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Well I don’t know it anyone still reads this but I think I’ll keep posting because I feel it allows my self to keep a somewhat decent grounding to my country. If you do read thanks, I hope I don’t bore you . Any way I’m still in Tepalpa right now. Its been really great here. Me and Mary have been going to Mass everyday. I went to the Easter Vigil(except here it’s called Pascua de Resurection) yesterday it was really beautiful. It was so super packed in the chapel. We had to stand up in the front with lots of people around us. Something that’s also really cool about yesterday is that it was my 1 year anniversary since my Baptism into the Catholic Church! Yep yep! I can’t believe it’s been a year already. One of the things that went through my mind was that how amazing crazy is was for me to come to Mexico on my own. Firstly, I spoke no Spanish. Secondly, I’ve never been out of the country unless it’s been lead and with a big group of people I already know. And Thirdly, I have never went to live with someone who I have know idea who they are. As I thought about all this I just felt so blessed at all the courage that God has given me to be able to go on this journey. I think about it now and if this was the Blake of pre-baptism I was have never done this. I think I would have gone crazy. But that’s something so great about my faith, no matter how much I distance my self for the people I’m familiar with I can always connect with someone around the world with our same adoration of Christ.

I was talking to Mary yesterday about her call to the religious life and how it’s so different here to see so many young people that are going to the convent at such a young age. I asked her if her parents had pushed her to go into this vocation. She told me no that both her Mother and Father both told her no and that she couldn’t go. When she was 16 she asked and they said no. The same goes for when she asked again when she was 17,18,19,20. The fact that Mary kept on asking and was so perseverant is so amazing to me and gives me so much respect for her. They finally allowed her to go into her called vocation when one day her Mom and Dad went to the convent with her and saw how beautiful the life style of the sisters was. This is really crazy to me because I have always thought that families have always pushed their daughters and sons into religious lifestyles. It’s not though, well in this case anyway, there is just as much of a struggle her and in the United States. So I still don’t know why there is such a shortage of young people being called to religious life back home. Well it’s more on the female side then the male side I think.

I have a bunch of pictures right now from Tepalpa. I’ll upload them as soon as I can. I can’t do it here because the internet is really slow and disconnects me every 5 seconds. So I’m going to be talking to a sister that lives in Guadalajara today to talk about if I can go over there for a little bit to help out and visit with them. I’m sure there I’ll be able to post pictures and hopefully call people  Welp that’s all I can think about right now. God Bless and I hope to hear from you soon!