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Hiking in Snow, Teaching in Acapulco

happy to be in snow

We saw that there was snow on the volcano and decided it would be fun to experience a little snow before winter disappeared. Driving up the side of the volcano, the police stopped us saying, "For your own safety you may go no further." They were being a little over protective... there was only about 3/4 of an inch of snow.

"El Nevado" volcano of Toluca

We decided to hike. It started out as a little adventure, but after getting into some untracked snow, we were hooked. We reached the summit, descended into the crater and past the 2 lakes inside and then decided to try an alternate decent on the northwest face.

After descending through a 30-minute blizzard of skin stinging pellet-like snow, we found ourselves in a beautiful area just below the tree line. We had been hiking for 4 1/2 hours at this point but were still exuberant at the beauty around us.

cowboy's shackThen we got lost, asked a cowboy who lived in a wooden shack for directions, and walked 1 1/2 hours more until we found our way back to a road where we hitched as ride to where we'd parked our car 6 hours before. Today we ache just about everywhere. But it was worth it.

To see some fantastic pictures from this little adventure please click here and when you're there take a look at some of our other photo albums plus 4 years worth of funny stories. We maintain these pages so that you can feel a bit more a part of our lives. And of course, we always love receiving notes from friends <hint hint>


Practicing What We Preach
(not us... them)

We have 8 days of youth leaders' training over the next 3 weeks. I'd complain about how exhausting it's going to be… but I don't think you'd have much sympathy for me considering that 4 days of the training will take place in Acapulco (smile)

Jr. high kids from our church
Kids from our church
[Annette is at 5 o'clock - mouth open)

Along with our team of Mexican youth ministry experts, we have been invited by all the Presbyterian churches in the Acapulco area - about 12 - to train their pastors, elders and youth leaders in the "how and why" of youth ministry. It's going to be fun because everything we teach will be put into practice.

How can we be so confident? For this reason… on the last night of the conference there will be a city wide youth event and those who have attended our seminars will be in charge of planning and leading it. This way our conference attendees will be required to incorporate what we teach them throughout the week into the event's plans. Let's hope it's not a total flop (smile)

Tim, on a good day
Tim

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