It rained and poured last night! This morning there was some apprehension over what we would find at the building site – wet mattresses, soggy insulation, etc. My apprehension was how I was going to play on the muddy ground with lots of children.
Just FYI, our build site is south of San Quintin on the Baja peninsula of Mexico. Our family is composed of four people: Reyna (32), Miriam (14), Monserrat Itzel (12), Erobiel Geovani (11), and Dulce (7). It’s been fun to get to know them as the week has gone on.
Today in the construction zone we finished the roof: put the boards on, tar and two layers of roofing. Inside we put the drywall on and finished one coat of bright green paint.
Mom stayed home and made some beautiful curtains for a Church near our house that had had the old ones stolen recently. They are orange and sparkly and sheer. I think they’ll fit in really well here in Mexico. She also made some cookies and fresh muffins which were lovely to come home to!
We have a Mexican cook for our suppertime meals, and she makes wonderful food and lots of it!!! We could probably feed 3 to 4 times as many people with the food we get every day. So, we’ve been feeding last night’s leftovers to our neighbour kids and families at the construction site. It’s nice to be able to give away our extras and know that they are appreciated!
Tonight was another Church service. It was great again, mostly in Spanish, but translated into English for us. Pretty awesome. Mike played some special music for the offering. He actually played my favourite song of his… one he wrote just after Bible school. It’s called “Here I am”, and it really speaks to me. I’m so glad he played that one.
We’re all pretty tired again today. I have quite a sore back and shoulders from kids being on my back a lot, so today I mostly banned that. I’m just too sore. We played other games, like hide and seek, football, and a new game for me: wolf. I don’t totally understand it, but it starts out with a version of ring around the rosie, and you sing a song, then ask the wolf a question, and if he answers yes, the wolf chases us. The first person who is caught is the next wolf. It was fun. I continue to enjoy learning bits of Spanish: a globo (balloon), libre des colores (colouring book), buertes (airplane ride), capuchi (piggy back ride), no entiendo (I don’t understand). I use the last one a lot! Anyway, it’s been fun, and it’s always good to see how much work gets done in one day!
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