65 people (most under the age of 18) in a hotel is a lot! After all of the travel craziness we finally have everyone here and settled. It may be a large group of people but they are going to be a lot fun. Team Wyoming went to the Kairos project today where they were building bunk beds, pouring concrete, and working a medical clinic. I was with team Rhode Island which I learned is technically called Rhode Island and the Plantations of Providence. You learn something new everyday. We were up in El Hato working on the house that North Carolina built last week. The team was pouring concrete floors so that the family can have a nice clean house and not have to worry about diseases and other things that come from a dirt floor.
But in order to begin pouring concrete, we have to bring the concrete to the house. The family lives on the side of a mountain surrounded by a lush forest. The road can only take us so far until we have to continue to the house on foot which was about a 15 to 20 minute hike. Not too bad right? Then we also have to carry 20 bags of concrete to the house. A couple of the guys took about 2 ½ hours and carried twenty 110 pound bags to the house. Impressive? It gets better. The guys had about six more bags of concrete left when it began to pour the rain. And I mean pour. We were almost mudded in, if that makes sense. Take the term “snowed in” and replace it with mud. The guys toughed it out though and some how slipped and slid their way back to the house with the remaining bags. We finished one room in the house and I think everyone would agree that it was worth the work.
All the teams came back to the hotel early because it was raining like crazy. The Wyoming kids were loving the "warm weather" and were swimming in the pool. The family from Florida that is here on a family mission trip thought Team Wyoming was nuts. The poor Floridians have been freezing this week. Team Rhode Island seems pretty chill about everything. They adopted me as a fellow Islander.
Tomorrow we are going to be going out into El Hato and promoting our bible school for the next couple of days. Be praying that kids will come out and join us and also that the rain will wait until after we're done working.
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Emily! I just read your entire blog. It's super cool to be able to kind-of experience the whole trip right along with you! When are you coming back to the states? I love you and miss you! Be safe and have fun!
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