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/If you wonder what it's like to spend July 4th in another country, wonder no more because it was a beautiful day in Mexico.
We were able to "sleep in" and had a wonderful breakfast. The night before was Philip Weinrich birthday and his other two children, Lauren and Paul, flew to Merida to surprise him for his birthday; therefore, they joined us on our adventures.
We loaded all 43 people into vans and extra cars to drive 1 & 1/2 hours to Santa Barbara where we were able to swim in three different cenotes, each as beautiful as the next. If you are unsure of what a cenotes is, it is a natural body of water with in a cave reaching hundreds of feet in depth. Some of them are completely inclosed, some have tree routes pouring down from above, some have birds flying over head along with small fish I tried to catch with no avail and some of them were completely opened on top with small caves and small waterfalls. Regardless of how big the cave and waterfall were, I will be telling people I've been in a cave and swam under a waterfall. Some of us simply floated taking the beauty in around us, others explored, some us tried climbing on the side of the cenotes getting the whistles blown and others tried to attack my feet from beneath me startling me! I shall not name names, but they know who they are.
After a week of hard work, it was nice to have a day to relax and take in the natural beauty of God's creation. According to scientific testing, research and investigating that has been done over the years it has been determined the cenotes were formed when mentors hit the Yucatan. Cenotes do not exist anywhere else into he world, as we know. If you ever have the chance to visit on, do!
I have been very blessed to serve the people of God and with this team. We have sweated, we have had injuries and had some unexpected sickness, but through all of this Christ as done a mighty work in us where the people of Tekax will a building with 4 walls, floor and roof proving protection from the sun where the entire body can worship together. This is a project they have been working on for 9 years and I am grateful to have been a part of it.