Home Sweet Home

We received our mission assignment!  We will be spending next year in General Cepeda, Mexico at FMC's mission house!  FMC has been spreading the word of God in this area of Mexico off and on for about 30 years.  Some time ago an old house (actually older than the united states) came up for sale for a really good price; Frank and Genie summers purchased the building for use as a mission house.  It is called the Casa de Missiones (mission house in spanish :-) )  There are several established ministries at the house.  Many people in need in this community will come to the door if they need food, medicine, help with their houses, or anything that they can't find help for normally.  I have attached a couple pictures here:

Front

 Courtyard

Plaza Across the Street

One of the projects we have been working on while we are here is building a new chapel for a rancho about 20 minutes out of town.  David helped lay some of the cinder block and pour the concrete in the corners.  They have installed the concrete floor and the roof since.  The roofs are wood with plastic laid on top and then about 4" of dirt on top of that.  

Mixing Concrete for Steps

Pouring Step

Shoveling dirt in buckets to life to the roof

 The main focus of our mission is to bring Jesus to the Ranchos.  The ways we accomplish this is through communion services, bible studies, teachings on Jesus, and providing retreats.  Usually we will visit several ranchos on Sunday as well as several during the week in the evenings.  Here are a couple photos of what these look like:

 This chapel had no light so we finished the service with a phone light!

We need to learn Spanish ASAP!

For desert day yesterday we went to a mountain rancho call La Casita.  It was a beautiful place!  They actually had grass.  We had to take a winding mountain road to get there.  I tried to provide a glimpse of the place: