Day 5 - Stories of our first day of work in Vicente Guerrero

Well, we had a very busy - but productive day! I think everyone felt like they contributed something. Here's some of the highlights from the group:

Whoa - the first day was beautiful. A picture perfect day . I had a sweet time cleaning up a floor of an unfinished house so we can lay a cement floor. It was windy so I have dirt absolutely everywhere and am looking forward to a shower. (Craig)

All I can say is wow. A lovely breakfast, followed by some hard work on the house (making mortar, laying bricks, digging very deep holes) and fish tacos for lunch (nomnomnom!!!). Then we returned to our various duties and continued until about 3:45, at which time we all went to visit a migrant camp where we found ourselves in the midst of a mob of youngsters who were incredibly cute. Dinner time now (spaghetti). (Jeremy)

All the kids just loved all the toys we brang - bouncy balls, chalk, bubbles. As soon as we got off the bus they took it from our hands right away. The bubbles were just for the kids but we also had a bit of fun with them too. ( Caitlyn & Richelle)

One elderly lady was soooooooooooooo grateful for the bag of food we were handing out to the families. She was crying as she passed me by. I said to her, "Dios te bendega" (God bless you) and she gave me a hug and couldn't say gracious enough times. From what I could understand, she was telling me she had very little or no food in her home. (Mrs. Davis)

Just a few of the stories from today. We heard (and likely you will hear more...) many more stories just like these after dinner in our closing worship/debrief time. Really a great day. Personally, this whole Mexican scene is reminding me so much about times in the New Testament - houses with "upper rooms", mothers and children pressing in on us in great need, distributing food to the poor...

It is a beautiful thing to be tired at the end of a day like this one. So full. So right.

Thanks for your continued prayers...our camp sickness is passing and sick team members are starting to get back on their feet again.

Oh...one more thing. If you've been trying to get a hold of Mr. Brown via cell phone...his service is not working as planned. For the next few days email to Mr. Nelson works best (shanen@cedars.bc.ca).