2nd Pres Mission Blog

We arrived safely back in Roanoke on February 16th around 9:00 pm. Thank you for your comments, thoughts, prayers and warm welcome home. What an amazing trip! I already miss saying hola to our Domican friends.
Much was accomplished on the trip and here are some of the numbers behind a lot of hard work:

50 surgeries
1530 Barrio patients seen
140 cinder blocks laid
2 loads of sand mixed for cement and concrete
1 load of gravel shoveld in place
12x12x25 footers for the kitchen

Although productivity is very important, this trip is not just about the numbers. It's about meeting and working with people. Making new friendships and deepening existing ones.
Sharing tears and laughter with your team and with people that don't even speak the same language - everyone understands a smile, a hug and duck duck goose! (we could not of done it without our interpreters) It's about working together and reaching out to care for those that truly need help. But at the end of the week, you discover that it is the Dominican people that helped you. The New Testament scripture read at Youth Sunday says it so well - Luke 12:22-34