Work is good!

Last week, five of us stayed at Casa Hogar all day, helping in the kitchen and laundry in the mornings, while Rebecca, Simone, and April went to Sobre el Puente. Rebekah, Rachel, and Amanda had a great time working in the kitchen, helping to prepare the meals for the kids. Rebekah has become a good friend of the two kitchen ladies, thanks to her eagerness to help and learn about Mexican cooking. Annie worked in the laundry all week. It is amazing how many dirty clothes 50 kids can generate! Every afternoon, there would be another batch of freshly washed clothes to hang up on the clotheslines all around Casa Hogar.
Another team arrived on Saturday, so now we are back to helping the team with construction and with activities for the kids. Beka, Rachel, and Amanda enjoyed pick-axing and shoveling away all morning. As slow as the work seems when you are chipping away at a bed of rock with a pick ax, it was cool to see how much dirt had been moved at the end of the morning. It was also encouraging when one of the girls from the team told us that the girl's dorm/dining room building, which is so nice now, was nonexistent the first time she came four years ago. It is good to be reminded that, even if we are just moving rocks now, our work combined with the work of many other workers, with the God's blessing, will result in a beautiful new boy's dorm in a few years.

Our work site



The new girl´s dorm/dining room











Praise God for giving us another week of productive work and safety. Thank God for the team that has come this week, and pray that God will give them health, safety, joy, wisdom, and successful ministry with the kids here.