Amy Heckman Serving with New Tribes Mission in Mexico
Here in Mexico the Youth group is made up of kids from the age of 15 to around 30 or so. Our church has a great youth group, and we have really enjoyed hanging out with them. We’ve cleaned, had a birthday party, gone to a nursing home, and a park with them. We just found out today that they are doing the Bible Study on Friday nights and social things on Saturday. So we will probably start going to the Bible Study part too. Here is a bit from my journal about the night we went to the nursing home and the park.
At 4 we went to the church for “youth group.” We went to a nursing home to visit the people. First, the lady that started the home, told us a bit about the history. Then we went in and walked around and said hi to people. We went in one room and listened to a man tell stories. We (Crystal and I mostly just listened). Although there was one man (that with the help of some of the jovenes (youth)) asked me if I liked it here. I told him I did but I don’t know spanish, and am here to learn it. He said “okey dokey,” 
. After a couple hours, they sang a couple songs and then we left.
We went back to the church and hung out for a bit and then they asked if we wanted to go to a parque (park) for elotes (corn with cream, chili, and cheese). We said yes, and so we all loaded up and drove to the other side of town. We had fun singing on the way there. We ordered our elotes, and walked to a wall that we could sit on. From there we had a view of most of the city. It was a beautiful sight, but so big. We visited with them, and talked about what spanish we knew and that kind of thing. After awhile we were cold and it was time to go. So we said we’d take the Bible School students home. We said goodbye to the others and left. It was a great evening, and we were able to get to know our new friends better. Now we even have some inside jokes with them.
