They flew in last Saturday and we hit the road running on Sunday visiting ejidos for prayer services and testimonies. There were three separate ejido evangelization teams; Andrea and I led one of them.
Night 1: Tanque San Vicente
Gallo and I playing music
Translating my first testimony!
Night 2: Narigua
Night 3: Guelatao
This Ejido has it's own youth group. There were so many kids there!
The group handed out toys to the kids here.
Night 4: Mogote
Martina, a local mexican who loves to come to the Ejidos with us, is always entertaining!
She also found a donkey in Mogote she decided to ride!
The group was able to witness the brush making as well.
(The people in the Ejidos often make these types of brushes for a source of income.
They are made from a certain plant in the desert.)
With the number of people that came we were able to start two work projects.
The first is for a woman named Erika. Her husband was killed a few months ago in a bus accident. She is now a single mother of three. She asked us to help her with an addition on the back of her house so she could move her kitchen there. With the room where her kitchen is now she wants to open a "papeleria" (small office supply store) so she can better support herself and her children.
This room is what we are finishing.
The team from work project 1
The maistros finishing the top of the walls making them ready for Morillos.
Installing Morillos
Cleaning nails from the tablitas making them ready to nail onto the roof. (the tablitas we use which are the least expensive are just busted apart pallets...very resourceful!)
Adding gravel and leveling out the dirt making it ready for a concrete floor.
Mixing concrete...by hand of course!
The second project is a house here in General Cepeda that is in really poor condition. The roof barely had enough morillos to hold it up and wasn't even finished when it was originally put on. The ceiling heights were pretty low and they don't have any power.
Mixing concrete to raise the wall height.
One wall was adobe and so we mixed mud to raise that wall as well.
Installing Morillos.
Gonzalo directing as always....
Michael directing...or something... :-)
De-nailing some more.
And More
Installing tablitas
Eliza: "Daddy can I come on the roof please!?"
Daddy: "I suppose."
We had to remove some block to widen the front door opening. The door to be installed was wider than the existing.
Bonus project! Eric found this couple who didn't have any furniture in their room. They had a mattress, but didn't use it because they didn't want to ruin it by setting it on the floor. So they slept on the floor. So, a couple people from the group bought some lumber and made them a bed frame.
Other Photos.....
The group has a regular Tuesday night praise and worship meeting which they continued here in Mexico.
Icecream on a hot summer afternoon.
Pretty decent shot of the Saltillo Cathedral
Hilltop view of General Cepeda
After the prayer service in Narigua we visited a mountain which contains "petroglyphs" (rock carvings made by the indians.) Eliza while climbing found a cactus! Poor thing....
Chore time!
I started teaching one of the local youth some of the songs we sing at the Ejidos.
Lucy doing her thing!
The last morning some members of the group decided to climb the mountain and witness some of God's beutiful creation. What a view! General Cepeda is under the fog at this moment.
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