This Thanksgiving, the annual pilgrimage from my home church, Our Father, in Centennial Colorado came loaded up with turkey and all the trimmings for the 16th year. As usual, the group planned to cook and serve meals on both sides of the border. They served here on Thanksgiving day, prepared food for Cristo Rey on Friday, and also served at San Lucas in Anapra on Friday, then served at Santisima Trinidad on Saturday.
Because of all the news about the Juarez, the group elected to avoid the downtown corridor, which meant the market would come to them here at the mission on Thursday and they would have a little extra free time for fun and homework if needed.
They also tackled some of the projects on campus we are working on. They were able to tile another room in the dorms (that reminds me, I need to go fix the door and put the threshold on that room), painted the parking blocks with reflective paint so people (ME) wont trip over them and almost have a bad fall, Painted the outside windows and doors of the kitchen and did a little cement work.
Pretty good for this group, but they seem to have it down to a science.
Enjoy the pics, I'll try and get some more blogs up soon, but I have 283 pages to read for school and 2 projects to work on, so who knows. Blessings on your week.Natalie and Elise may have been a little tired from the drive.
Cake team.
Rolling silverware
Erin getting her "paint on". The paint crew was SUPER FAST
Chef Zach, who learned an important fact about Joe Sakic at dinner one night.
Jens was loving his apron
The line of people as we got ready to serve on campus
About to enjoy his meal
Serving team
Full house
They also made bags of candy for the kids at the mission sites. We used to pinatas, but that was very dangerous and people were getting hurt, so now each kid gets a bag. They get their hands marked and if they try to wash it off, Mireya would catch them.
One of the service projects for Friday and Saturday: tiling room B in YLM building #12.
Nick using his engineering skills
You have heard of where's Waldo? Well, where's Chris?
The service at San Lucas.
Getting excited for some Turkey
Happy diners
The salsa queen. Terry has become an excellent salsa maker. People don't believe it is homemade.
6 mo. old Luna (Panchis's granddaughter) and Abram (Gaby's boyfriend).
We like cake
Thank you
Passing out the candy through a window to keep it orderly
Serving at Santisima.
Genesis, we built a house for her Grandparents or Uncles or something. She is great.
OOOOH. I am full
The cake serving was getting a little out of control, so I had to step in and create order again. All ran smooth from there.
One of my new buds, he ate A LOT of turkey
Thanks to Erin for the pictures.
Good to see these up on the chillonamission blog. Looks like it was an awesome time for all. The reviews on this end have been so positive! Miss you guys!
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