Overall Great Day

Today was a pretty laid back day. We got up and went to the supermarket and learned a lot about the culture just by what foods were there. Tons of rice. Tons of beans. Then we went to the beach and had a quick turnover to then head to church for a chapel's 18th anniversary celebration service. 

The beach was gorgeous, as one would expect. We packed 11 of us into our friend Willy's 7 passenger Toyota Sienna. It was quite a warm and loud drive, but well worth it once we got to swim finally. Willy played us some music in the car and turned it up impressively loud, not realizing the girls were getting blasted from the deafening rear speakers. They powered through and enjoyed it nonetheless. 

After the beach we came back and quickly ate dinner then hopped on a bus with a bunch of other churchgoers and headed to the chapel. The chapel probably held about 100 people and it was packed. Many people spoke, many songs were sung and two girls performed awesome dances. We played "Open the Eyes of My Heart" and "Blessed be Your Name" for them and also were welcomed up and introduced ourselves and were talked about by the head of the whole IED. I'm sure he said many great things about us but all I know for sure was that he made fun of Stu's name because it sounds like "You" in Spanish and he recognized Jimmy for his 3 years of service at Papa Johns. 

Overall great day. Tomorrow we're heading to the church again for Sunday School then a service at night. During the afternoon we're headed to the basketball courts to ball in the hot sun with some locals. 

-Evan English 


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