If I could, I would give an endless list of moments but one of those would be when we went to church. From before you could even see the church, you could hear the pastor worshiping and praying. When I say that it was so loud, I really mean it.

We want to start off by thanking all of you for reading our blogs and the continuous support and prayers that you have been sending our way. We can really feel that God is working throughout this team and the work we are doing here in the Dominican Republic.

Today we stared off like normal. This included our morning devos on the roof with our reflection time. We also had a debate of who would win in a fight: a chicken or a tarantula.

First and foremost, an update on Pedro (the tarantula), he survived being in the pool for over 30 minutes. We went back to check on him and he was still kickin, so we scooped him out of the pool and put him back safely. We’ll let you decide if that is good news or bad news!

After devotions, one of our leaders was spooked by the biggest tarantula any of us have ever seen in our lives just a few feet where we ended off our devotional.

Mitch (on the paint team) found a massive spider crawling on the wall…

Today we started by waking up, going back to sleep, then waking up again. After 10 minutes of fighting the urge to go back to sleep one more time, I finally decided to get up only to find my back was bonded to the sheets (like a mouse in one of those sticky traps).

Today we started our Day off with our morning devos on the roof, followed by an absolutely outstanding, out of this world, bomb of a breakfast. After breakfast we dressed to the nine’s and walked three and a half hours in dog years (aka 15mins) to the sound of worship coming from the church since it was a thousand decibels.

Constructing Relationships

We did our first devotion today on the roof, reading Psalm 105:1-11 and filling out our daily devotional. Afterwards was breakfast which consisted of oatmeal, boiled eggs, meat and cheese, toast, and fruit. It was quite the smorgasbord!

Dear family and friends, today was a busy day. Our day started at 4:30 AM if you can believe it.

The Dominican Republic Missions Experience Team is looking to put together some donations to bring next week! In this blog you will see the list of items we are trying to gather before we leave next Friday.