Mexico Mission Mayhem

WHAT. A. TRIP. B was gone for a week and what a wild ride it was for him and the Mexico Team!

The adventures began last Sunday with an 11 hour drive to San Diego (a drive that should take 9 hours tops!) filled with rain, sleet, snow, wind and craziness! The group spent Sunday night at a church in Coronado. They arrived a little before 9pm, unloaded the cars and set up their sleeping areas and had a LATE pizza dinner before hitting the sack.

They were up bright and early Monday morning and headed out to meet the guide from Amor Ministries who would lead them across the border and to their camp. When B started up the old van he drives, the check engine light was on. This was the first of many 'obstacles' the group was faced with on Monday.

While sitting in the parking lot at the border, one of the cars in the group wound up with a dead battery. As they arrived at camp the rain started, their first work site was unreachable due to muddy, rain gutted roads, and they were cussed off of the 2nd work site by the home owners and her neighbors. With morale down and decisions to be made, the group returned to camp. Determined to actually BUILD a house, they decided they'd try for a 3rd work site on Tuesday morning, rather than doing finishing projects on homes that other groups had started.

Despite cold nights and intermittent rain throughout the week, the team completed the house at work site number 3 with the exception of the stucco. Heavy rains Thursday night caused the tar paper to rip forcing the team to wait around all morning for it to be dry enough to even think about stucco.

The promise of rain Thursday night forced the team to make yet another tough decision... Spend ANOTHER night in the rain, or head for dryer sleeping quarters which also meant coming home a day early. They scrambled to find a church in San Diego where they could spend the night, broke down camp in under an hour, and headed for Encinitas.

Exhausted but dry, they spent the night there and headed home on Friday rather than Saturday. It was a LONG trip and a tiring trip filled with challenge but I have not heard one negative comment from anyone who participated!

Congrats, Mexico Team, on a job well done!