Most of my time in the field so far has been spent in Arizona on the Apache Reservation. On Saturday I had the opportunity to work with a couple of groups for a day trip. Both of these groups are "regulars" coming down at least once a month. How great is that?! They pretty much knew what to do at the work sites, I worked to get the materials they needed and then got to talk with them, the families we were building for and one of the pastors on our Mexican pastor board.
Alicia, the grandmother at one of the sites really seemed to enjoy chatting with me...and laughing at my lack of Spanish vocabulary. She and some of her grandchildren made us some chicken with rice and mole sauce and cool drinks. They were very thankful to be receiving the house so their family could stay together and insisted that I come to visit saying "mi casa es su casa"..."my house is your house."
One of our pastors helped us get some materials for the other location. He lived close so I stopped by to see where he and his wife and daughter live. They are working to finish some of their living areas and he joked that it may be a couple of years, but the invite was there again, "mi casa es su casa."
How humbling it is to have multiple invites and genuine gratitude when we come for a day to work on a house and share a little bit of life together.
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