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For the most part, I will post some pictures from last year's missions trip prior to my departure to Mexico on March 10th!
Here are a few images from my trip to the Dominican Republic last Spring.
I really clicked with this little girl in the village of Ramon Santana in the mountains of the Dominican. Her name was Ingri, and she was a hoot as you can tell.
My mentor and trip advisor for the DR trip as well as this year's Mexico trip, Janelle.
This is what we did the first couple days of the trip, chip paint off of a cement porch. If you have ever done that, don't try it.
My trip leader Andrew and myself led worship along with the team at a Spanish speaking Christianization church in San Pedro.
We had some interesting meals in the Dominican, but this was by far the most...unique. It was like warm tapiocca pudding, which I'm sure my dad would have enjoyed (he LOVES tapiocca pudding...), but the team however, did not. I can sometimes be a picky eater, so my motto I adopted for the week was "Lord if I eat whatever is put before me, you HAVE to keep it down". Needless to say, we visited a buffet that I had been to the year before, and one of their main dishes is Stuffed Cow Intestine. I made the mistake of sampling that the year before, and I did NOT try it again. However, I did convince a few of my team members to try it.
The children were always climbing over EVERYONE like this.
This is us trying to start a game of "It-o" (Tag) in Spanish. As you can see...we are translating in our minds.
This is the picture of me and the girl who I wrote about in my support letter. Her name is Maria, and she wants to become a doctor and eventually move to the US. I would LOVE the opportunity to be any kind of service to her in the future.
When we visited a school in the moutains (where they told us we'd be in charge of 50 kids...and we ended up being in charge of 500 kids), Andrew (my co-leader) and Aaron did a clowns ministry which was a hit! They would run from room to room and the children would chase them all throughout the school. It was HILARIOUS!
Our last full day in the Dominican a few of us woke up and walked on the beach as the sun rose. This was an old cement pier that was built off of rock that was already there, and we just sat, talked, and watched the sun come up. Sometimes when I'm frustrated, I'll think of that morning and feel so at peace.
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