Today we had a wonderfully warm day..ok, it was just a tad warmer than 106. Despite the heat, it was wonderful seeing old friends and making new ones. The home we starting building will be the home of Florencio and her children (see the image included to see Florencio). The 4 children range from 16 to 7 and all of them pitched in mixing the mortar and even laying block.
It's amazing to see the hope in the eyes of the volunteers who were also on the job site. All of the recipients of homes must help build all of the homes that year. Some of the volunteers were even from previous years and didn't have to be there, but that chose to serve alongside this years recipients. Everyone had such incredible faith that God will provided for their needs. Some of them don't even know when, or if, a team will come build them a home, but they joyfully worked incredibly hard and shared their faith with out team. we were privalidged to share lunch of beans, rice, chicken and some salsa that had a little kick to it.
As far as the work...we've done more in one day than we have ever seen. We laid 10 courses of block and poured the columns. For those who know what I'm talking about you'll appreciate what that means. We plan to pour some flooring, a roof, and a foundation later this week. Best of all we get to tell Bible stories and play some games at a VBS held in the clinic in which we are housed. Stuart is thrilled to hand out candy and just play.
Feel free to send notes to the team via comments to the blog or my email (Mike's).
Adios!
The Mexico 2011 Team
Monday, August 8, 2011
New friends and Warm Salsa
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