My Dad's Mexico pictures A

Here are some of my dad's photos of Mexico. This church is in Petlapixca (peck-la-peesh-ka) about an hour from Tamazunchale up in the mountains. This is how the church looked when my dad and Jack (another Sr. citizen from our church) arrived. They worked on pews while a group of students from LeTourneau worked on getting the roof ready to pour concrete. Our team was at a different site at the beginning of the week. Notice the slop of the ground under the building.

Here is a view from the side. All of those logs in the foreground become supports to hold the wood to hold the concrete until it dries.
One of my dad's jobs was to make sure Candido knew how to make the pews from beginning to end. Here he is busy sanding the piecesof wood. this open area is where the church presently meets for their services.

The "crew" busy at work on the assembly line. To the right of Candido is his oldest son, Isaiah. He has an amazing story. When he was a baby about 9 mos old he died and was dead for 4-5 hours and then God brought him back to life again! Wow!

Here are some of the women busily preparing lunch in the kitchen. Of course most look away when the camera comes out!! My dad kept motioning for them to smile for the picture and when they finally did most of them didn't have many teeth!! No wonder they weren't smiling!