Puerto Rico Day 3

An even brighter, early morning, my mom, Will, Emily and I made our way to a quaint coffee shop within walking distance from where we were staying. The Puerto Rican coffee is SO strong and it was outstanding. I loved it! Picture below is a native speaker I asked to proofread the story of Jesus' resurrection I was writing in Spanish for vbs the next day.  After walking back, we thought we would be so late, barely make it and everyone would've already eaten when we got back. But when we arrived back to the Salvation Army, the food hadn't all even been made yet. After eating and finishing getting ready (around 8 am) we made our way to Guaynabo for day 2 of the vbs. we started with the story/skit of Jesus dying on the cross. I read the Spanish version of the story for this. After a craft and lunch, I switched to help with painting one of the new trailers. One great thing about today was the fact that it had been consistently raining off and on and Puerto Rico was/still is in a drought. God was putting on my heart to go inside the sanctuary (weird, right?). This was a different building, but I went in there anyways and in the sanctuary was the pastor's son and his young son as well as our group leader and the entire project leader. The leader and I talked for about an hour and she said that God put it on her heart to tell me that I was so strong and she said she could see it. She had some personal adversity that she went through, and that helped build her to where she is today and it's just phenomenal how much we related. After returning from Guaynabo, my mom and I snuck off to the beach (again) for some alone time. About an hour after we had arrived, other members from out church group came, and we played beach volleyball and hung out in the warm, warm, warm water (picture below). it was relaxing and much needed. After eating a typical Puerto Rican dinner, we had our nightly meeting (during which, about 8 previous things connected together with something my mom and I found in our bibles, what kids said, our devotional and everything really). It was amazing how soooo many things connected at once and it was great to see God work right within us. After reflection, we headed to bed.

 

Coffee shop adventures!

 

 

 

Joniel, who we thought was named Darnell, and ended up calling Donut all week.