Monday morning Loren left Waco Tx to bring us some of our beans that are stored up at Rick Caywood Ministries warehouse.  Raul and I took a load of siding to Mexico and returned by the time Loren arrived. We unloaded the 10 thousand pounds of beans from his truck and then Loren took us out to dinner. Ahh the gift of receiving!!! Sometimes , no a lot of times, God has brought people into our lives and ministry to bless us. Loren bought himself a heavy duty pick up truck and pulls Ricks trailer all for the Lord. He brings us food and things from Waco, picks up rice in Houston when we need it, and all for no charge. He won't take any money for fuel or nothing. He has the gift of giving and it's always a joy to have him spend night with us when he comes down.
   Yesterday Paula had her sewing class and Carol Hoeppner from Manitoba Canada joined us for the day. After the sewing class, they had their first Zumba class for the ladies in the colonia. They seemed to have fun with it and about 10 women were there. The four new sewing machines that were donated to the ministry came last week and Paula and the girls are so happy to have working sewing machines. Again, someone was here from Chicago last month, and saw the need for new machines and bought them and shipped them to us. Thanks Mark for hearing the Holy Spirits voice and then DOING what He said. You see we all hear Gods voice, in His word, a still small voice in our heart, being confronted with a need, a message in church, a song, God has His ways of getting our attention. But the blessing comes when we hear and obey.
   Yesterday we poured the foundation for Alberto and Theresas house. Alberto has said that he would help us build houses if we would build him one. He helped all last week on Juan Louis house and had his foundation all ready for cement, so we poured it yesterday. After that we came across Amelia who is a cancer survivor. She has been moving around from family and friends houses since we've known her. She is divorced and going through chemo once a week. We pray for her often and someone gave her a house to call her own the other day. Trouble is, it's a piece of crap of a house. But yesterday afternoon, Johnny, Diego, Juan Louis and I took everything out of it, and installed some boards around the perimeter and today we will pour cement and give her a solid floor. I'll put a few windows in it and a new door, a new bed, stove, some dishes and few other things she may need and call it home.