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Monday, September 3, 2007

More Pictures

This was where our friends lived and the results of the mudslide.

This was the giving of the gift ceremony/service.

UPDATE: Sorry for the wacky text. I lost connectivity.

We're on our way back from our very long day. It's midnight and we've got an hour ride back. We started the day early with devotions, had breakfast and then were off to our first of two services with our Mexican friends. The first service was held at the Santa Cruz community center and the second was held at the Jalalpa center.

The second service was special in that we were able to give the families that lost all their belongings the furniture we help build for them. It was a very emotional service and very satisfying.

After the service we piled the 80 pieces of furniture into a moving truck for delivery. Before we left we gave each family a cooked chicken (from a local Costco no less), a couple of loaves of bread and a liter of coke. We then proceeded to all go over their temporary dwelling to have dinner with them. It almost looked like the scene from the movie "It's A Wonderful Life" when they helped move Mr. Martini into his new home.

Each one of us were assigned a family. All of the non-Spanish speaking memebers of our team (which is most of them) were quite nervous. If you didn't know Spanish it was pretty much hand signals. It was great for me ;-) I brought my guitar, we ate, laughed, sang songs... we had a great time.

I've posted pictures below this entry. We're coming home Tuesday evening.

I'm missing Blue Eyes more than I can say.