La Cumbre Santidad

Just finished 2 days of a holiness conference with people from all over Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean -- 400 pastors and other church leaders. It was very encouraging to see so many young leaders, in early and mid-20's. Times of worship here are very loud and engaging -- wonderful music!! The keyboard player made the keyboard sound like a grand piano -- everything from very contemporary worship music to the Hallelujah chorus....
One of the wonderful surprises of this conference is that I saw so many people I know, including my friend Vicky from Guatemala (we stayed with Vicky and her family when we adoped Charissa 22 years ago!) and Eliezel from the Dominican Republic -- did a missions trip with ENC students there in 2000, and Eliezel was one of our leaders!  He is now a volunteer missionary on the campus here.
 
The speakers were very good, and I practised my Spanish a lot -- though I still found it difficult to understand a lot.  During the first plenary session it started pouring -- all the roofs here are made of metal, and what a racket!  Even with a decent sound system, it was difficult to hear anything at all!  We've now had 2 absolutely gorgeous days of sunshine, though -- and even though it seems to me that it rains a lot here, people are concerned that it hasn't rained enough, and that it may be jeopardizing the water supply.
 
On a more mundane level, went to the little building next door to do my laundry yesterday, and surpised a foot long-or-so lizard who was sunning himself just inside the doorway. He was un poco 'gordo', but had no trouble getting away from me very quickly!!