Saturday, Jan 17 – Block party take dos

7:09 pm

So I just came back from a great block party in Magdalena--the one we prayed over on Thursday.  It was soo great.  A ton of people came to Christ and even more just had a blast and a great memory for their childhood.  Mike Parker mentioned that most kids out here have to grow up way too quickly so it was great to provide something pleasant that they can remember.  This morning we helped Adam's brother, Jeremiah, hang some ceiling tiles because, of course, Adam was out for the count.  Eventually seven people in a little room was just a little too much so some of us headed out and started to paint some benches...what we live for around here :)  It was good though, because most of the benches have a second coat of primer so we can get started with the actual paint.  After we got back from the block party there were about 500,000 new old people here (okay, they're not old per say, but some of them are definitely old enough to be my grandparents.  We essentially got kicked out of the dining room because their group was so big so we ate outside in the cold.  No, I'm not bitter...  actually I'm not--they had a heck of a travel day so I can definitely empathize with them.  They're here to build a new water tower on the other side of the property where the boys live.  I'm sure Casa is really excited to be getting this addition.  It'll be neat to see it go up over the next few days.