Misty Striking the Pose!

We will see how she looks in a couple of days.

Misty Striking the Pose!!!

We will see how she looks when she gets home.

Mom's Big Adventure

Tomorrow Misty is going to go with the DTS students on a trip to the outdoors. It is supposed to be somewhat intense, there will be hiking, team building activities, and there will be chicken for dinner. The chicken will be very very fresh, as fresh as a chicken can be. I hope she has a really good time. But seriously, pray for Misty this goes from Wednesday through Saturday and it is a lot of physical exertion and and she is going backpacking for the first time ever. She could have taken a pass but she is going to go for it and I am really proud of her.

We are having a quiet few days here on the YWAM Base, but next week will be pretty exciting and soon we will be having a lot of week long programs happening and that will be a bit of an adjustment feeding a lot of high school age students here.

We have finally taken everything out of our storage unit and all that needs to get here is the flat bed trailer full of furniture that is in the San Diego Offices warehouse. Hopefully soon the furniture will be here in a couple of days.

Joey is making his dad really proud as he writes letters on the side of our van in the morning, and this evening he was putting down numbers on a piece of paper and keeping score for Emily as they played with the bowling game our friend Heather Nielsen gave Joey. I like the school that Joey and Emily go to during the week, there are a lot of things they are having the kids in Joeys class do, PE, learning about the Mexican Flag, expositions (Joey talked about Cows), Spanish Lessons, art, computer's math, writing letters and numbers all of this in Spanish. Last week Misty went to a parent teacher conference and heard a really good report about how Joey is learning the language, and is a problem solver whether it is school work or other kids fighting with each other. I am so proud of my little boy! Emily is so sweet when she comes and goes to school, when we pick her up her hair has been put up into little pig tails. Next September she will start Kindergarten, and as she starts Joey will be finishing so they will be together. I can't wait for the program they will have, we loved Joe's Christmas one and I cannot wait to see them together.

March Already!!

WOW, where is the time going? We had an amazing time last weekend. We are working on getting some photos and a video done to show you the house build. We started Sat. morning with a warm breakfast and an orientation on how to correctly put a nail into wood. After that we were off to a new area of Ensenada. Our house was near the downtown in the mountains area. The Family Gresiel and her two daughter were waiting along with her mom and dad, and the co-Mayor of Ensenada, his wife, and another man on the city council. It's been awesome to see God moving in the city government these past months. We all got to pray for the family on the foundation of their new home. We then split into teams, me and the kids were on the painting team!! We had a blast painting our hands first and then the boards. While painting we met a new friend same age as Joe he lived a few house down from the build, Joe played a bit with this little guy while Emily and I helped his grandma pull weeds. I was happy to see in the midst of this amazing work for this family we are being use to bless another family. Dad was back at the base finishing up his work. When he arrived we had lunch and got back to painting! It was great to work side by side with G and her cute girls, we have many pictures but they are not on our camera, they are soon to come! Cleanup was next and by 5 we were back at that base exhausted! After a quick scrub down in the shower, the kids fell asleep and slept through dinner and the whole evening they were pretty wiped out. The next morning it was another wonderful HOT breakfast (I tell you this because it's not everyday we get hot breakfast) then off to the build site, the walls were up and roofing was being started, we were again on paint duty this time inside. Mom did most of the painting while Bill and the kids were outside playing. We hope to go back and visit again soon! Together as a DTS this was awesome for us all to gel together as a team! I know it is an amazing blessing for G and her girls to receive shelter but it was more amazing to be used by God to bless this family and the family down the road. You who read this site are blessing us as well by your prayers, and support! I love God's perfect circle of blessings, don't you! Thanks again, and we look forward to getting photos and a video up here soon! March is going to be fun! Marie our niece will be having a birthday, and at the end of the month the "Cruise Girls" are coming for a visit. We are excited and can't wait!!

Wednesday Night

Well, it is wednesday evening and another day is finishing. It was Valentines day today and I got Misty some roses for her present. We also bought some chocolate bars from a lady that works at Joey and Emily's school. Misty made some labels and put them on the bars and we shared them with other DTS students in the morning. We are halfway through with the lecture phase. I don't even know how to start saying how good this has been for us to go through together. We have learned about the Father heart of God together, had amazing interactions with the other students and the guest speakers and I am so glad we were there together. It has been a good group to be in there are only 12 students in the class, so we are able to get to know each other better than if we were in a larger group. I speak from experience; the first DTS I did 11 years ago had like 30 people in it and there are some people I didn't really get to know at all, I never really had the chance. This week we have a guy from YWAM Denver talking to us about missions and giving us information about where unreached people are, and leading discussions about various questions. For example What is the gospel? What is the kingdom of God? What is salvation? Our Speakers name is Chris Failla and he reminds me and Misty of Quentin Steen a lot. Chris manages to communicate without dropping ocasional F Bombs though.

Today the power was out on the Base for all of the morning and half the afternoon while the Power was being repaired out in front of the street. It was a very interesting experience preparing lunch today. I worked Imelda our new cook and she is so good! It reminds me of a scene from the movie BIG starring Tom Hanks. Tom has wished himself to be Big so he is a little kid inside the body of an adult, he gets a job doing data entry at a toy factory and is just working away typing in data andthe guy next to him says: "hey, slow down you are going to make us look bad" I am having a good time working with Imelda. I am so blessed by here being here.

Joey and Emily had a good day at school, today they were celebrating Valentines day Joey had to bring some candy to share and Emily needed popcorn so she could have some for her movie they watched. Joey has just started the 3rd level of Kindergarten and Next fall Emily will start the 1st level, at which point we will have to decide if we take them both up the street to a different school so they can be together or have Emily at the present school-Piccolo Ninos and Joey at Colegio Americana.

Misty is really enjoying the class time, and also when she gets together with some of the other girls in the small group time. She is also enjoying watching Joey as he blossoms as a child; he is getting more verbal and talks all the time and tells stories that go on forever, he is getting taller. Misty is also so proud of Emily and how she is a nurturer, we saw this when we went to the orphanage, and when she plays with her baby dolls. It is also great to see her hair growing back.

Gabe's House

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcfTQ6sBaCY
Here is a video of the orphange we went to on Saturday. I hope you enjoy, all of us did!

Superbowl Sunday

Hey!
I wrote my brother an email earlier today and I was telling him how I was wanting to go to the actual Superbowl today except I don't have the tickets to the game or the time off or the money, or transportation either.

So anyhow it is Sunday morning, Misty is changing a diaper, Joey is watching the Wonder Pets on TV and I am posting. We had a really good week in DTS our speaker was a guy named Kenny Peavey and he lead worship and spent time talking about Worshipping God and connecting with Him through worship and as that happens we participate with Him in what He is doing in the world and with other people. So for me (Bill) God was putting on my heart what goes on in the kitchen and all the people I interact with while I am at work cooking there; other staff and students, people from the Rehab center that come in to work in the kitchen sometimes and even the bums who live on the beach nearby coming to the side door asking for food. It was an awesome week actually.

I have a new staff person in the kitchen for a while, her name is Marla from Portland, Oregon and she is a mission builder here for about 5 or 6 months. Marla has been a tremendous help, she handles the kitchen when I have to be gone shopping or when I am in class in the mornings. Between her, Candace, and the other students in the afternoons I have had the time to take care of my work without being in a super rush so that is more good news.

Yesterday, we did some local outreach with the DTS, we all went to an Ophanage called Gabriels House. Gabriels house is for kids that have special needs. There were a few children there with Downs syndrome and some sisters with Muscular Dystropy and just about all the kids were in wheelchairs. So we all split into two groups half of us were cleaning while the other half played with kids. They had a swing set there with special seats for the kids. We pushed them in their chairs and spent time with them. After we came home, it was dinner time and I had to do some shopping for a Missions Adventures conference that is coming up next week.

So we are excited about last week and look forward to another week to come. Another DTS speaker, the conference and also a day off from school for the kids on Monday; Constitution Day!

Our Good Friend Caesar!

Hi gang, this is Caesar and Emily learning Spanish! Caesar is a mission builder, he helps wherever he is needed, and we need him a lot. He's a great guy and we have adopted him as our own.

Misty had an amazing encounter last Friday night, she and the other DTS students went down to the Red Light district called the Bajio's. Here is her story: When we first got there, it seemed like it was just another day downtown with not to many people. Then we put on the music and grabbed some cups of hot chocolate and bread and began to walk the block passing out a cup to whomever I saw. I didn't get far. The men and a few women came to us. I met Omar, who told me his story, he began to share with me how he killed his father and was sentenced to prison for 45 years and spent 22 in prison, and was released and then deported to Mexico. His eyes were filled with tears as he kept sharing with me about his past, he spoke of his mother and how she spent many of nights on this same street were are at making money to buy tacos for him and his brothers. He told me how he felt so guilty that he couldn't take care of his family, and how he couldn't eat the tacos his mom brought home because he knew what she did to get the money. We just listened, and listened. He ended with the amazing pain he was in right now his wisdom teeth are coming in and he has tried to go to the doctor but they can't help him. I asked if I could pray for him and he welcomed it. I felt so bad that I couldn't pull out his teeth for him, I was saddened by the lack of health care for him, I just don't know what God has in store for Omar, but I have to believe in faith that God loves Omar and wants to see him in his Kingdom so I prayed! I shared his story with everyone I could. I wanted a miracle to happen, I wanted Omar to be healed from his pain. I think God wanted him to share his story so I could share the story of how much God loved him! I was so honored and felt a bit anxious that God would choose me to pour his love onto Omar.

I went back to the van to get more hot coco. I was stopped by another man, he was smelly! Really, Really Smelly!! and not the good smell, mostly urine and vomit. He through another guy asked me what I thought about the people I've been seeing? All I could do was look at him as I began to request an answer from God, tell me what to say God, I began to pray. I said "You remind me of my brother*, you know like a friend." (*Not my biological brother MIKE:) just for the readers, I don't want Mike to think he stinks:) ) He said, through a translator, "I want the Joy you have in your eyes" I was blown away! I have Joy in my eyes, I was so humbled, all I could think was how badly he smelled, and he saw past that and wanted Jesus! WOW, I asked if I could pray for him and he accepted! I gathered a few others and we prayed, This man was weeping! he fell on to his knees and was crying out for the living GOD! HOW AWESOME!! I was amazed that God would bring these two gentlemen to me and that I could play a role in their salvation! PRAISE GOD!! Speaking of praising, my last encounter before we had to go was Sal, this guy was drunk, seriously drunk! he was trying to offer me a drink of what he had in his bag, "no thanks" I say and through a translator he tells me, I remind him of his sister that lives in San Diego, how nice I say does she know that you are drinking? no he says, she'd kill me, I tell him that it kills me too, to see him like this. He began to tear up, and said he loves his sister, over and over again. He then began to sing a song to me and with that I was scooped up and put in the van by our leaders. We had to go. I think about theses encounters a lot, and now that I got to share them with all of you I hope that you can think of them as well.

Here is some more amazing news, We as a DTS and a family have a great opportunity to build a home and will do so Feb. 24-25. The Rocha Rojo is our family, this is a single mom with two kids. Her name is Grisel, she is 22 and works in a factory. Her two girls are Ximena 2 and Itzel 5, they heard about the homes of hope through another family who received a home. We hope to meet this family this Sunday. Please be in prayer for this sweet family, and how we can share Christ's love for her, and her girls. We are excited and can't wait to give you more information as soon as we get it.

The Moss Family Adventure

The Moss Family Adventure
OK, so it is Sunday and I m here to report some stuff about the week we just had.

During the Discipleship Training School our subject was the Father Heart of God. Our speaker was a man from North Carolina named Jack Kody, he did a really good job, we met Jack last October when we were first here in Ensenada. He travels to various YWAM bases and spends a week at a time teaching this subject to the DTS's that are going on there. He had a very relaxed natural style of teaching and really connected with us during the week. He was also a major blessing to us as a couple because he kind of rearranged what he was talking about to address things that were going on with Misty on thursday. Next week we have a guy named Peter Ilian who will be talking about having a lifestyle of repentence.

Misty had a meeting with Joey's teacher the other night, He has a new Teacher the other one had to leave due to health reasons. Bill was having to finish serving dinner so one of the DTS staffers from Mexico went with to translate, her name is Kathy. Other news...Bill is still sick. he has a sore throat, it hurts and it hurts even worse to swallow. We are still having internet connectivity problems, I was on for a couple of hours the other night, but there has been only very intermittent service other than that. We need to get some sort of amplifier for the wireless in the courtyard or something. It is much less convenient doing this in the internet lounge. I work best when I get up early and have some time to think about what I am saying.

Here is one more bit of really neat news for us as a family, our DTS class will be participating as a class in a house buiding project in the next few weeks, that will be an awesome experience since we will get to be there from start to finish instead of just showing up for a while like we have done other times.

 
Here is a picture of the mountains with the first Ensenada snow in 20 years! 

 

This is Misty's collage of pictures of fellow students in the DTS 

The Moss Family Adventure

The Moss Family Adventure

Hi from the Moss Family adventure, we have been having a bear of a time trying to get posts through. This the third try, there is some sort of internet connectivity problems here.
We are in the second week of the DTS that Misty is attending.
Joey and Emily are in school, school is in full swing again after the Christmas break.
We had a very busy weekend this past weekend with 4 houses being built and us all going out to help set up the tables and feed the teams. Saturday was really cold and rainy, Sunday was a little nicer just cold outside.

I will try to post with more details and pictures or something but for now this is all.

Love Bill for the mossfamily adventure.

ps the YWAM site is

www.ywamsandiegobaja.org

My Best Friend

 

Joey and Emily have found two friends who happen to be brother and sister as well. Their names are Kory and Sophia. They are 5 and 3. The kids are having tons of fun playing at the YWAM base. If they aren't running around playing super heroes, then it's Hot wheels, or swinging on the swings, or playing Hide and Seek. The girls love to play with their babies, and watch any Disney, Veggie Tail, Pixar, etc. film they can. When Kory and his family arrived last July he didn't speak any English. Today, only 7 months from his arrival and he's really fluent in English, Sophia only speaks Spanish, so it's fun watching the girls communicate.

Bill and I have been really busy getting food prepared for the teams that have been arriving. We have two teams here this week both are from Calgary. One of the teams is a big Skateboarding group. They so far have taken out a pillar at our apartment complex, managed to get one of our vans onto the beach and then can't for some reason get it out of the sand dune the parked it in, damaged two of our dorm rooms, and this is only the first night. WOW!! Canadians really know how to party!

I have received a few error messages regarding some of our e-letters that have been going out. We do send one out every month so if you haven't received yours it could be that it has bounced back to us. If this has happened let us know and I'll send another one to you with the correct E-mail. We really want to keep in contact with you all so that you know how our adventure is going. We also have been experiencing some internet problems, so if the blog site isn't up to date check back it could be because our server was down. We do have a picture of Manuel our Costco friend, we just need to post it up here, we tried early before the letter was sent and we just found out that it didn't post so we will try again.

Our DTS class begins on Monday the 8th (happy B-Day Grandma Mary). I'm pretty excited! I've seen the last class and some have shared with me their experiences and I can't wait to see what God has in store for our family. There are 15 others attending the oldest one it 23 so Bill and I are the grandparents once again!! We are okay with it. We'll let you know how it goes when we get into it. For now if you can continue to pray for our finances, that would be great! We are about 700.00 a month in the red each month. If you fell that God is leading you to join our adventure and support us, you may;

Use Snail mail (100 W. 35th Street National City, CA 91950) a check made out to YWAM SD/Baja(please make sure you DO NOT write our name anywhere on your check just include a note with "Moss Family" on it)
*You can give electronically online, YWAM San Diego / Baja http://www.ywamsandiegobaja.org/pages/ YWAM San Diego/Baja on this website under Donate on line, it's on the left hand column mid way down there are two options.
Option 1 Donate online, you can fill out the info below and make sure you use the drop down menu at Projects and pick Staff Support and type "Bill Moss" then go to step 2 and so on.
Or
Option 2 is for Direct Deposit and requires you to print out the form and mail it in with a voided check.
Any option you choose is totally up to you.

We'd love to have you join us on our adventure! 

What the kitchen looks like now

  

And what the kitchen used to look like...

  

A Childs Christmas in Mexico..... with apologies to Dylan Thomas

 

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all who are reading this BLOG.

We had a visit from Misty's Mom, Momma Mary was here for a couple of days and then they went to California and visited Knott's Berry Farm. I, your humble author stayed behind and got into my Christmas project. While they had a nice time together at the park and in Los Angeles I was changing up the kitchen. The kitchen had a bunch of LARGE lunch coolers stacked in a corner and I got them moved into a dark closet that had a bunch of shelving I didn't really like. The closet was 5 feet high and not lighted and it was hard to find or store things inside there. Where the coolers were are now some new steel shelves that we bought at the local Costco; now we have plenty of space for the things we get and they are accessable. I also took down a couple of hanging spice rack/ utensil holders, replaced a fan we keep in the window and sorted through all the neat stuff that was hidden inside the small dark storage closet. I found a new blender, 2 crock pots, a Cuisinart Food Processor, 2 small bug traps and enough mustard and mayo packets to last till the final installment of the Chronicles of Narnia film series.

While I was waiting for the family to return home I also went Christmas shopping for a present for Misty, and I went grocery shopping for the Christmas dinner we had today. When everybody arrived at lunchtime we had a hotdog and cheese pizza for the kids at the store I mention all the time and then went inside that madhouse to get some ice cream for the Christmas dinner. It was a beautiful shopping experience, Full on wall to wall people and also right before we went in Emily crapped her pants and we didn't have the diaper bag with us so we went through and I took the kids to the car while Misty paid. I loaded the kids in the car and helped a lady in the car next to me put a case of soda away for her it was too heavy and she may have been pregnant. I went down the road to Pedro Loyola Blvd and got some tacos at a taco stand for dinner, and eventually the kids went to bed and we put the presents out undr the tree. I slept some but woke up early and Joey was up at 4 and he saw all the presents and got really excited about how Santa Claus had come to our house then he ran into the bedroom and woke up Misty and Emily and we were all up at 4 opening our presents and by 5 the Superman returns DVD was playing and Misty was back in bed and I was snoozing in the chair while Joey and Emily played with the baby stroller and Spiderman and Coast Guard Rescue Helicopter. I LOVE CHRISTMAS

Since everybody is gone we didn't have a Christmas service and we as a family didn't really know where to go to a Christmas eve service we just spent time to together but it was actually really nice not having to race all over town to make stops everywhere to visit for too short a time and run off to the next place before finally making it to Christmas dinner at usually Misty's parents house. I cooked some Carne Asada and beans and rice for Christmas dinner for those of us around the base. I didn't event hear Christmas Carolers, here in Ensenada they do something really cool though for Christmas eve and it is still going on as I type. People set off really powerful fireworks, I feel like I am in a warzone. Thats ok though cause I am going to buy some fireworks myself and I am going to organize a bonfire at the beach as we burn at least 3 Christmas trees in a couple of days or on New Years eve and blow off some explosives, it should be fun. I hope I dont get arrested. I will keep all those who are interested informed..... 

Saturday Dec 16th at a building site

 

Saturday we all went to a building site to check out the special design of the houses built last week, we dont have any pictures of the actual house because we got there very early at the build project. But Misty and Emily sat with the Mama and her daughters and played with dolls and visited as they watched the house getting put together. The house was on a road that was on a hill and the other kids in the neighborhood were riding their kiddie kars down the hill. Joey got in on the fun by chasing them and running alongside. I got a lot of action shots. I had a good time being there watching the progress of the building, we had a lot of visitors there from the base, and the Tijuana base, and San Diego; all were there to see the new experimental design. I think the major difference is that the houses we currently build are made of press board, sheet rock, type of material and this one has 3 inch thick vinyl siding with foam insulation inside that was in 18 inch wide pieces that were silicon glued and then screwed together, the house also has an indoor bathroom with a shower for the family. I don't know if this is the type of house that will be built here by YWAM and the teams, but I guess it is the wave of the future.

But what I really want to say is how much of a joy it was to be there and see the kids having fun and seeing the family as they had their house built. 

Friday's Christmas Program

 

On Friday the 15th Misty and I went to the school where we have Joey and Emily enrolled and there was a Christmas program by Joey's class. We met some people and watched the kids in action, had a snack (chicken and refried beans and a slice of french bread) and there was a hot fruit punch as well. The kids sang songs, played pinata and even had a visit from Santa Claus. At the beginning we had to go back outside of the gate and sing a song, we were told it was a Mexico tradition, it is called "La Posada" and it commemorates when Joseph and Mary were trying to find a place to stay in Bethleham. Misty and I had a good time and it actually was very exciting to be meeting other parents and seeing the other kids that are in Joey's class. One of the things we were hoping to happen when we came here was to build actual relationships in the community. 

Joey at the Building Site

 

Ok so this picture is a few weeks old but we wanted to use it for a visual.

We had the city council of Ensenada over yesterday to visit us and we had a lunch for them. The menu was Penne pasta with Alfredo sauce with some chicken on top and along with it was some Caesar salad, sliced Baguettes, and a Caprese Salad but we used some rolled up cheese and salami loaves that were bought at Costco instead of Mozzerella...something a bit different we wanted to try. Misty loves salami, and hasn't had it for awhile so it was a nice treat.

The meeting was for our base leaders and the Chief Operating Officer and the City council of Ensenada. One of the City councilmen got up and told a personal story of someone who had recieved a house five years ago and it had turned the life around for the family, and it was HIS family that got the house five years ago. We were all really excited to hear that, Misty and I had big tears in our eyes as Kody was sharing with us the news. The circle continues, this man was given the gift of a home and the love of Christ and he and his family turned around and gave the gift of God's love by becomming a servant for his community!

There is another family who serves as a full time staffer with her husband and her family has a house from "Homes of Hope" also. Over 2000 "Homes of Hope" houses have been built here in Ensenada and Tijuana. People lives are being changed, and we as a family, and you as our supporter, reader, prayer partner, adventurer, get to be a apart of it, isn't that COOL!

Today and tomorrow we have a staff conference here on the base. So all the baja staff will be here. Misty and I will be busy in the kitchen preparing the meals and etc. for everyone.

Just a side note Gramma Mary will be joining us for a couple of days next week we are all excitied to see her and can't wait to spend some time with her!!