Second Visit - 15 Jan 2005

Julie, Susie, Victoria, Steve and myself traveled to the community with our list of people, in order to meet the people and assess what other needs were there. We were greeted by Vicente and his family. After some conversation in Vicente's home, we began travelling around the community to see what needs exist. For pictures of that day, browse to: http://www.theschottfamily.org/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=25

The generosity of the people was overwhelming. We were given a huge bag of peas ( en español "guandules" sounds like "juan" "doo" "lace") and "teyotes" (a vegetable that looks like a pear.) There are so many needs, we would walk down a stretch of road and there was no end, always more needs ahead, we would have to turn around and go back to look in other directions to get a clear picture of the original list. All in all we took a couple hundred pictures, and others (Victoria, Steve, Susie, and Julie) began to catch the vision as well. Comments were made like "I know of this guy who works in construction in Canada" or "There are a couple groups coming down in the summer that would be interested in working here." that reinforced we were doing the right thing.

We agreed to meet again in two weeks. Each of us will type or write a reaction of our experience and share it with others.

Julie and I invited Vicente to have supper at our house on the following Sunday, and I am anxiously awaiting it!