Furniture.

Mexico, oh Mexico. We officially have the majority of our furniture in our house. We have a couch, a table with chairs, a shelf (that we put together ourselves. We say it has personality since we didn't do it right and it's kind of lopsided... but it holds stuff), and matresses. The matress store said they were going to deliver our stuff last Wednesday. They called last Wednesday and said they won't be here until this Wednesday. Last night (Saturday) they called and said our matresses will be there in a half hour. It's a good thing I wasn't time-oriented in the States otherwise this could be frustrating. Instead, it's just kind of funny. I put pictures up of the house and of lots of other stuff.

This was kind of an interesting week. Monday was a holiday in Mexico so we had the day off because the universities had it off too. Thursday was Thanksgiving and, of course, being on a team with nearly all Americans, we celebrated. There were about 45 of us at the house that I lived in before our apartment was ready. It was a lot of fun. Families from all over the place were there.

This last week, I gave another team talk on being competent. At the end we made team goals and how they're going to achieve them. They'll be taped up on the wall everyday for practice so they can remember what they're working towards and how they're going to work for it. Tomorrow we're going to talk about being prepared.

On Friday, Jolita (one of my co-workers from Lithuania) and I met with the captain of the volleyball team at UDLAP. She's starting to give some of the team talks because she wants to start taking more of a leadership role. Her team responds to her really well. We met with her in the morning before practice and had a short devo, reviewed her talk, and prayed with her. Her talk went really well!!

The Bible study with the soccer team, that I talked about in one of the earlier blogs, started on Wednesday. There was 1 girl from the UDLAP soccer team that went and it went well! It's kind of a weird time right now because finals are coming up next week and the week after, the soccer girls are leaving to Mexico City for a tournament next week, and the semester ends in the next couple weeks. Schedules are weird so it's hard for a lot of the athletes to fit anything else on their plate right now. We're praising for the one though!!! Next semester it should be easier for more to make it.

Please keep our other roommate, Erica, in your prayers. She's raising support and will hopefully be here in January if everything comes in. Also, her aunt is struggling with cancer right now. Please pray for healing and for comfort for her family.

Love you guys!