Sorry for being such a lazy blogger lately, time gets away from me while I'm here! Since I posted last I have worked on one house and have done tons of local outreaches. The last couple weeks there have not been teams at camp so all of us interns have been doing lots of classes, devotionals and activities around camp.
The second house I built was with a team from California and we built for a family with 4 daughters and a baby boy. It was a fun week where I spent lots of time learning how to frame, and try construction that I didn't try last year. It was a crazy build because it was only 3 days instead of 4 but we had an amazing, hard-working team. I found out that I went to the same high school with one of the girls on the team for 2 years! Small world! They did some really cool things for the family, they built a kitchen and brought in many things to make the house a home. During the dedication the dad shared of his struggle with drugs, saying that he did drugs sometime, but not a lot, only a little. Later in the day he accepted the Lord!
As interns we were all assigned outreaches to lead. The outreach I was leading was to a place called Casa de Gabriel and my friend Perla was the other intern assigned to lead. Casa de Gabriel is a children's home for handicapped and disabled children. We planned to put on a puppet show, made cupcakes and planned to spend time with the kids. This outreach was emotionally very stretching. It was such a good and eye-opening experience but also a very hard one. The workers there work incredibly hard and have such huge hearts for these kids. It was an extremely humbling outreach and one that took us out of our comfort zones and made us take on new perspectives. The second outreach I helped lead was to an orphanage in Uruapan, about an hour away from yugo. We went and spent about 2 hours playing with the kids there.
Since there aren't teams in, we went camping 2 weeks ago! It was SO fun. We camped about 40 minutes from camp at a really cool "secret" location. We played games, ate around the fire, saw whales and climbed around all the rocks. It was one of the prettiest places I've seen and it was so fun to have time with all the interns away from camp.
This last week has been pretty busy around here. A new family arrived here from Canada and we helped them move in and painted inside their house. Last saturday we had a party for Sandy and Mark who are getting married in a few months in Canada. We helped at a mother's day event thursday and a local church had an event here today.
That's it for now :)
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