Last Friday we left our temporary base at Jerusalem church in Mexcio City to go with the church on an outreach trip the church takes about every other week to another state called Michoacan. The place where we went in Michoacan was a rather poor, rural area where we worked in some pueblos(villages) called Aguacate, Tuxpan, and Fresnos. These are very small, farming villages in the mountains, and the culture is very different from the much if the rest of Mexico and definitively different from that of Mexcio City! The culture is extremely hospitably and very slow paced, which was a great break from the city life. I got to experience this hospitable culture firsthand because I got the opportunity to go on house visits for most of the day on Saturday. The people there were so kind, accepting us into their houses, feeding us from their meager amounts of food, and really treating us as family. During the house visits we got the opportunity to encourage a lot of people from the local Church, but I really felt encouraged as well. I also got the opportunity during the house visits to lead worship for a man who was housebound with alzheimers. On Sunday morning we split into two groups, with both groups going to different churches in the villages and one person Preqching from each group. My group went to a church that was held on someone's front porch with an amazing view of the mountains, then afterwards we were invited to go to someone's house for a great, traditional Mexican meal. Overall it was a really great weekend and a great ministry opportunity!