“Send the Angels to Help Us!”

Uziel and his parents survived the earthquakes in Mexico, but lost their home.  It wasn’t even their house.  

Francisco, Uziel’s father, says, “That house was property of a relative and we were already told to move.”

Uziel was the one who gave the family hope. He says, “I told my mom to have faith in God, He would send angels to help us.”

Uziel is a fighter.  He battled cancer, and won, but his medical expenses used up everything the family had saved.  They owned a piece of land, and had planned to build a house on it, but couldn’t afford it.

Felicita, his mother, says, “Chemotherapy was expensive, and hard on my little boy.  But I saw his strength, his will to live, and finally he was healed.”

After the earthquake, they built a makeshift tent.  Walking home one night, Uziel said he was hungry.  They took their last few pesos, and bought two tacos.

“I told myself, tonight Felicita and I will not eat.  We can stand the hunger. We only have to buy some food for Uziel,” says Francisco.

That night, a team from Operation Blessing was eating at the same taco restaurant. They went to the old piece of land the family owned, to build them a new home.

Francisco says, “I saw on TV that Operation Blessing was helping people in the disaster areas, and I prayed for some help like this.  Now to see them here I feel like if God sent them to bless us.”

The new house wouldn’t just be bigger than their old one.  Thanks to modern technology, it would be stronger, more stable, and even better insulated. In no time at all, their new home was finished, and the family was settling in nicely.

Uziel says, “I always pray for the people from Operation Blessing, because they helped us so much. Thank you for our new home!”