Friday morning, Alfred and i headed across the border to buy food for the food outreach on Saturday. We went to Mi Tienda in Reynosa and filled one cart with 140 bags of sugar, and another cart with 140 bags of flour. I told the man at the store that we also needed two hundred juice boxes for the kids as well and he sent one of the employees to get that. We already bought the cooking oil last week and we had been bringing the beans and rice from home everyday. We got back to the colonia and unloaded everything, just as Carmelo and Ruth were finishing up cooking all the food for Calebs birthday party.
The table was set and we were just about ready to sit down and eat when Lupita came running in crying and a little hysterical. I thought something had happened to her son, but she said there was a huge grass fire behind her nieces house and it was spreading fast. We ran down there and started hauling buckets of water to the fire, one after another while a couple of men were chopping a fire break line through the grass. The water that was stored in the drums was running low, so Carmelo and I ran back to the house and got my generator and a submersible water pump, two hoses and within an hour we had the fire out. It was dangerously close to the wood fence around Pastor Victors Church that is built out of wood. Man what a workout!!! We soaked all the hot spots that were left smoldering and headed back to the Party.
Calebs birthday party delay was over and we all ate a great meal followed by a tres leches cake. Carmelo hung a huge pinata from the rafters at the Community Center and all the kids took a wack at it, including me. It was stiffed with all kinds of candy. Paula bought Caleb a bike for his birthday, and Caleb was so excited to get that. We knew he was hoping for one for Christmas, so now God gave him the desire of his little heart.
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