 700 people show up. They put a lot of work into decorating the church and setting up displays with various objects from different countries around the world. From what I understand every year this church does a Mes de misiones (month of missions) and they put a lot of time into it. The topic of the youth evening was finding a proper spouse. I did my best to understand the spanish, and I had a pretty good idea of the points they were making. Afterwards they had food and things for sale to go towards missions.

Sunday the students and Ryan and Steph took off around 10:30 in the morning to head back to Baja. Dustin and I decided to hang around for the day and catch the later part of the conference. The second part was more geared for adults, with worship, a big skit, and another speaker. For this portion we donned ear buds and had someone in back translate the speaker for us. Pretty handy! Around 7:30 we left to head back to Baja. It was a cold ride, but fun nonetheless!

Today is back to work in the office, and class for the students!