Several weeks ago, I had the opportunity to take our son Nico to a place called Matochos (a rural village 2 hours east of Guatemala City) and work along side a work team from the US. It was a father/son kind of work team as there were several fathers and sons on the team as well as several of the other AMG missionaries brought their sons. We spent 2 days working in Matochos replacing the roof, mixing and pouring concrete, setting up a playground, and doing general clean up. It was an enjoyable and special time for us missionaries to be able to spend this time working along side of our sons. It was a good opportunity to teach some of these boy some basic skills and techniques that will make work easier. The boys worked quite hard and did a good job. For myself it was an opportunity to put to use some of my construction skills and it felt good to work hard with my hands. There is some thing fulfilling about working with ones hands, rather than sitting behind a computer. I hope that we will have more opportunities in the future to do the same thing. 
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