Our Trip......

We had a great trip this past weekend. It all started early Friday morning. We rented a car because it was cheaper to rent a car and pay for gas in it than in our Pathfinder. It saved us $75 by renting a car. Crazy huh? We had to pick the car up at 7am on Friday so we had to leave our house by 6:30am because we had to go all the way to the other end of town to pick it up. I had to get up at 5:30am to get ready. Yes, we started out our trip all ready exhausted.lol We came back to the house and loaded the car and left at 8am. We met up with Br. Tim and Sis. Lola at Pueblo and they followed us down to Hatch, NM for our Youth Convention. The trip down went pretty good. The kids did really good and it took us around 9 hrs. We stopped at McDonalds on the way down and ate and let Isaac play. We arrived at Hatch around 5:30pm and service started at 7pm, or was suppose too. But when you go down there you are on Mexico time, which basically means whenever. lol I had never been there and it was great! We had to go in and get ready for church and then we left for service.
Friday night service great. The Lord was there from the start. Springs and Pueblo had to do song service Friday night. Then Br. Jonathan Smith preached a very good message. And we had lots of great singing. Then Br.Jimmie Brooks, the guest speaker preached and it was also a very good message.
After church, they had sandwiches and snacks for all of us to eat. So we ate and fellowshipped. We all made our way back to the motel and all ended up visiting outside and then went to bed. Saturday morning came early, we got up around 7:30am and began getting ready. Dustin got ready and went to Sis.Banuelos' Restuarant and got breakfast while the kids and I got ready. The best breakfast burritos ever!!!!!! I love it. We left for church and I had to eat on the way because I was running late. And of course on the way I got juice from the burrito on me and so I had that on me all day. We had lots of singing and worship and it was a blessing. Dustin preached a great message, what I got to hear of it. I was out with Isaac some of the time. He was something else this past weekend. I dont know what his deal was. Anyways, then Br. Horne preached and it was a blessing. One of my favorite things was hearing Sis. Katie Horne sing. That little girl is amazing with all the talents she has. We dismissed for lunch and they had prepared a huge mexican feast. It was really good. The afternoon session was a great blessing with lots of worship and preaching. God was truly there through the entire convention. Br. Banuelos preached and he has such a sincerity about him for the Lord and the work. We broke for supper break and no one was really hungry so we all decided to go to Dairy Queen and just get dessert. We all set around there fellowshipping for a while. Dus and I sat with the Kaufmanns and Br.Tim and Sis. Lola and we had a really good visit. We all ended back over at the kaufmann's room and visited until time for church. We had lots of singing during the evening service. I love to hear the spanish sing. Then Br. Brooks began to preach again and he did a great job allowing the Lord to lead him. Everyone was blessed. I know I was refreshed and I really needed it. Sometimes being the mom its hard to get to worship and pray like you would like too. But God always helps us and blesses. After church we all went back to the motel and all ended up in the Horne's room visiting. There was around 30 or 40 people in there. It was great time of fellowship. Even some of the spanish youth came over and it was a lot of fun being with them. They are great!
It started getting late and Aleah was already asleep and Isaac was cranky and wanting to go to bed so we decided to go to our room. We put the kids to bed and then there was a knock on the door, I opened it and low and behold there stood an angel with pajamas on with a COKE ZERO in hand. I love those, Coke Zero's that is.lol Okay the angel was really Sis. Shuler.~grin~ A few minutes later there was another knock on the door and Dustin answered it this time and it was Br. Horne bringing us some salsa from the Soto's store. They sent salsa to everyone. They are som giving. And it is really good by the way!
Then off to bed we went. Sunday morning we got up around 9am and got ready,loaded the car, and told everyone goodbye. We then went to the Banuelos' Restaurant for Brunch. We ate with the Horne's, Lewis's, Br. Tim, and Sis. Lola. The food was so good! We all stayed around visiting with Br.Banuelos, Br. Hector, and Sis. Erika until noon, all except the Horne's. They went ahead and headed out. We all then went down to the Soto's store and all left there with loads of stuff. We was there until 1:30pm and then we all headed out. We had a good travel home and we stopped with the Lewis's at Arby's for dinner in Raton, NM. We got home around 11:30pm Sunday night. Well that concludes our trip.