Zane DeGraffenried

4th Jan 2010

Mexico City

Sorry

I feel that I must start this entry off with an apology: I stink at blogging and honestly I don’t foresee myself improving in the future. I am about to blog about stuff that happened over a month ago but I have cool pictures so it all balances out right? Thanks for forgiving me, now to the real meat of this entry.

Mexico City

The Schroeder family, a missionary family here in Mexico invited us to take a vacation with them to their missions house in Mexico City. We left December 27th and planned to stay around a week, give or take a day.

What we did

Being missionaries in a foreign country is very cool in the respect that you get to understand and live in a culture other than your own. The challenge is that too often your so busy being missionaries, you can easily miss out on the “cool stuff” of that culture. This was a cool opportunity to just take a break from “working” and explore Mexico’s Museum, Palaces, Plazas, and Aztec Ruins. It was relaxing to be able to not worry about being late or ill-prepared for Prayer Meetings, Bible Studies, Awana Clubs, Church, etc.

It was also an awesome opportunity to get to know the Schroeder Family better. Being that Natalie, Morgan, Vanessa and I are all so close in age we became instant friends. The Schroeder family also has a little girl Ceci(8) whom they adopted from Mexico City. She is such a testament of how much adopting can change a child’s future, she speaks english and spanish fluently and is a light into any room which she steps. As the Schroeders showed us the ins and outs of the subway system we were able to explore the city from what I think is more a Mexicans point view than a traditional “gringo” tourist.

Favorite Memories

  • Visiting the Aztec Ruins
  • Seeing one of Frida Kahlo’s original paintings
  • Touring the previous Presidential Palace.
  • Riding the Subway all over the city
  • Eating 30 Al Pastor Tacos in one Sitting

Credits

Lad DeGraffenried (AKA: Dad)

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22nd Dec 2009

Christmas Wallpaper

Design

I was designing a Christmas card for my family and this is the top part of it. I designed it fairly large and thought, hey why not make that into a wallpaper? So, I hope you can use this wallpaper for the few days before Christmas comes upon us. Have a great Christmas and if I don’t see you before the new year, Happy New Year!

So, you don’t like my design huh? Take a look at my friends wallpaper he released it today, maybe you will like his better.

Credits

  • Star Background: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1005288
  • Shack Photo: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1148784

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PS: Quick Note

I know I have been slacking off on this blog, I am gonna try to be less lame next year.

Notes

09 Feb

“Directions pertain to biblical truths, as well as content that is complementary to them. I have met many pastors who choose a verse-by-verse expositional style and are very condemning of those who do not. They believe their analysis of a particular passage or doctrine is superior to another’s, creating an atmosphere of criticism and contention among preachers, churches and doctrinal camps.

What did Jesus do? He did not simply expose the ancient scriptures, line-by-line, word-by-word. He sometimes tapped content from the prophets, sometimes created new stories for illustration and deeper meaning and frequently pulled from events of the day. “Ah, but we’re not Jesus. We don’t create truth by merely speaking.” True, yet we do add to truth when we expose and re-present it in our sermons and books. We provide our take on the original meaning. In doing so, we change it, whether we want to or not.”

  • http://www.preaching.com/resources/articles/11622940/page-4/