Cancun Part 1

It has been a super intense past week. We left Ensenada last week for Cancun. We spent about two days traveling. I was quite sick with an infection in my body so honestly I don't remeber much. My team was really helpful though and we all made it safely. I went to another hospital here in Cancun and they gave me the right antibiotics so I am slowly recovering. I find with my back injury and now this God is cahllanging me to rest. My whole life I have tried to rest very little, but now that it is forced on me I am gainging a new focus. I am reading my bible more which is something I habve been craving for a long time but can't sit still long enough to read it. So I have been seeing new parts of the Old Testimate I've never read before. I also have a weakness for thinking about my body too much then wanting to work out and being sick that cannot happen so I am learning true rest in this time.

Aside from the health world, we are really busy here in Cancun. We went to a center for children last week. The kids there are in transition and will then go to foster parents. Sometimes they are there for a few days other times a few years. So God gave a the chance to go and perform with them. We then lead a workshop on Hip Hop. The kids were so fun and happy and really sweet to us. That was our first day of ministry so I was still felling very sick, but with them I was fine. God really sustains me when He needs to . We are making up a dance and editing a song fo them so when we go back tomorrow we can give them a dance that is just theres. We want to give them a joyful memory and a dance to keep.

Another exciting ministry time was this past Sunday. We went to a local church and did our hip hop dance and a drama we have about the many doors and paths in life. The pastor was really great and we met a lot of other YWAM teams in Cancun. The church was a giant tiki hut that had once been a strip club, but went under and this pastor came in and God was able to redeeme it into a beautiful facility to spread the gosple. We had an awesome time of fellowshp and encouragement from other YWAMers. I thought it was so funny there has never been anyone from Maryland in many areas of YWAM, but when I do meet other YWAM teams there are always people from Lancaster, PA.... what is that? Its like, come on Maryland someone else join the missions team YWAM....

Anyway, we also lead some dance workshop. Here in Cancun there is a DTS running and we went to the students and taught about 8 hours durning the week on dance, theater, and fitness. It was really great to encourage them. As we were showing them techniqes for the first time I was reminded of how I looked the same way 14 weeks ago when all this began and how God really can change you if your willing to be stretched. The Dts is a gret group of young people and they really love our team. It will be sad to leave on the next phase of outreach, but I think we are looing forward to les humididty in Mexico City.

I hope to blog again soon, butthe web is limited to us so here are some prayer points I would really apperciate you sneding up to the big guy...

-safety in Mexcio
-People wouold come to know God
-Unity in our team
-Wisdom for our leaders
-Smooth transportaiton

Thanks agsin for readung it is so important for me to know people at home are on this journey with me.

God Bless!
Ash