Renovations

Today we headed into the streets of Los Alcarrizos to begin work on a house for a man named Pedro. It’s falling apart and he was unable to live in it anymore and was forced to live about 3 hours away from his house. We worked on floors, painting inside walls and making cement. It was fun to walk back to camp for lunch, as we were handing out candy to the kids and watching them get such great joy from something so small.
Apparently we have brought Michigan’s rain with us here, because the Dominicans have told us that it has been very dry here and we have brought them rain from up north.
We spent last night doing devotions and talking about our individual experiences. Everyone is really getting a lot out of the experiences here. It’s really cool to see everyday from so many points of view. The “newbies”, Chris, Sherry and Kendra are doing amazing and are absolutely loving it here.
We are having an amazing time. Many of us are praying that we don’t see any spiders…
(To the right is a picture of the house we began renovating today before we started. Hopefully we can get an after picture up here soon!)