Mexico

Mexico
Summer 2002, my church took a mission trip to Mexico. We stayed in Harlingen, Texas at a hospitality house. The females, we stayed and taught vacation bible school, while our guys went into Mexico and built bunk beds the first two days, and they worked the last three days at a church down there.
On Monday night after our guys returned from working they hardly said a word to us. Most of them ate and then went to bed. Seeing the way these guys acted really hit everyone hard and the women we were anxious to see what were to be the conditions of living.
Thursday afternoon we first got the opportunity to go to a shopping area down there known as Progresso, Mexico. Seeing how these people acted was truly amazing. First seeing women sitting on the sidewalks with a cup in her hand and feeding her little children that sit next to her, so calmly, but you can sense sadness in there hearts, really puts emotions on your heart.
You cannot buy stuff off of the littl...