Mission Trip to the DR 2016: Day 5: Construction at Margarita

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

They blew the horn at 6:00am and I got up, got dressed, and did my morning devotion. Then we all met in the Upper Room at 6:40am for morning worship and a speaker. We went down to the Dining Hall for breakfast and I had a roll, ham, and eggs. Then we got on the cattle trucks and I headed back to Margarita, but this time to work with construction. When we got there we got to play with the kids for a little bit while the construction guys got everything set up. We started with doing a block line where we passed the heavy cement blocks from one person to another so the blocks were closer to where we would be building. It hurt really bad though because I didn't have gloves at first and the cement blocks were tearing up my hands and giving me blisters. Luckily this one girl wasn't a part of the block line and let me borrow her work gloves. After we finished the block line Josh had me get up on a scaffold and use a trowel to level out the concrete. It was actually a lot of fun and I wasn't too bad at it. I finished that and that got back down and moved some more blocks around. Then it was time for lunch and we went to the one building for sandwiches. The one guy brought his guitar and played and sang songs while we ate. We finished eating and went back to the construction site. We moved some more blocks and then for the rest of the time I got buckets filled with cement and concrete and carried them to the workers who needed them and then lifted them up to the guys on the scaffold. This really gave my arms and back a workout. At one point in time it just started raining, but luckily it didn't last long. Some workers were hanging out with the village kids and they went over to the sugar cane field and brought back some sugar cane for everyone to try. It actually tasted really good. Eventually we ran out of cement and it was time to head back to the compound. We finally got back and I took a long cold shower. Then we had dinner and I ate a roll and mashed potatoes. After dinner we got dressed for church, but this time we took the school bus to church because it was raining. We went to a small church in town and it was really nice. The people who sang had very nice voices. Church ended with everyone greeting and hugging each other and then we left. We got back to the compound, played some cards, and then went to bed.