Semana Santa

I was away from Queretaro for the whole week last week. In Mexico the week before Easter is called Semana Santa (or Holy Week).

We have church conference on Wed-Fri in Aguas Calientes. Monday and Tuesday were our days off before the conference, so Helena (the other intern from US) and I decided to go around and visit places. On Monday, we went to the pyramids of Teotihuacan (1 hour from Mexico City). On Tuesday, we went to San Miguel de Allende with Dani and Brisa. San Miguel is 1.5 hours away from Queretaro by bus and it is famous for being a ‘gringo- town’ because of the numbers of American and European tourists and residents there. I think the trips were a bit of overkill for both us. It was the combination of the tiredness and the bad food that we ate at a café that caused both of us (Helena and I) to be really sick on Tuesday night. I got up 5 times to go to the bathroom during the night and I had to take a 4 hour trip the next morning to Aguas Calientes for the conference. I took the medicines I have and I prayed that I could be healed the next morning - ‘God, I really look forward to go to Aguas for the church conference and to visit the Sovereign Grace church plant. I know you’re able to heal me, so please do so. But if I’m still not healed in the morning, I would be content resting and staying at home and not going. Amen’

The next morning, my stomach was still painful and I thought to myself – ‘I’m still gonna get ready and go to church. If I’m still sick by the time I arrive at church, I’d go back home, but if I feel better then I’d go’ When I got to church, Jessi gave me Imodium to eat and I was ok apart from the remaining little stomachache. So I went to Aguas Calientes with the church members on the Wednesday morning. I survived the 4 hour trip and the rest of the conference *yay! Praise God for healing my food poisoning and allowing me to go to Aguas!* (Poor Helena had to rest at home for the next couple of days, but thank God she is fully recovered now)


The conference went well. We were sleeping in a huge house that
no one is living. There is no bed, so we all sleep on the floor in the
different bedrooms. The conference consists of talks, testimonies, and singing. I still had difficulties in understanding the testimonies, because the people usually speak very fast (especially my Mexican brothers and sisters). But the talks and the songs are easier to follow. I recognized most of the songs from my limited Spanish praise and worship songs collections. The preachers were going through the book of 1 Thessalonians chapter by chapter for the bible talks – I could probably understand 75% of the talks.

After the conference, the church people stayed for another night to go around the city. Then when they left on the Saturday, I stayed another night by myself as I was planning to visit Sovereign Grace church there in Aguas.