Mexico

The dirtiest kid in Mexico

Here's the jobsite. Three houses went up on this small cul de sac. Our site was the first on the left. Those old garage doors are the shack that Roberto Gomez took down the night before we arrived. Those garage doors housed his family of six. They had very few personal belongings, but did have running water on the site and a shelter for a toilet. Our group of 25 were on the jobsite by 8 AM, mixed (by hand) a concrete slab, and poured it by 1 oclock. Meanwhile the cutting and framing for the walls occured. We left the jobsite in the early evening, went back to camp, then got up for more the next day. On the second day we put up the walls and roof. Roofed the roof with tar paper and put on the trim work, installed 2 windows and two doors, then wrapped the house with wire. The follwoing Saturday another group arrived to stucco the house for the Gomez family. Roberto Gomez was humbled and cried we when handed him over the keys to his new home. The Gomez's do not yet know Jesus, but I have a sneakin' suspicision one day he will hold Bible studies in his house.

I had a lot of personal growth on this trip. I will spare you the details, but I was so thankful to have been able to spend the time with teh pastor of my youth, and glean a fresh understanding of myself from him.

Kenzie building her own house. She sat down and worked on this for the good part of an hour. When I finally asked what she was building, she said "A house for you, Momma".

The cleanest kid in Mexico. I have no idea how she did it. She worked just as hard as the rest of us, but had very little dirt on her. The rest of us were covered!

I leave you with a bit of plumber's crack!