March 12-15- DR 2017

March 12th, 2017

  • Church!
    • Morning service was in Spanish, evening service was in Creole
    • Both services were three hours each
    • A lot of time for singing, worship, prayer
    • Antonio preached at the first service, Luan preached at the second service
    • We led a few worship songs (two in Spanish, one in Creole)
  • Drove to the city of San Pedro (afternoon)
    • used to be a port city
    • walked along the beach

March 13th, 2017

  • Work
    • starting to build up walls: mixing concrete, moving cinder blocks
    • interacting with the kids in the village and the workers
    • I liked mixing concrete
    • “mescla, mescla, mescla”
  • After work
    • watched some guys from the work site play basketball
    • practicing my Spanish, talking with the guys
    • got some ice cream in San Pedro

March 14th, 2017

  • Work in the morning
    • Still building walls up
    • building friendships with the men we work with
  • Beach in the afternoon!
    • the ocean was soooo blue, looked like something right off a postcard
    • very relaxing and good bonding time with the team

March 15th, 2017

  • Morning
    • shadowed the English teacher at the school
  • Last afternoon at the work site
    • finishing up with the walls
    • took pictures, prayed for the house
  • Evening
    • met the family who will be living in the house
    • hung out with the teens from the youth group and guys from the work site
    • knockout, laughing, music, sad goodbyes, so much love

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