Monday - Day 3

Wow, what a day! After an incredible nights sleep from our crazy journey we treked out to the tiny village of LaHoya not far from the Mission facility. We slept on the third floor to gain the ocean breeze, and I´m certain it was really ´´lights out´´ quite naturally by 10pm. We split the groups, with Liz and I, the Simmons & Prescott families, along with Andrew, Nathan & Alec to build a church from cinder block. The footers were completed by another mission team some time ago, and we made excellent progress with getting up several walls, and manually spreading rocks as filler for the floor. We made the cement to join the blocks by hand and generally worked as manual laborers. At lunch, we went to the local school for the village children which is 100% Mission sponsored, The Director is an American from Tampa, and Connie has been here for seven consecutive years now and we were really impressed with the work she has done. We were joined by groups from Mississippi and Georgia, and it was a joy to work with so many others for this important project.

We´ve seen everything here, wealth and poverty. Families living in shacks, but everyone had a smile on their face, and the children are very playful and sincere. It was a very long day, but extremly rewarding, and we finished off the late afternoon with a nice dip in the Caribbean. It was a big community dinner, which we all enjoyed and the food was excellent. Pastor Pedro is a marvelous person, and we are supporting a wonderful cause. It is back to the mission house for another nice sleep in the open air. As tired as we are - we don't even hear the constant honking of horns any more.

We will lift you all up in prayer every night.

Much Love, Frank and Liz