POURING, PUPPIES, PROVISIONS AND PAINT

Today was avery busy day in the colonia as we poured a floor on a new foundation as well as pour a floor in an existing house that needed to get the family off of the dirt. It took a few hours to unload all of the cement and we had plenty of help, which we are gratefull for. FiFi had her puppies Sunday night and out of the 5 that were born, only two have survived and appear to be doing well. Mona, who came with us on Monday, bought FiFi some dog food and she really enjoyed it today as she spends most of her time with the pups in her dog house. All the provisions you see is the food we purchased Sat. at a bulk warehouse and Paula, Cindy, and Mona gave out about half of it yesterday. We are asking the men that are not working to spend the day helping us in one way or another when we give them food for thier family. Yesterday one man came and spread a load of dirt on Pastor Victors lot in exchange for the food we gave his family. It's not our regular practice to exchange food for work but sometimes I think they feel better to help us as we try to help them and that's a good thing. Finally the load of paint arrived this afternoon at a friends warehouse in Mcallen. He unloaded for us while we were in Mx. and we are very gratefull to Jim. He has a ministry of distributing food and other things to Pastors in Texas and Mexico. He drives a semi all over the country when someone has a load of food or other things to donate. One day I'll make a trip with him. We also finished the sistern today and soon we will have our bathroom built and that will be a real need met. Tommorrow Paula is having a clothes outreach at our house in Mx. and will hopefully free up some space to get the rest of the things organized. We'll be able to give out food and clothes at the same time and meet some needs in the colonia. We plan on going to Paula's Moms in about ten days but there is so much going on, it's going to be hard to leave, but we need to go now or we won't be able to until May. Thanks for the prayers that cover us as we minister here.