Sunday, August 7, 2011

a new day

We awoke a little later this morning. We had a great meal and hit the road to work on finishing the home for the Perez-Castillo family. Roberto is the father. He works 7 days a week 8-9 hours a day 2nd makes $80 per week. He has 4 kids and a really adorable wife Elisabeth. She was SO grateful for the work we had done and she was really happy to see us this morning. Once we pulled up to the house we were greeted by vendors who wanted to sell us a bunch of stuff. So we did what any good American would do and we bought a bunch of things from them. I found a Mexican style sweatshirt that is camouflage. It should work well in the woods, not so well for hiding in Mexico.

We finished the house today and had a ceremonial gifting of the keys to the family. It was a truly great moment. The house is beautiful. The kids did an amazing job this week. They took a great sense of ownership over accomplishing and building that house. Stucco is not a favorite work around camp. Some say they saw stucco when they closed their eyes...

Tomorrow, since we finished early we are going to pour and finish the foundation slab for a new house. We will see how that goes. Cliff did a great job supervising.

Jono, our Australian host from Amor, wants to pass some time with us so he is going to come to Disneyland with us. I was able to score 7 free tickets and a
10 discount on the rest of the tickets so it won't cost anything for him to come with us. Jeff shared, we prayed and then we all played a fun game together. It will be interesting to see the growth in the kids as we bookend our time in Mexico with pouring concrete. I'm certain that we will be done pouring much quicker this time than last.

Looking forward to what the Lord has for us tomorrow.
Love ya, Chris.

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