Blankets for Villages

Today we began the delivery of blankets to several small villages in the area outside of San Miguel de Allende. The villages were chosen by a local social service organization that the church works with. Our guide from the organization had made appointments in each of three villages. The people gathered, we all introduced ourselves, she gave the instructions that each family unit gets one blanket. We distributed blankets, cooed over new babies, smiled and greeted. Our guide made sure that villagers who could not come out would get blankets, verifying a careful count, and designating someone to take blankets to them. The villages were each isolated, but close to each other. Homes were very modest, some in states of partial building or repair. The villagers very friendly and grateful. We saw a very small school in each village. Each village also had a small church that the priest came to once a month. Between the three villages, we distributed about 110 blankets. We will go out two more days to different villages.