Day One of building completed!

We are having a great time in Mexico and have just finished the first day of building! We are building a house for a family of 9. The mothers name is Anna Maria and her youngest child is 2 months old - very cute! The team is doing a fantastic job of building - the house was framed, closed in with roof on by 5pm tonight. We are also building a classroom at a local church that runs a women's refuge. We will finish building tomorrow (Tuesday) and the school will be open on Wednesday! We received some generous donations for education materials so have purchased 600 school books, a couple of white boards and other classroom equipment so the school will be very well equipped - so thank you so much! Thanks also for your prayers - we are having an awesome time - the team is fantastic and we are having a lot of fun. The team tell me that their highlights have been the Mexican food (it has been really yummy!) and we are having a competition to see which team can build either the house or the school room the quickest - so far the school team is in the lead! We will be visiting 2 orphanages this week - one on Wednesday and one on Thursday, as well as the womens refuge. All of these places have lots of needs and we are privaledged to be able to help them out. The refuge make yummy doughnuts which they sell in the markets each day - this afternoon they cooked up a heap of doughnuts - and they are good! We will post some pictures on the website soon, but having a few difficulties getting internet time!!