DR 2008 - Wednesday

Hello again from the sunny DR! It was another good day here for the most part. We started the day at La Yaguita and Pastor Ramone's church building. They are applying to be a project church for Compassion International and need a new bathroom and security fence to become approved. We finished both projects and also the water tower project for Pastor Ramone's house. They now have a good supply of water. He told us that they had been bathing in buckets for 4 months! But tonight they'll take long and satisfying showers.

We were done by mid-afternoon and loaded up our stuff to head back to the other church building at Los Girasoles. Fred and I worked on electrical again. Ad, Joe, and Darrel poured three more outside stairs.

We had an interesting experience this week. We couldn't find the 24VDC electric drill set which had been used as recently as Saturday. There is a guard that the church hires to watch things and it turns out that he want back to drugs and stole the drill and an electric guitar from the church to pawn them. Apparently he sold the $300 drill for $21 bucks. With the help of the guy's father, Richie was able to locate the items in the pawn shop and get them back.

Fred was feeling pretty sick today. He came home and went to bed at 5pm after taking some Cipro antibiotic. After a 13 hour sleep, he is feeling much better.

It's the Carri bean World Series in Santiago this year. Rich, the Crew, and a few guys from the church went to a game last night. I'm feeling a little sports overload but we had a good time. They take their baseball very seriously in the DR. When you watch the video below, you'll see a bit of our drive from the ball field to the Vallettes. In the DR, it's OK to go into opposing traffic when you're in a hurry or things are congested. It's also OK to run red lights after 10:30 PM!

Please pray for continued health for the group. The weather has been good to us and tomorrow we should finish all the jobs we had planned. We can then get some extras completed.