It has been quite some time since we have updated our blog. I have either felt too busy to do it or that nothing of importance has happened to write about. Emily graduated from Utah State University in December so she is now trying to keep busy and look for a job. Joey is finishing up his last semester of school, he is excited to be done but is learning a lot this semester.
Back to December:
After finals we headed up to Park City to spend some time at a timeshare that Emily's parents have up there. We were able to relax in the hot tubs, play in the indoor/outdoor pool, watch movies, read, and just lounge around. At this point we had decided that we didn't have the money to go on our yearly trip to Tijuana and since we went twice last year we thought that we should stay in Logan/Bear Lake and earn some money. Well we received a phone call from Gordon Carter (the founder of Charity Anywhere Foundation) and he tells us that he needs us in Tijuana. After discussing it we decided that we had to go. We missed all of our friends, the amazing food, and we love serving the wonderful people in Tijuana. We had about a week to get ready to go, which is the reason I don't like to make plans they change very quickly for us. Every year I am amazed at how different our experience is but still how amazing it is. We worked in an area of Tijuana called La Gloria with Miguel and his family. Miguel's house is built right up next to a wall of dirt (the mountain was cut into for his house to be built). The weather down there has been very wet which has led to a lot of runoff, which has caused the dirt to fall in large clumps and they are afraid that it will fall into their house and ruin it. We attempted to help Miguel build a retaining wall to prevent any damage to his house. This ended up being quite the adventure. We were covered in mud most of the week. We began by digging a trench and bailing out water so that we could begin our footings. It was so wet that this took a lot longer than planned. Then on Wednesday it rained all day so Miguel told us that he did not feel comfortable with us behind his house with the weather and the possibility of falling dirt and rocks. Joey and I headed over to the orphanage and began helping them build a preschool with another group. We were really proud of everyone for toughing out the rain and cold and working almost all day long until Gordon told us that we need to go back to the clinic and get out of the rain. We spent the rest of the week laying the footings. Then Saturday after everyone else left we returned to Miguel's house to find a massive chunk of the wall fallen down onto our re-bar and footings. Luckily the footings were down and dry it made it easier to dig it all out. We really enjoyed this year in Mexico again and we truly are addicted to Charity Anywhere and serving in Tijuana.
(Pictures to come when I get a hold of Joey's laptop or just look on Joey's facebook page).
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