What's been going on lately...

Hello everyone! I didn't really realize that it's been a while since my last post. I am sorry.
I hope that you all had a Happy Thanksgiving. Spending time with family is always an important thing in life.
My Thanksgiving was very good, but also very different. We had a glasses campaign the day after. 3 doctors from North Carolina came down to help us and a missionary family from a town (Guanajuato) 30 minutes away from Leon. Since we had 3 missionary families, all of us AIMers, and the doctors, we held it at the church. Everyone brought something to eat and I made 2 homemade chocolate pies. It wasn't as homey, but we still had a really enjoyable time stuffing ourselves and watching movies on the overhead projector. I miss my family more and more everyday. It was sad not getting to spend it with them. This was most of our first holiday spent away from our families. This was a bittersweet experience, but a growing one too.
As I mentioned, we had a glasses campaign on Black Friday. It went very well and very successful. The doctors also brought down donated glasses from their congregation. We had a turnout of over 250 people. We had different station that we worked at. Some asked people if they want to know Jesus and study, prescription filling and fitting glasses. From this mostly everybody answered that they wanted to study. My group was a the hardest and busiest station, fitting glasses according to their prescription. Everyone needed glasses, but it seemed like the ones who needed them the most didn't have them. I have very special memories now in my heart that I remember having conversations with people.
They were 2 stories that happened very similarly.
This one elderly lady was so happy that she was almost in tears. She only knew a little English. But what she knew she showed her love and the words she knew to tell me thank you more than once. I was about to move down the line to help someone else when she was leaving and she grabbed me a gave me a huge tight hug. Before I remembered that I had a camera, she left. The memory is still placed vividly in my heart.
Thank you more than ever for your prayers and support. Keep the faith and strive to be closer to Jesus everyday.