April 1, 2013
So for
the third day of our trip we travelled some more and some more until we arrived
in El Paso, Teaxs. Along the way we stopped at some caverns in New Mexico,
called Carlsbad Caverns. They were so cool!!! We just kept going down and down
and down into more “rooms” that were huge, until we reached the bottom, where
there was the biggest room. It was 750 feet below ground at the lowest part. It
took a couple of hours to walk the whole thing, and then they had an elevator
to go back up, otherwise it might have taken another ½ hour to 1 hour! J The whole thing was
good, since we got a break from being cooped up in the bus all day! After that
we were on our way, where we met up with the last few people to join us on the
trip, in El Paso.
Here are some pictures from the caverens.
The
next morning we waited for a pastor to come and meet us, and we went to a
church where we parked the bus and loaded all our stuff into 15 passenger vans.
We had three of them, a suburban, and then a few trucks, one which was pulling
a trailer with all our luggage in it. There were a few Mexican missionaries who
were travelling with us. We drove through El Paso to the border crossing. The
city of Warras is just on the other side of the border in Mexico, so it is
almost like twin cities, only in two different countries. The border crossing
was interesting. All they wanted to see were the passports of the foreign
people, an exchange student from Finland that was coming with her American
family, and me the Canadian. The rest just had to like hold up their passports
to show that they had one, and that was fine. On the other side of the city, we
had to get our visas before entering the rest of the country. There the Mexican
missionaries helped us by translating and the such, and we showed them the
passports and bought the visas. By the time that was done it was lunch time,
and we had left in the morning, so it took awhile to go just a little ways.
However, after that we made good progress, even though it was slower than we
thought it would be. You see, the Mexican people are not in a hurry, and think
that they have to stop in every single town they drive through. So we had
plenty of gas and restroom stops along the way, arriving in Rio Chico after
supper time. We unloaded all our stuff into the mission while the Mexicans at
the mission cooked us supper.
Only half of us fit in the dining room, so the other half
went up to the balcony to eat there. It actually was nice eating up there,
except for being cold. It got dark fast after the sun went down, and the cold
came with it. Well compared to where most of you all are, it wasn’t cold, but
for us getting used to short-sleeve weather, it got cold enough to find a
sweater or two.
In Mexico. :)
The
next day after breakfast and a group devotional, we split into groups to do
different work projects. I was sent to work on some fruit trees with a few
others. We went to one of Mexican guys’ home, and there built up the dirt
around the fruit trees, so that they could get the water better. We also picked
up old water hose. It took all morning to do about half of the trees, and then
in the afternoon we had a couple more girls join us, and finished up the rest.
There were about five of us out there at first, and then three more joined us
later, since they had finished their job. The other jobs that were being worked
on were fixing up a green house, building a roof on a church, picking rocks for
a rock fence, and doing some painting. The painting job was finished first,
along with the trees at the end of the day. The rest of the projects were
continued the next day. That second day of being in Rio Chico I was helping out
with the green house in the morning, and then picking rocks in the afternoon.
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