Thursday, January 15, 2009

Mission Trip Highlights

Here's our group minus our dentist family!

One of the local Adventist churches.

Part of our campsite at night.

My kids at the Mexico Ruins.

Ryan - our own Jolly Green Giant with some
of the local people. - 2nd church work site

The kids really enjoyed having VBS!

Everywhere you looked you saw oranges!

Beautiful flowers everywhere!

Sierra gets a turn at trying to crack the pinata!

A Mexican feast prepared by some
local church members in our honor
on Christmas day!
Father & Sons working hard!


A man who posed for Todd near our local worksite.


Well, we are back from our mission trip and it is good to be home again. We had quite the experience down in Mexico and I am glad that we went. There were ups and downs as usual on a mission trip but overall I was glad that my family was able to participate. The people are very beautiful and very friendly. They were so appreciative of our help. The weather was very warm with evenings getting cool. We had a lot going on all the time - we built two churches, added an addition onto one of the schools, did several VBS's and also the health expo's at various places. Several people in our group did get sick but with God's help most everyone was well before we left. It was touching to see the baptisms where people gave their lives to the Lord. We also had a fun day where we got to see some neat ruins in Mexico. Then it was time to pack up and get ready to come home!
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Love Blooms

Love Blooms
In Grandma's Garden

Welcome Friends & Family

Welcome to the Gardner Gang blog. Several friends of mine have done these and I finally decided to do one as well. I hope to preserve many family memories and make them available to share with all of you.

About Me

I'm a stay at home mom who loves being with my husband and kids out in the country.

Gardner Family "Remember When" List

  • Wyatt wanted to be a firefighter when he grew up - I just found several of the children's books on firefighting that he collected over the years.
  • Sierra called pillows "po-po's" and carried them all over the house.
  • Logan used to call Jesus "Gigi" and Haystacks, "haysnacks".
  • Logan used the black and red dry eraser markers and decorated Daddy's office and two of the walls in the family room!
  • Logan heard the phone ring and said, "Mommy the phone is talking to you"
  • Logan put nails in Daddy's grill on his car and every 30 feet down the road he heard "plink, plink"!
  • Logan went to the bathroom on his potty chair and then promptly said, Now it's Sissy's turn!
  • Mom totally shocked us all by letting us get a kitty that we promptly named "Morning Star"
  • Sierra surprised us by demonstrating that she could climb to new heights and ended up on top of the dining room table
  • We were at Lay Advisory Retreat and Logan pulled the fire alarm and everyone thought that Mom had done it
  • We were leaving Camp Au Sable and Dad brushed the trees with the RV and Logan said "Sorry Trees, Sorry Trees!"
  • Dad backed up the RV into Aunt Lori's car and wrecked the bumper and didn't even hardly feel a thing in the RV!