Esperanza 2015, Day 3: Wednesday

For our daily reflections we are covering a different fruit of the Holy Spirit. Today's fruit happened to be patience, which is what we needed on the work site today. For the past two days we had finished the houses we were working on, so it was an eye opening experience to see how the house is started. There was lots of digging, pick axing, shoveling, and moving dirt and sand. The work was tedious, slowly moving away the dirt one inch at time. As we dug, the process seemed to take forever, like we weren't making any progress. However, at the end of the day when we stepped back the trench had deepened to over three feet deep. 

Today was also the day that our group went to go see the border. For those who had never been to the border before it was a shock to see how different the Mexican and American sides were. On the Mexican side it was lively and full of excitement. Beautiful murals were painted on the fence that keeps the two nations separate, people could walk right up to the fence and play on the beach. The American side is a different story. Helicopters constantly circe the two fences and the nearest town is miles away. One of the more surprising things that we learned at the border was that many Mexican immigrants that have served in the United States Armed Forces have been deported after their service.

Even though we have worked hard today, we are still patiently waiting for tomorrow!

Bailey S. and Tanishq

(We are a tired bunch, so pictures will be coming tomorrow.)