Mama Bearable

This will be the final update! Thanks for sticking with me through this journey!  The work that God had for us is finished. And as I write we are headed to cruising altitude on the plane. Writing might be a little sloppy as it's quite windy as we are taking off from San Diego. I wasn't able to recap the happenings of yesterday since we had a late night and a final meal while down in Mexico, so bear with me as I try to recall everything we did on our last full day in Mexico.  Project Little Child - Refugio de Amore (Refuge of Love) is a daily outreach that is run by Eric's (Director of BCM) wife Becca. It can't technically be labeled as a school since she doesn't have her teaching license, so for all intents and purposes it's a daycare but it functions more like a school. Kids attend there every weekday where local teachers help students with their homework help teach them english and mainly just help keep the kids off the street.  This community outreach was bir...

Today was a day where being flexible was key. BCM put together another outreach for us in a community they've never been to, and with a Pastor they've never worked with before. The Pastor leads a Pentecostal church about 30 minutes from the house build site. The area is predominantly a squatter area, with the ramshackle homes we had become so familiar with in such a short time in Mexico. But I'm getting ahead of myself.  The day started with a wonderful breakfast at an ocean front restaurant that is one of Eric's (Director of BCM's) favorite spots. The restaurant was called Los Pelicanos, or as I'm sure you can gather from context The Pelicans. I had huevos con chorizo y pepas, eggs with chorizo and potatoes. The food was amazing, and the view was spectacular, the Pacific Ocean stretching as far as the eye could see. We stopped briefly on our way out, and there was a cowboy who was riding a beautiful buckskin colored horse down the beach doing maneuvers.  After ...

Thank you Lord for your provision today! I started the day not feeling optimistic at all about the day, I wasn't feeling well and the taste of yesterdays "Sabbath" was still in my mouth.  Delicious burrito's this morning supplied by Kevin and his wife Isabella. McDonald's cant even hold half a candle to these homemade burritos. Freshly made tortillas, fillings of sausage, bacon, or chorizo, with potatoes mixed in, cheese, and eggs, add in the freshly made conchas from a local bakery, we were fueled and ready to go!   After a filling and delicious breakfast we piled in the van to make a quick stop at the "bodega", the building where BCM stores all their tools and food supplies. We loaded up the necessary supplies and drove an hour to the Fiesta site. As we were leaving Rosarito the skies were sunny with a slight breeze. But the closer we got to the Fiesta site the skies began to turn grey and it started to rain. The van's atmosphere shifted from excit...

The sabbath day, our day of rest had finally arrived. We were just about halfway through our trip and the prospect of getting to throw the schedule out the window was something many of us were looking forward to. The thing about Sabbath days is they look different to different people and unfortunately for me it was by far the least restful day of the trip thus far. The travel day on Wednesday was more restful than this Sabbath day was.  The plan for the day was loosely based around 3 major things, sharing a good meal, traveling to a place with incredible views, and time at the open air markets again. We started our day at roughly the same time but after breakfast we were able to bum around until about 10:30AM when Eric (the director of BCM) was going to pick us up and drive us around.  Our destinations were Esanada and La Bufadora (The Blowhole). We would be traveling further south along the Mexican coast, which again was made challenging by the rains which had created even la...