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                2009 Young Adult Mission Trip to Pharr, Texas                


"Pharr, Texas"


Day 2 - July 12

 

 

 

 

Sitting in Phar church Early risers attended the 9:30 am church service at San Juan UMC while the rest of our crew took our time getting ready before heading down the street to Pharr UMC for their 11am service.  We were introduced and warmly welcomed by the bilingual congregation.  For lunch we ate Mexican food at Racho Grande Restaurant and afterwards met Armando Garcia who is in charge of our project.  We followed him about 25 miles northeast of San Juan to a small town called La Villa to see our work site.

The house is small and in need of many repairs besides the roof.  We met with some of the multi-generational family that lives there and learned what our tasks were going to be.  After unloading our tools we headed to Walmart again to gather more supplies, food, and other items and stopped along the way to get snow cones!
Front of project house

Enjoying snow cones!



Back at the dorms, Barbie and Jennifer prepared a spaghetti dinner and after that we had Wesley time, and relaxed by playing games, playing guitar and folding origami.  Towards the end of the evening, we stood outside to watch a cicada molting (You can read more about these insects and watch a time sequence video here to see exactly what we saw:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada

Mission team with church members


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