Guanajuato (Spring Retreat)

We had our RUF Spring Retreat in Guanajuato, Mexico (about 5 hours from Mexico City). Guanajuato is a smaller city know for its relaxed atmosphere, Spanish style architecture (it was founded by the Spanish), and its romantic setting. We did visit downtown one afternoon; however, our retreat took place in the countryside at a “retreat center” owned by Mission to the World. We had about 25 students go on the retreat; about 8 of them non-Christian. Our theme for the retreat was “Vision through Scripture”. Our speaker, David Green (the U.S. North-East Coast/Mexico RUF Director), began by talking about the authority, reliability, and story of scripture. In later talks we looked at practical ways to apply scripture in our lives, through workshops on “how to study your Bible” and “how to make decisions based on God’s will”. The retreat was also filled with small group discussion times, games, great food, team competitions, and very little sleep!

I was excited to be at the retreat!

During a "talk"

Playing games!

I was on the red team...
Bonfire and marshmallows

"Campamento Mision al Mundo" (Mission to the World Camp)

This is a sort video of the group during worship one day...

Downtown Guanajuato!!!!

Me in Callejon de Besos (a famous "ally of kisses")

Silhi and Me at a city overlook

The whole gang!

Crepes

One of our English Club attendees is from France. He is at the UNAM working on his doctorate. For our CURICLUB a last week he taught us the authentic way to make crepes from scratch. Our topping options were: jelly, chocolate syrup, caramel, cajeta, peanut-butter, marshmallows, almonds, chocolate chips, nutella, strawberries, bananas, mango, powdered sugar, and pecans!

Julien (our Frenchman) and Karina cooking the crepes

One of my crepes!