Life in The Family International

Every 16th of September Mexico celebrates it’s “grito de independencia”, and wanting to cash in on some fun after restaurant-singing, we went to the local square to eat some elote (corn) and check out the festivities. Apparently in little towns like ours people start firing live ammo as the evening progresses… so we figured we’d be safer celebrating at home.

Being that we’re so fond of embarrassing ourselves we decided to drop in on the neighbors and sing them some traditional Mexican songs, but instead of finding them partying we found them in shock over some terrible health-related family news. I thought we might be intruding, but they assured us that we couldn’t have visited them at a better time and begged us to stay. It felt strange to be thanked over and over again for having helped them through such a difficult evening. “The Lord sent us, I guess, to pray with you and help you keep your eyes looking upward”. As we left we thought how cool it is to have the Lord engineering every part of our lives.

After many years of doing office-type missionary work, Florecita is testing her hand as a field missionary. She is currently the counselor of a group of teenagers, does outreach, restaurant singing… and anything that is needed to help her center and its projects keep momentum. She is also an aficionado of photography and hopes that with it she can show the world a little more of The Family International, its projects, and the wonderful people in it. More about Flo

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