San Luis Potosi

Our flight from Ixtapa to Mexico City was smooth sailing all the way and offered us some magnificent vistas of the country of Mexico. Our aircraft spent much time plying the air over Mexico City before reaching the airport. It is a huge city and our altitude diminished enough while over it to give us a fairly detailed tour.

 

Next we transferred onto a plane for San Luis Potosi. This flight was also smooth until we were over the city. Then we learned our pilot was a cowboy. We banked steeply to the right, then we banked steeply to the left, tilted again way over to the right then back to the left. Why we zig-zagged to the airport remains a mystery.

Dan and Heather met us at the airport and today we spent the day, Carol with Heather and me with Dan, doing the round of people who are studying the Bible with them. Their students are sincere, humble, and serious about learning God's word. It was a privilege to meet them.

Driving in this city can be complicated, especially when going through a market area as shown below where cars appear out of nowhere, parked trucks suddenly start moving, and motorcyclists worm through impossible spaces.

 

A market square is shown below...

The photo below is of a typical side street showing Dan outside the door of one of his Bible students. One was an English teacher named José and we held the study in his classroom seated on chairs with built-in writing surface, classic grade school furniture I have not sat in for over half a century. José has recently learned what the Bible really teaches about the condition of the dead, that they are "sleeping" and awaiting a resurrection. His mother died when he was a young boy and he said he used to believe one day he would go and see his mother where she is. By studying the Bible he now understands that instead his mother will be coming back to see him where he is, only under far better conditions.

 It was a very good day.