Minga

Today was our minga day. We went with Gonzaga. We left at 6:30am for Center #1 to meet Edison. The journey required 2 buses and took about 1 hour to get there. Once there, we checked in with Edison, who asked our group to split up. 5 of the Gonzaga guys went one way and the test of us got on another city bus for another hour long ride. We got to the site and meet the owner of the house that we were going to help, Luis. He took us up to his house, up a very steep hill about 1 mile. Our job was to dig holes for a latrine system and pilings so that he can extend his house. The boys wee amazing - they really rallied to the task and dumped right in - literally. There was a hole that was about 12 feet deep that needed to be even deeper.the task required the boys to dump into the hole, shovel dirt and pull it out in a bucket. At the end of the day it started raining lightly. We left at about 1:30 to head back to the Center #2, we got back here at 4:15 and celebrated mass at 5pm.
The boys decided to go down to the mall with fr. Craig and Maria and I stayed home with Maggie and Lena and ordered pizza to be delivered.