The past couple of days have been quite eventful for our group....quite eventful. Hang gliding, Helicopters, Small excursions into the mexican frontier. Just kidding. But we have been on the go nonstop since monday, losing sleep and getting to know many of the children at El Retiro Juvenil, a children's home Back2Back partner's with. All of monday was spent at El Retiro digging ditches, painting buildings, and assembling drywall, not to mention avoiding all of Greg's group so that we didn't catch the ole montezuma's revenge. Eck. We spent the evening packing over 100 kids into a bus made for 36 people and having a vacation bible school in the side yard of a local church. It has been incredible to hold, encourage, and show love to some kids who have no one to love or guide them. Believe me though when I say it hasn't been easy. God will really try you if you ask Him. We had known going into the night that we would be staying at El Retiro and we also knew that we couldn't take our bedding due to the risk of lice, etc...That's totally cool to think, "yeah I can take it," "I've roughed it before" and such, but seriously, this was rediculous. No fans, no windows, no sheets, dogs barking, roosters crowing, bugs crawling. I stared at the ceiling for almost 4 hours. The dog, "Puppy" pronounced "Poopy," was cute barking at who-knows-what for the first 25 minutes. But I know Chad James reached a point where killing the one-eyed, three-legged dog was not out of the question. To be honest, Monday and Tuesday ran together. Continuing to dig ditches, put up drywall and the like. However, we did manage to light a beanie babie on fire. Anything to get across the point that Jesus loves you huh? Anyway, we're working hard and really living our worship here with our brothers and sisters in Mexico. Peace to the middle east.
josh.
