Back in the USA

We have made it safely back to the United States. Currently we are riding back to New Wilmington with Ralph Hawkins and Dave Dawson. There are a few quick observations we have made in our short time back in the USA:

- It isn't hot here. Not even close
- we can flush our toilet paper
- people don't seem to be as kind...
- the roads are smoother
- it's quieter here (and not in a good way)
- most of us have caught ourselves trying to speak Spanish to people...

We are happy to be back, but also extremely sad to have left the Republica Dominicana. We had a wonderful time and made many memories that will not be soon forgotten.

Rob

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Happy Travel Day

Friday, June 9th Happy travel day!!! Santo Domingo has offered us a first impression of the Dominican Republic as a bustling and busy capital city. Today, our understanding of the DR drastically expanded as we left the crowded streets, apartment buildings, and surrounding restaurants/establishments. For the first time we experienced the countryside (or "campo" as the locals call it) as we journeyed from Santo Domingo to Sabaneta de Yadira. Among the rolling green hills were small villages, home, and family businesses alike. The winding roads took us up a mountain offering breathtaking views of the country below.  After hours of driving through the country we were welcomed in Sabaneta with lunch as well as an evidently strong community. This town is quite clearly different from our last temporary home in the city. We have our own yard with multiple mango trees! You can hear crickets at night instead car horns and traffic.  After a late lunch our local friends agreed to meet us
Read more

Samaná summary

     Hey internets! It's been awhhhiiiiilleee. Hope everyone is living it up wherever in the world you are reading this. We here in the D.R are having such a fun time that we forgot to blog for a week! Sorry about that! Anyways, here we are back again! Btw I'm blogging at like midnight so this will be an attempt at a quick catch up while I'm sleep deprived!     We have spent the last four days in the beautiful seaside town of Samaná! The town is literally in a bay in between a long peninsula and the rest of the island (pro tip: google it and be amazed by how cool it is). The girls are staying in the pastors house, while us niños are staying on the same floor in the conjoined missionary house. We spent the first day and a half of being here getting to know the town and the people, while also enjoying a nice beach recovery day. The last two days have been spent helping run a bible school for the kids. Oh, and by help run, I mean organize the chaos in whatever way we can. P
Read more

connecting flight conversation

I had the privledge of talking to a nice guy named Jai on our flight from Buffalo to New York. We started talking about where our final destinations were, and the conversation led to a talk about sports, dreams, life, love, miracles, the evils in the world, and how God fits into all of it. He ended up hearing the true Gospel of Jesus Christ for the first time on that flight! He had heard of Jesus' story before, but had never heard of the resurrection and the divinity of Jesus. I told him I would pray that he would begin to understand how wide and long and high and deep the love of Jesus Christ is for him.  -to the end that all may know 
Read more