no.440 140715 Thank you for the day of construction

Students hard at work on the site

Day 2 (written in Mexico)

It was a day of construction. The construction was very different from last year, as we are not building a house. We are doing foundational works, which involves a lot of breaking, digging, shoveling dirt and rocks. I was thankful and impressed by the team for all the hard work and willingness they demonstrated today. I felt bad for being absent for the most part because I had to run errands with pastor Rolando for the team. On the other hand, I got to spend some time with Rolando. I thought my Spanish was good enough for the children (I barely speak anything and its embarrassing to even say that I speak, but still I think its a big improvement from when I was here last year). But I realized the need to learn Spanish today. I gotta learn the language if I want to talk more things with Rolando. On the car rides, we had to depend on the Google translator and also use our body language. But I think we got across the main points, at least that's what I think.

In terms of construction, our team finished what was to be done in three days! Thank God for giving us the strength and the heart to do such work! Tomorrow, we will continue construction and we will be going to Rolando's church for the Wednesday service, where our team will be sharing some testimonies and perform a skit or two. Please keep our team in your prayers!

Gracias y buenas noches!

no.91 130730 Thank you for the construction day

Our team is done for the day.
We've been building a house on a high, high hill. I don't know the name of the region, but it takes about half an hour from the Korean church where we're staying at. The more we drove up on the hill, the poorer the neighbourhood was.

It looked like a garbage dump. We met the family whom we are building the house for. The kids were playing on the ground with their broken toys beside glass bottles. I wish I canp show you a photo of what the house/ the neighbourhood looks like. But I gotta wait until I get home! I was so heart broken that I teared up when I saw how they were living. It is something that I've seen before on TV, but it was definitely different when I saw it in person. You really don't know what it's like until you see it with your eyes in front of you.

We have completed putting up the two walls on the sides, and we also managed to put up the roof on top. We started the facade and placed a window on it. We stared about 9AM and went on until 6PM. Thankfully it wasn't too sunny nor rainy, so the weather was perfect for a construction work. I'm thankful for today's work that God did through us, and I'm also thankful that no one got injured.

Please pray for us that we will complete the house for God's glory, and that God will grant us safety and physical health. I pray for the good weather as well. I also pray that through that one house, the family of the house as well as the neighbourhood will be open hearted in coming to know God. I pray that the house will be a blessing for the family and the neighbourhood.