When Mom Visits...

I'm happy to report that my mom found a great deal with airfare and visited me for 4 days. We had a great time!

She hit the ground running on Thursday. This is the day I go to the feeding center and give a class on purity to the young ladies there. Mom (aka Linda) went with me, played with childen, participated in the class and took pictures. When some one is new there, they always ask how to say their name - 100 times! So, after repeating myself to every child individually, we've established her name is Linda (Lee-nda in Spanish).

Friday, she came and taught English with me in the morning. Mom finally got to see these two students I have that are ever-so-adorable. With her there, it was like having three students!! She played the memory game with them, competed with them and even repeated some words in English... with a perfect English accent, might I add ;)

Then, off to El Oasis. This was one of my favorite times of her trip. We asked her to share a devotion with the women and it went perfectly! She talked to the ladies about how they're not prostitutes. They are children of God, His heirs, His friend, and He sees them as that - not as prostitutes. Guess who translated?!?!?! ME!!!!! I've done a little translating before, but it's different when it's your family. (atleast for me).

A few weeks ago I found this restaurant called Inka Grill, Pervuian food. So, my mom took me there. It was absolutely delicious! One thing I really appreciated was the portions. I ate everything on my plate, and though I was full, I was not in pain! Everything there was great!! However, to my BIG disappointment - they did not have Inca-Cola... A Peruvian soda the color of a yellow crayon (very yummy).

Saturday was a fun day. We hopped in the car and drove a little over an hour farther into the mountains to see some Mayan Ruins. I've never seen them before. The famous one's of Guatemala are the Tikal ruins in the northern region of Guatemala. It's really hot and humid there (yes, actually worse then Florida in Summer), which makes me loose my interest in visiting there.

Either way, we learned a little about them. Like, their age was somewhere between 300 a.d. - 1000 a.d. In this one city there were public buildings, religous buildings, sacficial gounds and even the palace where the king lived! It was definately a high-light getting to see these things.

Sunday was the most sad day she was here. She was hardly here! We left for the airport at 10:00 a.m. as her flight was around noon. Check-in seemed to be a breeze so we went "upstairs" to the food court and got a drink before saying good-bye.

It was an absolute pleasure to have my mom here. It's nice to see a familiar face every-now-and-then, especially her pretty one!