Mexico Missions Trip---a bit delayed :)

I know this happened during winter break but I wanted to talk about my trip to Mexico with CSF. We went down the Juarez Mexico with about 25 or so people in two vans...that was pretty much amazing! I got to know so many of the upper class men on a very intimate level--we all slept on each other, smelled together, and didn't shower together. it was a very interesting week!
Here are some pictures of what went on during the drive...

obviously tons of sleeping..


tons of reading and chatting..and of course picture taking...
Once we got to Juarez it was a whole different experience. We went down to build a house with Casas por Christo. While we were down in Mexico we stayed at a local church and didn't shower. we did have a few guys brave the cold water though. While we were building the house on the second day we were there it started to snow! so for the rest of the day we went to the market. that was a very interesting experience too because everyone was urging us to come look at their stuff..in some points it got me sort of stressed out. i didn't like telling people no. :/
After the snow melted and we dried all of our clothes we went back to another day's work. My team consisted of Lindsey, Lauren, Hal, David, and Brian..here's a picture of the girls



my team had the job of getting the interior of the house done....so while everyone was hard at work on the outside we were putting up insulation and dry wall...and putting the electrical wires in. we had help from the amazing Marks, Mark Walker and Mark Turner!!

we were so excited on the last day when we were able to present the house to the family! This is the entire group in front of the house--our last day in Mexico..

while on the trip we went to a rest stop so we could release some "extra baggage" lol...and we found that the girls bathroom was closed so all of the girls were forced to use the men's bathroom..we thought it was so amazing that we took a picture, by the way..the guys bathroom was really dirty and there was no ceiling!



The trip to Mexico was an experience that i will never forget...it was my first "true" missions trip and i was able to learn so much from the people who went with...and i know its cliche but we ended the trip as a family. The most interesting part on the trip was wanting nothing more than a shower and warm water but also as we crossed the boarder I look back and saw myself slowly slip back to my "American" views...