Professional Painters

Today was out first day at out work site. We worked at a man named Juan's house. He is an older man and his grandson comes to spend time with him often. He had asked for a railing to be built on his second story balcony so his grandson could safely play there. He also needed the rest of his downstairs entrance gate to be painted, so that's what we did! We spent the morning painting white onto the fence. It was a tight spit for some of us. Taliah and Katrina were wedged into an area about an little more than foot wide to paint. Becky and Elizabeth were inside the porch painting and I finished the outside part. We were joined with 4 other members of the group from Virgina, Dave, Jordan, Trip, and Sarah and our TEAMeffort leader Tim. Dave and Jordan built the railing and Sarah an Trip helped with the painting. It was a lot of fun. We then ate lunch in the local park and and prepared baggies of rice and beans to pass out to people in the neighborhood. After lunch Becky, Elizabeth, Sarah, Jordan, Trip, myself, and our translator Harold walked around and talked with some of the people that live where we are working. Many of them were elderly and had lived in the area for many many years. They also had lots of grandchildren they were very proud of. Everyone was friendly and loved the rice and beans. Taliah, Katrina and Dave went back to Juan's houseto finish the painting. Juan's grandson, John Micheal had come to visit and wanted someone to play Wii with him. Becky and Elizabeth both joined him bit he was not all impressed with their Wii skills and kicked them off :-) After our worked day we came back to camp, cleaned up, ate dinner, and went to chapel. Tonight's message was the about the "baggage" we carry through our need for materials. We had a great discussions about pratical ways we can loosen our hold on things by such things as putting your phone away when you spending time with people you love. We are having a great time and can't wait until tomorrow when we paint another fence! Keep us in your prayers!! Love and miss you, The Puerto Rico mission team :-)