We Got Our Land!!!

Once upon a time there were two boys, three girls and their very close friends! They had a dream! A dream that seemed just out of their reach. Then something happened the enemy did not intend: A Lord of great power decided that the time was indeed right for the dream to be fulfilled. So, when these children were at the right spot, at the right time, with the right motives of heart, He granted them their wish and made it come true! "But", said He, "For your wish to be entirely fulfilled you must do your part to ensure that you work hard at your dream, doing what you can do so that the work be completed. What you cannot do, I will do, but, what you can do for yourselves, this you must accomplish to the best of your ability."
And so it was that on the 10th of April, 2008, in Veracruz, Mexico; these folks decided to purchase a plot of land to call their own where they might build, in honor of the Lord and His great commission to them, a home and center.
For those of you that know the story, will know that it was a slight bit more complicated then that, but hey, we wont bore you with details. The Lord did it and we have already started building! Yes, we find it hard to believe ourselves that we have actually started this venture!

Here is a picture of part of our land at its very early stages. Rough, wild, and untamed, but full of possibility!
In order for us to start the building project we would need to start filling in the land as it was a bit lower then the areas around and since it's close to a river we wanted to make sure that we would not, in some future catastrophe, get washed away. So in the next picture you can see how we began to do just that.


Here you can see how we had to fill it in about a meter. One of the reasons we settled on this piece of land were two very beautiful, very old, and very large fig trees. I had never seen this particular kind of fig tree but we fell in love with them and had to have them. Ha! You can see the dump trucks a distance away. The tree is not that big in comparison, but if the trucks were right underneath they would just fit between the floor and the first branches.
And, so it starts, Our Building Project!