Holy Mole! Let’s Taco ’Bout our Mission in Mexico!

It’s been another wonderful week here in Puebla! To start, let’s talk about food. Carmena—our pint-sized host and full-sized saint—makes her own yogurt/kefir. From scratch.With love. Every. Single. Morning. Pair that with a cup of Nescafe and we are set for the day! This week, one of the most spiritual moments came not in church, but at the kitchen table.  Watching Carmena lovingly prepare our turkey sandwiches warmed our hearts. It’s hard to articulate the care she took to wrap our sandwiches in napkins for our hike to the pyramids.  We’re learning: even the simplest food can be prayer when it’s wrapped in kindness and handed to you with joy. Also, Carmena has offered to teach us how to cook traditional Pueblan dishes once we move into our apartment, and she’s already promised chile seeds and cuttings from her garden—blessings to help us grow our own little garden on the balcony. ...

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If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to live in a city with the world’s largest pyramid down the road, wild chickens and dogs, and rainfall that arrives like a biblical event—welcome to our life in Puebla. You quickly learn to treat your umbrella like your wallet—never leave home without it! Sometimes it’s for shade; sometimes it’s for survival. It rains here usually in 30-minute bursts that dump three inches of water faster than you can get your umbrella open. Just yesterday, a passing bus baptized us in street water!  Everyone carries a backpack for umbrellas and rain ponchos and extra bags for ny shopping we might do, as they don't provide bags.  And we also carry our laundry back-and-forth to school each day.  Here's me feeling like a pack mule! Mornings are sacred here—strong coffee, spiritual reflection, and attempting to read the news in Spanish, which usually ends in us clamoring for words with Carmena (our amazing anfitriona ...