Shepherd At War 👨‍🌾🪖

☕️📖🕯 Our next bridge building opportunities with our new Latino friends came on holidays. That first year we threw an outdoor party for them in celebration of Thanksgiving. That ended up being my first experience with flaming hot spicy food. They reciprocated our gifts of food by letting us try their tamales. My first impression was that they tasted incredibly good, but then the cayenne pepper started to burn! Then they began to visit us on Sundays for church at our home and stay afterwards for a meal. At one such mealtime, the subject of how they came to be in the US was brought up. A few of them seemed to get very tense, semmingly fearing that all our friendliness had just been a trap all along.