As some of you guys know. Paul Cathey is a Go missionary too. He was serving the Lord in Mexico city and he was going to come and help out in the ministry here in PV.
The funny thing about all this starts at CCNorco when I was planning being a missionary. When I told Pastor Louie about me becoming a missionary in Mexico He told me he wanted me to meet Paul Cathey from Mexico city. I told Louie I would like to meet him but I wanted to serve the Lord near my family in Tepic Nayarit. Couple weeks after Linda Dewsnap from CCNorco ( You know the Maidmoiselle(french) from the church office) told me about Paul Cathey praying about going to Puerto Vallarta and serve the Lord there in CCPV. I felt like the Lord was confirming my coming to PV and also Paul's too.
I seen Paul before in pictures from the wall at CCNorco but when I saw him in Puerto Vallarta I didn't recognize him at all. He started making a conversation as he knew me before and I was just trying to figure out were do I know this guy but when he started mentioned HERMANO and LINDA and BRIAN and LOUIE I knew he was Paul so I started joking back to him. Paul turned out to be a great brother in the Lord and I felt I wasn't the only missionary here in PV and I knew I can learned a lot of stuff from him. His wife was cool too and their daughters were a little bit scared of me I think they still are a little bit but they are great children and I knew God will do great things here in PV.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
The coming of Jonathan
Saludos (greetings),
As you guys already know the work I've been doing in Puerto Vallarta Mexico isn't quite pleasent to me because I never done something like this before. Digging holes, taking loads of trash and getting dirty and smell bad wasn't my idea of ministry at first. Bill came to me one day and said that there was going to come one guy from Switzerland and that he was going to be staying at his house for 6 weeks helping out in the ministry. I was glad to know I could make friends with someone from other country other than the States and Canada. I knew nothing about switzerland and the people there.
Sunday at noon after the service we went to have lunch and Bill went to pick up this new guy to the airport. We were almost done with our food when Bill and Jonathan show up to join us. Bill present Jonathan to the whole group and then we continued eating. I didn't have an oportunity to talk to Jonathan during lunch but once everyone was done me, Jonathan, Bill and his son carpool on Bill's suburban so I talked to him for a little bit. I was really surprise that in Switzerland they speak 4 lenguages: German, french,Italian, switzGerman. When I heard French I decided to try my french and try to speak it. He could'nt understand me but at least he correct me and I was glad I learned something at school.
Next morning as usual I get up early to be at Bill's house at 8:00am so me and JD can go to the mission and work on some more stuff. This time was different because Jonathan was coming also to help out. Me and JD gave a quick tour arround the mission and me and jonathan started digging some more for the water line to go through the yard to the street. I was glad to know I didn't have to dig all by myself. He turned out to be a farmer in his country and he was used to hard work. I felt bad to know I wasn't as hard worker as everyone in this country and switzerland. Even with all the differences we became good friends and we joke arround all the time with JD.
Me JD, and Jonathan did a lot of progress at the mission. And when I was getting used to work at the mission. Bill came to me and said I was going to change the ministry and I was going to start working at the church helping out with the bookstore ministry and the coffee shop. I was a litttle bit excited but I was also sad I wasn't going to be at the mission working with JD and jonathan. I started thinking about the things we can acomplish together at the coffee shop, bookstore ministry. and I started seeking the Lord and praying for direction.
As you guys already know the work I've been doing in Puerto Vallarta Mexico isn't quite pleasent to me because I never done something like this before. Digging holes, taking loads of trash and getting dirty and smell bad wasn't my idea of ministry at first. Bill came to me one day and said that there was going to come one guy from Switzerland and that he was going to be staying at his house for 6 weeks helping out in the ministry. I was glad to know I could make friends with someone from other country other than the States and Canada. I knew nothing about switzerland and the people there.
Sunday at noon after the service we went to have lunch and Bill went to pick up this new guy to the airport. We were almost done with our food when Bill and Jonathan show up to join us. Bill present Jonathan to the whole group and then we continued eating. I didn't have an oportunity to talk to Jonathan during lunch but once everyone was done me, Jonathan, Bill and his son carpool on Bill's suburban so I talked to him for a little bit. I was really surprise that in Switzerland they speak 4 lenguages: German, french,Italian, switzGerman. When I heard French I decided to try my french and try to speak it. He could'nt understand me but at least he correct me and I was glad I learned something at school.
Next morning as usual I get up early to be at Bill's house at 8:00am so me and JD can go to the mission and work on some more stuff. This time was different because Jonathan was coming also to help out. Me and JD gave a quick tour arround the mission and me and jonathan started digging some more for the water line to go through the yard to the street. I was glad to know I didn't have to dig all by myself. He turned out to be a farmer in his country and he was used to hard work. I felt bad to know I wasn't as hard worker as everyone in this country and switzerland. Even with all the differences we became good friends and we joke arround all the time with JD.
Me JD, and Jonathan did a lot of progress at the mission. And when I was getting used to work at the mission. Bill came to me and said I was going to change the ministry and I was going to start working at the church helping out with the bookstore ministry and the coffee shop. I was a litttle bit excited but I was also sad I wasn't going to be at the mission working with JD and jonathan. I started thinking about the things we can acomplish together at the coffee shop, bookstore ministry. and I started seeking the Lord and praying for direction.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
construction work
Saludos,
I thank God for all that He has done for me and all my friends for keeping me in prayer and always being there for me.
The beggining of my ministry started one sunday morning when I left my parents house in Tepic Nay. to go serve the Lord in Puerto Vallarta Mexico. we arrive PV one hour before the service started so I got time to spend some more time with my family before I begin my journey.hahaha. After the morning service I went to the apartment I'm renting right now to clean and get my stuff in place. after I few hours Micah (pastor's son) came to the apartment to tell me that I was going to help the pastor in the children's ministry at the afternoon service. I was really excited to know that I was going to start my ministry ministering to the young fellows. Only two kids show up to the service and we talk about John chapter 2. They seemed to enjoyed the study. we finish a couple minutes early and decided to play arround with the toys in the children's ministry.
Monday morning Bill told me I was going to help JD (Juan Dominguez) and work with him in the mission doing construction work. My first tought was: "I never done that before". so me and JD worked on the kitchen for days. We used a saw to cut the cement floor to level it before getting the tile on. then we took a huge hammer and a pick and started hitting the floor as hard as I can to make it loose. and with the pick we pull the floor up. after 3 days the floor was almost level. so me and JD took shovels and took all the floor pieces to the dump which was a really unpleasent experience because it was really hot and there was a wierd smell and I had to take down all the pieces of cement down (after getting it on the trailer). after a few hours my mission was completed. yeaaaahhhhhh. So the next week we fix some doors and lay the tile down. I learned to mix the mud and level tile to the floor and some other stuff. I also dig holes. took walls down and some other fun stuff.
thank you and God Bless you,
Cesar
P.S. dont forget to pray for the ministry in PV.
I thank God for all that He has done for me and all my friends for keeping me in prayer and always being there for me.
The beggining of my ministry started one sunday morning when I left my parents house in Tepic Nay. to go serve the Lord in Puerto Vallarta Mexico. we arrive PV one hour before the service started so I got time to spend some more time with my family before I begin my journey.hahaha. After the morning service I went to the apartment I'm renting right now to clean and get my stuff in place. after I few hours Micah (pastor's son) came to the apartment to tell me that I was going to help the pastor in the children's ministry at the afternoon service. I was really excited to know that I was going to start my ministry ministering to the young fellows. Only two kids show up to the service and we talk about John chapter 2. They seemed to enjoyed the study. we finish a couple minutes early and decided to play arround with the toys in the children's ministry.
Monday morning Bill told me I was going to help JD (Juan Dominguez) and work with him in the mission doing construction work. My first tought was: "I never done that before". so me and JD worked on the kitchen for days. We used a saw to cut the cement floor to level it before getting the tile on. then we took a huge hammer and a pick and started hitting the floor as hard as I can to make it loose. and with the pick we pull the floor up. after 3 days the floor was almost level. so me and JD took shovels and took all the floor pieces to the dump which was a really unpleasent experience because it was really hot and there was a wierd smell and I had to take down all the pieces of cement down (after getting it on the trailer). after a few hours my mission was completed. yeaaaahhhhhh. So the next week we fix some doors and lay the tile down. I learned to mix the mud and level tile to the floor and some other stuff. I also dig holes. took walls down and some other fun stuff.
thank you and God Bless you,
Cesar
P.S. dont forget to pray for the ministry in PV.
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