Utah Team Makes Ninth Trek to Mexico

PLEASANT GROVE, Utah – “I can’t go to church,” 11-year-old Ekir told Steve Sidwell of First Baptist Church here. “I’m disobedient.”

Actually, the words probably were “Muy malo.” Ekir was speaking in Spanish through a translator to Sidwell, whose team from several Utah churches had just that day finished building a house for Ekir’s family.

The six-person team was in San Luis, Mexico, 27 miles south of Yuma, Arizona. It was the Utahns’ ninth annual construction missions trip to Mexico. Continue reading here…