Master of Construction

Well, "Master of Construction" is probably a bit of an exaggeration...but I did get some experience in construction, Mexican style yesterday. I spent the day yesterday helping a pastor who's building a parsonage on the church property. Right now, his family is living in the Sunday School classrooms and using the church kitchen as their kitchen. His goal is to build this house so the future pastors of this church will have a proper place to stay. A youth group in March from Crystal City, MB, had raised enough money to put a roof on his house and so I went their yesterday to give him a hand in the project. Most of the work he's done on his own. Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of construction experience from back at home but fortunately it didn't really matter as there's not a lot of construction practices that carry over from our building styles at home to the building styles here in Mexico. Where everything is wood and drywall at home, everything here is concrete and plaster. So yesterday consisted of building temporary supports underneath the ceiling (which consists of these concrete "2x4's" spaced between sheets of 4" styrofoam) to support it when the concrete is poured on top, until it is dry.

This spring has gone by incredible fast out here and it's hard to believe that in exactly two weeks, I'll be taking off out of Tucson and making the flight home where I'll spend a couple of weeks and take in Brent's grad before returning here to Mexico. Of special note in the next two weeks is two opportunities to preach. The first one this coming week in the Mexican Baptist church, here in San Carlos and then the following week in the English church. No, my Spanish is not quite fluent enough yet to preach in Spanish but fortunately there's a guy who I've connected with that is quite fluent in English and can translate for me. You're prayers will be greatly appreciated!!