Week with the Selmer FBC Group

So I didn't get any pictures of the work project, shoveling the dirt roof off the church in La Bolsa and then mixing cement and lifting it to the roof in 5 gallon buckets to pour over the wooden rafters. I'm hoping to get the pics off Joanne's memory card, but I didn't wanna get my camera all dusty and risk breaking it :-( lame, I know... So if I get those from her, I'll put them up. It took us three days (or half days) to get it done. This next week we have a similar project on a building right beside the church at the compound in Arroyo, where we stay, except the project will be about 4 times the area of the roof we worked on this past week, so it should be a big endeavor, but a lot of fun :-) And hopefully I won't get concrete in my eye this time.... yeah, that's right. Don't worry, though, I healed up nicely with the help of some left over eye drops I had and Andrea, who is a recent graduate of optometry school! Praise God!


The drive down is 10 hours, and I make it twice every weekend to come back to Texas and meet with the groups. It's a long, but beautiful journey, and it allows me a lot of time to ask questions and make conversation with Joel (I'm usually in his passenger seat) and people from all different walks of life.

Si tuvieras fe como grano de mostaza, esto lo dice El Senor: Tu le dirias a las montanas, "Muevete! Muevete!" Y esa montana se movera movera movera....

If you have the faith of a grain of mustard, this is what says the Lord: If you tell the mountains, "Move, MOVE!!" then the mountain will move move move....

Man, I love those sunsets :-)


Rainbow! ArcoIris


Caleb telling Derek his "3 new jokes"

Translating Blair's testimony at the service!!!

This Senora cooked dinner for us on this outdoor stove with a fire fueled by corn cobs (below). The corn was used to hand make the tortillas they served us.


This is Joanne helping with the VBS craft on the 2nd day (of 3) that we were in the village of Alimitos. Everyone keeps getting us confused with our height, short blonde hair, sometimes glasses, and of course winning personalities ;-) haha She really is a delight and I enjoy hanging out with her and learning from her. She's way more mature than her 19 years.

Mascaras!

And all the little animals that Noah loaded onto his ark! haha

Me and Jenna -- total fakers, but having a great time :-)

The Selmer group helped out with VBS for 3 days in Alimitos. Here they're holding up the memory verse. We did the story of Noah's ark again this week.
Me with the Pastor's niece and nephew. Adorable!! (that's the same in Spanish!) The pastor was sister Maria. We didn't hear her preach, but it's the first female pastor I've ever met, and she told me she'd been pastor of that church for 3 years.