Thursday
Hello again,
Sorry it has been a while since I have had the opportunity to post some people's personal messages. It has been hard to post pictures, as the connection is slow and the computer is having problems (should have bought a mac!).
Everything is going very well here, as we are getting a lot of work done. The guys at the church are busy welding away and have been working since 5 AM. One of the winches broke and they took a trip to Ensenada to find a new one. Instead of getting one, they hired a boom truck to pick them up and place them into their correct positions. It is an extra expense we weren't anticipating, but we felt it was worth it because of time and safety.
The rest of us have been hard at work at the Casa and the houses. I'll tell you guys, if I have half as much energy as Dave or Don Mars at their age, I'll be in good shape. Those guys are incredible workers. We have been busy digging a septic tank in the back of Pilar's house. Luckily the dirt here is pretty soft, although occasionally we hit boulders the size of watermelons.
The kids have been great this year- in fact we got left with 30 of the little monkies last night. (They are still pretty good, even when Juanita is not there- which is amazing!) All the girls took off to the women's Bible study and left Tom, Ralph, Heath, Dell, Fred and Dave to watch them. They climed all over the place and used Dell as a jungle gym. Fred and I twirled the rope around for the kids and they had a little jumping contest. About 2 hours in we were headed for the gate! It's okay though, we had a good time.. and no one was serously hurt (one kid fell off the slide, but Heath and I bandaged him up pretty well). All-in-all an interesting evening.
Everything else is going fine. A group left today for the migrant camp with Rudy. We have joined a group here from North Bend. They are a pretty good group and will be eating with us and doing VBS for the kids. Should be fun.
Now on to some more pictures....
-Billy
Today
Sorry it has been a while since I have had the opportunity to post some people's personal messages. It has been hard to post pictures, as the connection is slow and the computer is having problems (should have bought a mac!).
Everything is going very well here, as we are getting a lot of work done. The guys at the church are busy welding away and have been working since 5 AM. One of the winches broke and they took a trip to Ensenada to find a new one. Instead of getting one, they hired a boom truck to pick them up and place them into their correct positions. It is an extra expense we weren't anticipating, but we felt it was worth it because of time and safety.
The rest of us have been hard at work at the Casa and the houses. I'll tell you guys, if I have half as much energy as Dave or Don Mars at their age, I'll be in good shape. Those guys are incredible workers. We have been busy digging a septic tank in the back of Pilar's house. Luckily the dirt here is pretty soft, although occasionally we hit boulders the size of watermelons.
The kids have been great this year- in fact we got left with 30 of the little monkies last night. (They are still pretty good, even when Juanita is not there- which is amazing!) All the girls took off to the women's Bible study and left Tom, Ralph, Heath, Dell, Fred and Dave to watch them. They climed all over the place and used Dell as a jungle gym. Fred and I twirled the rope around for the kids and they had a little jumping contest. About 2 hours in we were headed for the gate! It's okay though, we had a good time.. and no one was serously hurt (one kid fell off the slide, but Heath and I bandaged him up pretty well). All-in-all an interesting evening.
Everything else is going fine. A group left today for the migrant camp with Rudy. We have joined a group here from North Bend. They are a pretty good group and will be eating with us and doing VBS for the kids. Should be fun.
Now on to some more pictures....
-Billy
Today
