Everybody up 6 travel journal entry3/24/2024 ![]() ![]() The Whites are in the process of constructing a discipleship training center/missionary retreat on about 14 acres of land. We did manual labor from roughly 10:30am to 6:45pm yesterday. That’s how I would describe myself today. The day will be a tough one, but we can all look forward to some pretty sweet farmer’s tans.Įxhausted. Tomorrow we go to the discipleship training center to help with construction. It’s around 8pm and I think I could crash right now. I love playing with kids, but they completely wore me out this time around. Ben, one of the members of our team, let her play his ukulele and the joy in her face was priceless. It was really great to the smiles on the faces of those kids. Thanks to the energy of college students, we did a pretty good job of wearing them out by playing volleyball, basketball, and hide and seek. Once we finished up with that, we visited an orphanage run by some people the Whites know here on the island. We were all pretty exhausted post-meal so we came back to the house and got about an hour of down time. ![]() They are pretty heavy on the rice, but they mixed in plenty of seafood and meats to please just about any taste. After that, we went to a local restaurant for lunch. It was a small group of attendees (~ 40 people including us), but the worship was done in three different languages (English, Spanish, and Creole) and the sermon was spoken in English and translated into Creole. This morning, we attended the White’s church, International Christian Church. We’ve pretty much finished our first full day here. Now we’re off to a good start in the D.R. Luckily, my Matrix skills kicked in and I avoided it, but the men decided we needed to hunt it down and kill it since it had run inside the house – if nothing else, for the sanity of the girls.Īround 45 minutes later, the spider met its demise. The thing was literally bigger than my hand. As we were touring the balcony patio, a wolf spider came running out from a corner straight in my direction. Our arrival at the White’s home was met with excitement from more than our hosts alone. Santiago isn’t in great shape, but it looks like luxury in comparison to Port-au-Prince. seems than Haiti when they are on opposite sides of the same island. We were driven to the White’s home after dark last night so I couldn’t see much, but it is remarkable how much more stable the D.R. This doesn’t even seem like the same island. Already I can see the difference fiscally between the two economies.Ģ) There are properly constructed roads and the Dominican drivers somewhat adhere to the traffic laws. ![]() So, the guys especially, are rummaging through everything we carried on in an attempt to dress one another adequately for church.ġ) The airport is so much nicer than the one in Haiti. Unfortunately, all of our checked baggage was left in Miami and won’t be here until later today. We landed around 8:30pm local time last night. What are the odds? Thank you Jesus…because we all really had to pee. We got off of our flight at gate D-16 and went to check the board for our next flight’s terminal only to find that it was D-17, 20 feet away from the gate we just arrived in. I was preparing mentally for an all out sprint to make it in time because my luck usually means that the gate is on the exact opposite side of the airport. When we landed, we had about 45 minutes to get to the terminal for our next flight. The airport there is one of the biggest most heavily trafficked airports in the entire world. One of the most impactful moments for me came the first day when we landed in Atlanta. God has taken great care of us through the change of plans. We flew out of Dallas at 10am, caught connecting flights in Atlanta and Miami and now we’re only a few minutes away from our destination. One of the parents of a girl on the trip booked us two rooms at a nearby Holiday Inn Express. The team (me and 7 others) were supposed to arrive last night, but due a terrible thunderstorm in Dallas, we got stranded at DFW after our flight to Miami was cancelled. It has already been a memorable experience. I’m currently on a plane flying to the Dominican Republic where I will be for the next 6 days. ![]()
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