Days 1&2

 

Friday began very early with a 2:00 AM departure from Sioux Center. We arrived at the airport with plenty of time to spare which was fortunate since there was an additional online form that everyone had to fill out. We caught our first flight with minutes to spare. After we arrived safely in Atlanta, we. discovered that we only had 20 minutes to rush across the airport.  We were the last people to board our flight to Santo Domingo, but we made it and is what is important. Don't ask where the airport photo of our team is, we were too winded to remember. 

We drove 2 hours to the town of Boca De Yuma, had supper, did group devotions, and went to bed.

Saturday morning brought us to the church work site. The congregation did the block work in the weeks before we arrived so we jumped in with them and began tying rebar, building forms for columns and corners, mixing cement, and pouring cement into the forms. We experienced more rain during all of this than anyone local can remember for this time of year.

Jordyn, Duane's granddaughter, quickly made friends with some local girls. They did quite a bit of coloring and learning about each other.  Jordyn was happy with. how well she could communicate in Spanish. The girls. were kind enough to invite Jordyn into their home when the rain began to pour.