Serving God in Camichines, Mexico: My Dad and the Team from BHBC

This past week brought numerous blessings of all different shapes and sizes! My wonderful dad put together a 12-man construction mission team from my home church and brought them down to do heavy work for us. Here are some of the ways they blessed us:

My Dad

Me and my Daddy :)

Of course, the top blessing for me was having my dad here! It was so good to see him and spend some time with him. The kids absolutely love him! In addition to working construction daily, he came in to our classroom and taught another Bible lesson, sang goofy songs with the kids, and taught them a little about writing. Thanks Dad, for all your hard work in organizing the team and bringing them down! Love you!

Dad singing his famous "Bind Us Together Lord"

Mr. Scripture
Back in the olden days...when I was a junior higher...there was this really cool guy named "Mr. Scripture" who used to come in and motivate us to memorize as much of the Bible as we could. Years later, this very same Mr. Scripture walked into our classroom here and used his motivational skills to encourage our students in their memorization challenge. Thanks Phil for all your hard work and for loving our kids! They can't stop talking about "Mr. Scripture!" :) It's fun to see everything come full circle.

Mr. Scripture in full costume!

Mr. Scripture reciting Psalm 34 with the kids

Construction
Wow...I don't even know where to begin on this one! The guys KILLED themselves to get as much done as they could. After a whole night of traveling and few to no hours of sleep, they still couldn't wait to start on the projects as soon as they arrived! I'll attempt to put together a list of what they accomplished in a mere five and a half days, but I'm sure I'm missing some:

For our future school building:

Set up plumbing and electrical
Leveled and poured cement for two large rooms
Poured cement for second floor
Hoisted and set beams for the roof

For the second floor of the shelter:

Leveled three rooms
Tiled two rooms
Primed/painted three rooms
Set up and tiled a small laundry room
Set up plumbing and electrical
Cleared all three rooms

Misc:

Gathered rocks to be laid for a cobblestone road out near the property
Cleared a third floor room in preparation for further work
Making water trips to keep enough water in our tanks for the week
Feeding/watering the animals in the fields

The whole crew! THANK YOU!!!

Thanks so much gentlemen, for your godly examples this week and your incredible work ethics! The students learned a lot about working hard from watching you! You were a blessing to us all!