Break from Spanish study for me... quick update for you

Sunday was a pretty easy going day. Hung out with some of the boys and took the day off.

Yesterday on the other hand, was a little different. I woke up and waited at the border for and hour and fifteen minutes to get through. Then I raced over to Calexico for another Sentri interview. Due to God’s grace and providence they did not realize I was missing a document they had required. Thankfully, I was able to escape and get my pass. Now I’ll wait 2-3 weeks in the border line for shipping. :-) Haha always an adventure when dealing with governments.

After getting home, I sat in on a little art class here at the orphanage. Madi’s mom is visiting and is a talented artist. She was showing the younger boys ways in which they can improve their drawings and add detail to their art. Just sitting in on the class, I learned a few new tricks myself.

Today has been chores around the ranch (orphanage). Watering plants and working on some agricultural parts of the orphanage, took up a good part of the morning. In addition Fr. Michael wants me to hang up some items in the church, Cross, candles etc. Since they can’t be right against the wall, I have to create a barrier a spacer of sorts between the items and the wall. I’m trying to search down a couple 2x4s, sand and paint them. In the end I’ll be putting clips on the wood to attach the Cross and candles. A simple job, but I just discovered we are destitute of all 2x4s! Everyone who has been down here before probably is gasping at the thought, but due to some recent construction projects we don’t have any. I’m going to head off to the hardware store later today and grab a couple things.

Since doing some measuring and prep for that all, I’ve been studying Spanish…

*Knock on door*
A couple minutes later…

I just talked with Fr. Michal about the church project and the Spanish. He just asked me to head down and clean up one of our guest trailers for a visitor coming tomorrow. I’ll head off to that!

Under His Mercy

Joel

PS – Thank you to everyone who emailed and wrote on my facebook wall on my saints day yesterday.