Friday July 5

3 Things I am thankful for:
1. Washing machines
2. Clothes dryers
3. Sunshine

Today was a different kind of work day. Melissa, Lexie, and I stayed behind when the work crew headed out. There was work to be done at the center. We had four jobs - laundry, baking cookies, mopping the floor, and pulling weeds. When we woke up at 6:30am it was raining! This is the rainy season in Mexico. And it rained most of the morning. Back home we would be praising the rain, however we had seven loads of laundry that needed to be washed then dried on the clothesline. That does not work well in the rain. We needed to mop the floor. However, there are several leaky spots in the roof so we could not clean those areas until the rain stopped. Which also meant we couldn't wash the towels that were cleaning up the drips either. So we started some laundry anyway and began baking cookies. We made 6 batches of cookies. The cookies are for the work days and for Saturday morning. On Saturday morning, we will be visiting some children and another church nearby. They have activities and feed the kids. Someone in our group suggested we also make PB & J sandwiches to give the kids to take home after. It is a poor area and anything to help would be appreciated. Lexie did an awesome job on the cookies and they turned out amazingly well. Since we are at a higher altitude, there are some adjustments that have to be made to the cooking or baking.

With the three of us, our jobs progressed quite easily and quickly. After lunch the sun came out and began drying the clothes. Of course that also meant we had sunshine while we were pulling weeds as well.

For the crew at the work site, they had the privilege of unloading 10,000 bricks onto the top of the building(the roof is at street level).

Friday evening after supper we loaded up and drove to Ixtlahuacan to show the Jesus film in the town square. The square had several vendors and we tried a filled Churro. It was very tasty with strawberry or caramel filling!
The film is about two hours in length and I was surprised how many stayed to the end. It was in Spanish, but it was the first time I have ever seen the film so it was interesting to watch the story of Jesus condensed into two hours! We learned tonight that there are no free public bathrooms in Mexico. If you have to go it will cost you 3 pesos! But they will give you toilet paper.