Visitors from Austin

Aaron has a friend in Matamoras, Mexico.  He and his wife live there and are missionaries.  They run a preschool and also tutor older kids in English.  They had a group come down this week to volunteer and work, and the group was a little large for the projects they had planned.  So his friend wondered if we could take about 9 of them and find some work for them to do.  Of course!  There's always work to do!  The village we work in, Revolucion has many things that could be done to bless people.  The church building we are meeting in is one room.  Recently they have added on a room to the back of the building so the children could meet there during the service.  It has been done for a while, done meaning "roughed in", all cement block.  A family we know from Michigan donated all the money needed to buy stucco to finish it (it wasn't going to be finished for awhile til they had more money).  So the men worked and finished the inside before the group came, and the group did all the painting.  They painted a Noah's Ark theme.  I don't know if the pix do any justice but it turned out sooooo cute!  And the kids love it!  Under the rainbow, we had them do handprints with their names and they just loved it!  The group also brought crafts to do with the kids and we ran the after school program extra long and both the days the group was painting.  So the teenagers in the group helped the kids with the crafts, sang all the songs together with lots of energy, and practiced their Spanish most of them were taking in high school!  :-)  Our kids got to practice their English introducing themselves and asking some intro questions like "how are you," "how old are you," "what's your name."  It was great practice for them to speak with other people besides us and practice.  And the teenagers were great with them!  What a fun time for all!