ROLLER COASTER TEMPERATURES

Last Thursday and Friday nights brought record cold temps and the propane tank mounted heaters that I bought online, kept a few families warm. The heater and tanks cost just under $100.00 and those families that had them, ran them all night. It was 28 degrees in the colonia and there was ice covering all the water barrels. This week is warm again, but the damage to our palm trees, papaya trees and all the beautiful plants and flowers Paula planted is sad. The are all wilted and clinging to life. We started buying the materials for Team Moraine coming in a few weeks. We need to tear down the existing houses next week and build the foundations.Pastor Victor has completed the walls on the Sunday School classes next to his church, so we hope it will be finished by years end. Some very nice people from Canada came thru the colonia today, blessing the kids with toys and candy and the parents with rice and beans. Do you think they ever get sick of rice and beans? Beto told me that was all he ate for years in Vera Cruz while he was growing up and him and his wife slept on the floor for three years until they could afford to buy a bed. We are so blessed to be born and raised in America we can't even imagine the poverty these people have lived with their whole life. No wonder they cried real tears when we brought them two matresses last week. They gave their old ones to another family that needed beds. ADIOS