• Marion and Rick are standing on the bridge above the Rio Bravo (Rio Grande) which forms the Mexican-U.S. border. We drove to Mexico each morning.

  

• Each morning we would leave Texas in a school bus to get to Reynosa. We had to cross the Rio Bravo to get there. This is the famous (and somewhat underwhelming) Rio Bravo, or Rio Grande, as it was renamed by the U.S. after we stole more than half of México's territory during the Mexican-American War.

  

• This was our first look at Reynosa, México, in the state of Tamaulipas, where we would be spending the next week in temperatures over 100° Farenheit.

  

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• On Monday, 4 August 1998, Rick W., Marion C., and Pastor Gordon went to Work Site Three to begin to construct a house for the Sunday School Superintendent of the Divine Light Baptist Mission. Her house was going to be built in the front yard of her parents' lot. Her mother was the head of the hospitality or kitchen committee of the mission. These are her two younger siblings, José Manuel (who was called "Manolito" by his father--he hated this nickname!) and Daisy. The new owner worked at the Whirlpool factory in Reynosa and could not be present for the building of her house, but her entire family is active at the mission. Day one began with Rick and Marion helping to lay thirteen cinder blocks completely level in order to create a foundation for the house.

  

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• This was Pastor Gordon's "Gang," made up of the fourth, fifth, and sixth grade boys who attended Bible School.

  

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