1 Timothy 1:5 The purpose of my instruction is that all believers would be filled with love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and genuine faith.
The home we are building for a family this week is being done as an outreach to a family near Faustino's church. They don't go to church yet, but it is our hope that they will truly be blessed by our team. We had the opportunity to have them join with us this morning as we huddled for prayer on the site and Sami translated our love and our joy to do this for them.
The neat thing this week is the mother is right in there ready to lend a helping hand whether it is painting or carrying the sheeting and helping lift it to us on the roof. We certainly have had our fair share of challenges but we continue to persevere and aren't too far behind the other teams. We can look up and see Rick's site just up the road and he makes me know it...that I'm looking up to team awesome, but that's ok because we are team #1!
Seriously though, I have to admit that it is a little intimidating having an engineer and architect on my team. They constantly pull out the papers to look at the drawings and I just tell them to put that away because that's what we do in Mexico! A lot of what we do on the homes isn't on the drawings but what has been learned through experience. I'm leaning heavily on memory from last week and so far so good...That is except when I start comparing myself to the other sites and the competitive edge can get the better of me and we start making mistakes even with the smart guys!
Thank goodness we are catching those before we get too far...
Jokingly I just to blame it on the heat... 'muy culiente' is what we say down here for really hot! The cool thing is that we all really are supporting each other and they haven't lost faith in me and we are gelling as a team.
Praying that things will continue to heat up!
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