On Sunday all of the interns went to El Paso on our "day off". We had way too much fun for our own good, I think :)
First we went to the sovereign grace church in El Paso- it was good to go and worship in English, but it was also a sad Sunday for the church- it was their senior pastor and his family's last Sunday before they leave to help the Jacksonville church. We got to see how visitors feel on those strange Sundays. It was strange, but still good. Here's a picture of all of us (except my roommate Molly, she was home sick in bed) as promised. I'm on the left, then it's Stacey and John David (from Covenant Life), then Lindsay(New Orleans), Amy(Fairfax), and Sheri(New Orleans). And the gorgeous mountains are in the back. I love those mountains.

After that we went to lunch at Bennigans and had fun just hanging out and laughing, and just getting to know each other better. We then went to the mall in El Paso (pobre JD... hahaha) and then WalMart. It was so refreshing and fun to just be together and not have any work to do. And we did go to Starbucks- that iced double tall caramel macchiato was the icing on the cake :)

CLC left yesterday in the morning, and after taking Molly to the clinic in Guadalupe (she had been sick for about a week and was really dehydrated) for an IV, Lindsay, Amy, Stacey and I cleaned (well, more like scoured and sanitized to the best of our ability) the entire visitors dorm. That was long and hard and filled with cleaning fumes, but then last night we just hung out, ate dinner together, talked, and even rode up to the cross last night through the desert in the John Deere gator. We then played Mafia in the dark up at the cross. Stacey won.

It's been about 70-80 degrees yesterday and today (yesterday morning it rained so much the streets of Guadalupe looked like rivers.... so much for a sewer system :P) and right now it is cool and breezy and sunny. Que lindo.

The sickness is almost gone from the ranch (except poor little Jeremiah Adamek- he got it last night) and another group is coming in today. They are a Presbyterian group from Illinois- it should be interesting to see how a different group interacts with the kids, each other, and the ranch.
I can't wait until all of our group gets here. It's going to be so much stinkin fun. I miss you guys!
Hasta luego.