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We finally finished all the Christmas gifts and candy bags! YEA! We spent all day Friday with Donna, and two of the women that help her, Amelia and Mary, taking food to families in the morning and finishing all the Christmas gifts in the afternoon. We can't wait to start giving them to people.

These little boys loved the suckers

Amelia, Mary, and Donna

We are spending the majority of this week with Donna so we said our goodbyes on Thursday to the Casa San Juan Diego Center and the Humane Society. It was sad to say goodbye, not only because it meant our time in Cabo was coming to an end, but we will miss the people we have come to know and serve every morning.

A few of our friends

We ate at Bully's Tacos so I had to give the lil ham some love

Tallee even wanted some love from Bully

Earlier in the week we met Donna to get food for another outreach in the barrios. As she walked into Sam's we could tell she was a little frantic. She had just come from church, where she has Bible study every Tuesday morning, and as she was leaving there was a women waiting for her with a baby and another small child. Donna quickly realized she used to take food to this women. The women(can't remember her name) began telling her that her 10 year old son Luis had runaway, and needed Donna's help. This women has four children of her own, plus her sisters(who passed away) three children...7 children all under the age of 10. They live in one of the barrios and Luis had become the babysitter for all these children since he was the oldest while his mom went to work. Too much responsibility for a 10-year-old boy, and who was not getting an education because of it! The mother works at a grocery store and Luis for the last couple of days had been living behind it to be close to his mom when she went to work, but when she found him he wouldn't come with her and ran off again. So that is when she went and found Donna for help. Donna loaded them up in her car and came to meet us, we left the store and went to find the little boy. We found him in one of the barrios behind the grocery store where his mom worked locked in a room. Donna got him out and we stopped by one of Donna's kitchens in the barrios to talk to some men about putting him in the orphanage in La Paz. We then left to take his mom and siblings home, but he wouldn't get back in the car with Donna afraid that he would be left at his house. We left him at the kitchen with the men who help with the outreach in that area and took his mom home. Jen and I got out of the car to help carry some food in we had for them. The two children that were there ran out of the house so delighted to see us. The oldest child at the house was probably 6...6 years old at the house by himself with his 3 year old sister(the other two children we didn't see, thankfully they have been put in school during the day). We walked into their little hut of a house and saw a hammock(being used for a bed), two other small cots, and a couple of tables. Very cramped for 9 people...Luis' "stepfather", and the father of the most recent baby, is also living there. When we left the house we parted ways with Donna. She was going back to pick the little boy up to stay with her for the night. She was going to feed him and get him some new shoes...he didn't have any on when we found him. The next morning she was meeting the Pastor from La Paz who runs the orphanage there(we talked about him in the last blog) to talk to him about taking the boy. 


Luis is now living in La Paz at the orphanage. After talking more with Luis on Tuesday night and with the Pastor on Wednesday morning they found out that he was being beaten by the stepfather, who does not have a job, and is a drunk. When we found this out we immediately started thinking about the other 6 children in the home. I know this happens all over the world, but knowing how the legal system here works, and hearing this 10 year old little boy's story, and seeing the conditions these people live in everyday, it just seems a million times worse. We got to see Luis on Saturday with some of the other children from the orphanage, and he looked really happy! Happy to live like a child again, and happy to have a place to shine! 


We were worn out Friday evening so we read, played some gin, and went to bed. Last night, it being our last Saturday in Cabo, we hit the town and lived it up. Today we had a relaxing beach day and talked about all the things we were going to do our last week in Cabo.

XOXO...Jen and Tal