Viva Mexico! Viva la Patria!

This year round we weren't able to take the kids out and about to celebrate "El 16 de Septiembre/Dia de la Patria," -- because just a couple of days ago Kenji came down with a high fever (39.8) and Angel was still battling with a lingering cough and cold. Thank the Lord Kenji's fever is gone now and Angel is doing a lot better.

What we did do, though, was let them partake of the festivites via TV. It was actually a lot nicer, in my opinion, because we got to see a lot of the traditional things that happen on this memorable day. They saw the colorful and beautiful typical dresses that girls used to wear as well as the attire men wore, sombreros and all! They also saw various traditonal Mexican folklore dances like; "Jarabe Tapatio, La Culebra, El son de la Negra" among many other plus a whole lot of Mariachis!

Oh, they also saw desfiles, Viva Mexico cheering, how people show respect to the flag and heard the National Anthem, charreria, a slew of different Mexican dishes and firecrackers go off and all! So all in all it was a fun and new experience for them, even if just from home! And I told Kenji that we would make a Mexican dish for dinner. He chose chicken flautas, so we made that and all the trimmings that go with that particular dish. We also had some meat empanadas that a friend brought. -- The flautas were delicious!! The empanadas were also good, but far too spicy for me. :D

Granddad and Steve are away on a trip. They been gone since Kenji's birthday and still have another 3 weeks to go. Poor Kenji misses his "sweet abuelo" as he calls him. Actually he misses him so much, that the other day he told grandma; "Abuelita ya no te quiero llamar abuelita, te quiero llamar abuelito, porque el no esta aqui conmigo." Awww, I thought that was so sweet!! He just wants his abuelo back, no matter what! Heh!

And now I present to you some video clips of our cooking and of my very own patriotic fanatic! Ha! I'll add some pics of the meal and stuff later.





Click here to watch the boys preparing the trimmings. -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u0CTvqehlc

Click here to see my little fanatic cheer for his country! Ha! -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2N9dsMiOsI

Viva Mexico! Viva la Offensiva!

Yesterday, mom, me and Kenji went out on OR/FU. Since it was sort of a holiday (El dia del Grito -- midnight) most businesses were only going to be open half day so we were hoping to make the most of the morning, but due to some events we started our witnessing day a bit late -- 10:00 am. But in spite of that we were optimistic and the Lord encouraged us to go out anyways and that He would bless our outing.

So off we went to our first FU appointment. We actually didn't have an 'appointment', but we've been trying to get a hold of this particular friend for awhile, but he's always too busy. So the Lord showed us to go see him at his office. Even though we thought that for sure he wouldn't be in, as most mangers didn't go for work that day.

Well, much to our surprise he was at his office, but was very busy was what one of his workers told us. The Lord showed us to wait for him a bit. We did but the minutes seemed to grow longer and longer and Kenji was beginning to get a wee bit weary of sitting :D.

Kenji has come with me on OR/FU before but two major differences this time were; #1 we didn't have a car this time -- thus we spent more time in the hot sun walking to our next witnessing spot or provisioning taxis. #2 His outings before had only been half days in other words a couple of hours. That was our vision seeing as shops would close at about 2 or so, but the Lord had other plans. :)

So back to our FU appointment tale. Finally, after about 30 minutes of waiting our friend was able to see us. He was quite surprised by our unannounced visit and kept saying how he had been thinking about us lately and was wanting to call us, but it never came to be. We got to spend a good 20 minutes with him (make up for our long wait ;) :D) showing him our latest projects and happenings and got to talk to him in a more one-on-one personal way. (As opposed to the casual 5 min. talk we often have had, due to how busy he is).

We prayed for protection over him and his work and so that he would make a way in his busy life to make more time to feed his spirit. He was very touched by mom's sincere prayer and kept on thanking her for praying. We presented him the option of being a pledger and he was more than happy to. He also resubscribed to Conectate and bought a FJWL book.


Here are some pix of how we celebrated "Dia de la Independencia". I'll write up some more about this later when I get more time. :D