We leave Mexico today on june 14, the one year anniversary of my 
diagnosis with leukemia, and I am truly grateful to have been part of
such an awesome experience. One thing I have learned from my personal
experience as well ad from the people I have met in Mexico this week
is that pity is not what helps people.

The amazing women I met this week and worked with ( betty, aricelli,
luyame, miraella) are often pittied because of their poverty.
However, I have learned that the true meaning of "mission" is to form
relationships with these women, my sisters in Christ. ( MIS hermanas
in christo)

They have all taught us so much about what it means to be strong and
gracious. As we left, aricelli wept and gave each of us a big hug. She
has been working hard on other peoples houses this past year and on
Monday they will finally begin on her house. Talking to women like
aricelli this week has taught me that instead of feeling sorry for
them we can live them as hemanas in christo!

Rob the builder and roo-ger

One team, one group, one mission

Roger and kendra....the cutesy baby in world!

Pouring the roof...relaying buckets of cement!

Pouring the roof with the bucket relay

A little cement....28 loads sand, 28 loads rock, 12 bags cement

Parker, joey, William and. Colin

We love addy, our volunteer from Texas!!

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>> Colette duchanois
>> Crossing the border
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>> People said as soon as you crossed the border, you could
>> automatically tell you were in Mexico. I thought this was a bit
>> exagerrated, but it was completely true. The closer we got to the
>> border the less fast food restaurants, gas stations, and shopping
>> centers we saw. And when we crossed over, the landscape completely
>> changed, there was trash everywhere and it was very barren.
>> It was so sad to see houses that were the size of my room. And it
>> was a shock to see where we were staying. But we all adjusted
>> quickly. As soon as we got there the girls in the youth group
>> started playing with a bunch of little mexican girls. We played a
>> game where we all held
>> hands and danced around in a circle and sang a song and once the
>> song was over the person in the middle had to to tag someone. It
>> was such a cool exprience to get to play with the mexican children
>> right away. It was so much fun. It was so cool to see how mexican
>> children and american children laugh and play in the same way. It
>> was also so cool to know or languages didn't keep us from playing
>> together and understanding each other. I'm excites to see what the
>> other days in mexico have in store.
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>> Sent from my iPhone. MTb
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