Mexico Mission Trip 2009

Mexico Mission Trip

OK, its been a long time in coming ad mist moving and vacations, but I wanted to do this longer post of the mission trip. Last year, Andrew was able to go with Steve and the youth group and this year both Andrew and Tori were able to go. I was a little hesitant to let Tori go, but she did fine. As in every Mexico trip Steve wanted to drive straight through which works out great if there are enough drivers, which again God provided.

The trip down consisted of sleeping and getting to know the others going down. Tori had a blast getting to know some of the youth and making friends.

Tori enjoyed her first meal of fish tacos in Ensenada. I Heard she was impressive in trying anything that was placed in front of her.

The youth ready to leave on their first work day.

The building to the left is the house they built last year. This year they added onto that one. Here they are getting the footing ready for the concrete.

Kind of looks like he's about to get frisked, but Steve is just holding up the wall as they piece the building together.

Mudding the outside.

Taping and mudding the inside. They also did wiring for possible electricity in the future.

Looking good.

Tori made friends quickly with the little girl who will live in the house. They had fun playing despite the language barrier. Tori knows a little Spanish from being in the dual language program at school, so I'm sure she was able to communicate better than most of the students that went.

Playing around.

VBS was in the late afternoon after they worked on the house in the AM and early afternoon. The group of kids was small but they had quite a few by the last day.

The Wallers on KP duty!





This is the family (the daughter is not in the picture) that the house was built for. I heard they were very Thankful for the house and very gracious with their food.




The Family and the Mission team in front of the finished house!



The last day they are there in Ensenada, they always take a trip to La Bufadora to do some touristy shopping. As you can see Andrew was less than trilled to put this hat on and get a picture. He got over it pretty quickly.

Part of the group posing for a picture. Dennis and Debbie Hollenbeck are the missionaries we work with and have worked with ever since Steve first went down back in 1996.

Steve has always enjoyed exposing teens from America to a different culture, they always come back, with a different heart. It is priceless for them to understand that people can live with "little" and survive and not only that they seemed satisfied and have the "joy of the Lord".