Location: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
After church we went to an Italian restaurant for lunch. The girls piled into Patricia's car again, but this time she wasn't there and Mr. R drove us. All the guys hopped in with Jorge Santana in his new car. By the way, everyone who remembers last year, Jorge is totally all better, he's been fine for a long time now. All good. No worries anymore.
On the way to lunch we passed a Claro van with a few guys working on the power lines...with the ladder set up against the power lines. Yes...like ON the power lines themselves. Shockingly, no one died.
At lunch we had pizza. How American of us. Pizza. Yesh...and way too much grease.
Since today is Mr. R's 58th birthday and Mr. R was so sad that Jenn and Mrs. R would not be joining us since Jenn's been sick. But I got an email in the contrary...so for a birthday surprise we told Mr. R that his girls had plane tickets and would be joining us on TUESDAY!!! This sent the group into a buzz of joy. Then we sang happy birthday to the birthday boys, because it's Andrew's birthday too.
When we went home everyone took a nap, I particularly slept super hard. I woke up to a phone ringing and ringing and ringing, it was annoyingly loud and repetitive. So I went over and answered it...
"hola"
- hola
"hello"
- hello...
"who is this?"
- Emanuel
"oh, hi Emanuel"
- Can I talk to Pastor Josue?
"On the phone?" <-- that's how not awake I was...
- yes
"let me go find out..."
- okay
*goes to look for Mr. R*
"Emanuel, he's sleeping"
- okay, I'll call back in 10 minutes
It was so funny...now that I'm awake.
Skip forward a few minutes and it was time to go to church. But Mr. R wasn't ready to go. So we left on our own. This time we timed how long the walk to church is. It was 8.5 minutes. It was fun.
At church I had the chance to do a Skype call with Bianca. It's really neat to share missions with other missionaries.
Tonight was also the Church's Lord Supper, it was wonderful to share in this with the body of Christ in the DR!
Now we are hanging out with the Santanas for games and flan....yum.
love,
Jessie Bear
Hebrews 2:16
"For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham."
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