The well has been dug!!

I want to thank the Lord first and those that gave through White Sands Baptist Church for the $2200 that paid for the well, pressure tank, motor, UV light water filter and etc.  We weren’t able to completely bring in the well as some complications arose with the actual finishing of it due to the depth of the well.  In order to assure that we had adequate water pressure entering into our “artesian” well we had to take some extra measures that required more time.  I really wanted to be able to finish the well for Bro. Charles and his church back home so that they could return home with that “job accomplished” feeling.  We greatly appreciate their sacrifice for coming and that of those who gave for this project.  We will be finishing it ourselves as soon as we possibly can when we get back to Jáltipan.

Setback for our visitors

Pastor Charles Burnham and David Lee from White Sands Baptist of New Hebron, MS and Marsha Hayes and Heather Yates from Union Baptist of Raleigh, MS visited to help with the well project.  Within the first few hours of Marsha’s and Heather’s arrival, they were robbed while we were at dinner.  While we were eating, some professionals literally popped the lock out of the door of the van, entered, and stole four backpacks.  The contents were two passports and newly obtained Mexican tourist visas, a laptop, I-phone, two cameras, around $700 USD, and some prescription meds.  This happened around 11:00 PM.  We had to go to the Justice Department to fill out a report and a warrant in order for Marsha and Heather to have some type of documentation in hand as to why they no longer possessed a passport or visa.  We finally arrived at our home in Jáltipan around 5:30 Wednesday morning.

               

This set us back on the whole agenda for the trip but we still got a lot done and the group was a real help to us.  The ladies scraped and painted some walls and were able to put on a program telling the story of Genesis with balloons in the afternoon Bible club that we have recently started in our garage.  The kids really had a good time!

Pictured here are:

David Lee from White Sands Baptist, Marsha Hayes from Union Baptist, Pastor Charles Burnham from White Sands Baptist, and Heather Yates from Union Baptist