¡Hola mi amigos!
Today was my first day at Horizonte for Sunday church. It was really cool to join with this congregation on the other side of the world and worship God! There is more than 300 people who attend Horizonte so it´s a bit bigger than good old Balwyn. The service went for almost 2 hours, with lots of joyful singing at the beginning and then the message from Martin Macedo the pastor. After the message was announcements and then it wrapped up. We had coffee after the service and I got to meet some of the people from the church.
After church I went to Lluvia´s family´s house for lunch. We had molè which is like a mix of chillies and chocolate and some other things (a sauce) over turkey and served with rice and tortillas. Have I mentioned that just about everything is served with tortilla´s here?! Tortillas are very versitile, they can wrap up your food, they can be rolled and used as an eating implement, they can be ripped up and used as a spoon... the list goes on!
Also, I should use this opportunity to explain how meals work here... there´s breakfast, lunch and dinner, but the times are different. Breakfast is BIG! We almost always have eggs, beans, tortillas and sometimes cereal. We eat that usually around maybe 9:30am. Lunch is also BIG - it´s the main meal of the day, so we eat that between 2pm and 4pm in the afternoon. Mostly everyone in the family will come home for lunch if they don´t work in like a food service job, so shops etc. close for at least an hour in the afternoon. Later in the evening, we have supper which is supposed to be smaller, but is usually also quite substantial! We eat supper around 8:30 or 9pm... although when I work en la tarde at Global Grounds I eat supper about 10:30pm.
Tomorrow I have my day with God - so looking forward to spending some quality time studying the bible and praying. I have been reading from John 15 about remaining in Christ and bearing fruit - so that´s what I want to be doing especially as I study.
Love to all at home. Luggage still missing, but I will send them a list of all that is in there along with the associated values, and they should compensate me (or at least seeing the value I think may make them look harder!!!).
Buen dìas!
Phil
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4 comments:
So DrumFill might be putting on a bit of weight soon ey??? ;)
Are you going to be able to keep up the running while there?
Naki is listening to Hillsong - Lord we come in Ukarumpa, PNG
Philthy!! Nice site bro... although I wouldn't expect anything else from a man of your quality!
Looking forward to keeping up with your adventures (fewer car crashes please - not good for the 'ol ticker).
And with all those eggs for brekky you'll be almost as ripped as Manny and Robbie by the time you get back!!
The Wedding Man in Mexico!!!!! Olivia (small cute 6 year old) is very excited that you are in Mexico. Had to look you up on the globe she got for xmas. She wants to know if you have had Taco's yet?? Take care Sally & Olivia (QLD)
Hey Sally! Good to hear from you. Let Olivia know that I have had tacos here, but they´re a little bit different to the tacos we have in Australia. They use tortillas to wrap up the food, but the tortillas are usually soft (but can also be fried to make them crunchy). I´ll try and take a picture of one at some stage and put it on my blog.
Phil
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