Greetings,
I hope and pray that you are truly blessed in this new year. I thank God daily for the important part you have played in my life up to now. My experience here has been an amazing adventure, and I look forward to what the future holds.
I flew down to Cancun on January 1st. Because of technical difficulties I missed the flight out of Denver. (Yep, it makes sense to fly to North to Denver, then South to Cancun.. Right?) The nameless airline told me that I could just hop on to the next flight. Well, a short 12 hours and 46 minutes later I was on my way to Cancun!
We hit the ground running with a group already here and Wildwood’s family group coming shortly after. It was an amazingly wonderful and a very crazy couple of weeks. The time was spent handing out shoe boxes from Samaritans Purse. It was amazing, we handed out thousands of boxes, and that wasn’t all the kids walked away with. Brother Venancio displayed a powerful message of the gospel, not only to the kids, but to entire families. It is amazing to be able to walk up to someone who has nothing, give them a present, the word of God and hopefully a new life in the Lord.
I have a story for you. One night when we were prepairing to give our boxes presentation a man walked up to me. He introduced himself, and we briefly chatted. Then he looked at me with a big smile and our conversation went something like this. (translated for your reading pleasure)
Alex: Are you a Christian?
Me: Yep, are you?
Alex: Yes. Where you an alcoholic before you became a Believer?
Me: No, I was 4 when I became a Christian.
Alex: Oh, Good. I was an alcoholic before I was saved. I haven’t drank for five months!
Me: Awesome, praise God.
Alex then began to tell me about his three beautiful daughters. I doubt that I will ever meet up with him again. I will always remember how proud he was of Christ’s victory in his life.
It is amazing how God can use a shoebox filled with toys, pencils and paper to bring so many people into our family.
Spanish class started up this morning. I am not sure how many of you know, but I am officially the spanish Maestro (teacher). So far things have gone really well, please keep this in your prayers. I really would like this to be a very productive time for me and my classmates. My hopes are to be 70% fluent by the end of this
semester.
Coming up is our Guatemala trip. It looks like the few people that we had lined up to come along on the journey have had to back out. This means that we are going to have to raise support for the trip. Lord willing we will still be able to go. On our last trip we met pastors all the way across Mexico and into Guatemala that were in desperate need of bibles. We added up nearly two thousand that were needed. Please join me in some serious prayer that God would allow all of this to work out. I might be wrong, but I think the Lord has some great plans for Southern Mexico/ Guatemala.
I pray for you all daily. Don’t forget to look to the Lord first, then to whatever life throws at you.
God bless,
Eric-Robinson
eric@mexicomissions.org
http://www.ericlrobinson.com
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