Mission Life

A friend serving a mission in Santo Domingo shared this picture with us. We have seen the same thing a couple of times but never got a picture.

This spider was in our Sunday School class. It was HUGE and was running all over. Everyone was watching it through the whole lesson. The bishop came in and tried to catch it with his bare hands. We found out that it is a teen age tarantula.

All the senior Elders with the President at Puerto Plata. President Douglas is 3rd from the left.

The senior sisters with Sister Douglas. Sister Douglas is sitting on the left. The chefs are fixing our dinner in the background.

The back yard of our villa at Puerto Plata (in the rain).

This is how they park on our street. The white building is our apartment building. Our bedroom window is the one in the middle. We are on the 3rd floor.

These are mosaics - pretty cool.

Beautiful park near the mosaics. We see bridal pictures being taken here quite often.

Flowers are sold just outside the church fence.

This picture was taken our of our apartment window. I was fascinated watching this woman doing laundry. There is a plastic surgery center next door. She is pouring detergent into the agitator. I think the other side spins. The white line at the bottom is water spinning out. We have a washer/dryer stacked combo but this is the way most people do laundry (if they have a washing machine and that is a big if.) Almost all laundry is air dried on fences, lines or trees.

The Guard at the gas station.

Me at work! Yikes!!!

This is a very common sight although usually they are carrying much more bread.

One of our students was sweet enough to bring us cajuil. It is the fruit of the cashew tree. They boil it up and then squeeze out all the water and then make a syrup of fresh water and sugar and cinnamon and spices and then cook it again. It has a very different texture.

Elder Walters on his birthday. They have very amazing candles here!

Some students celebrating with birthday cake!

This was in the chapel. It is about 2 inches long. The awful thing was that a group of toddlers were playing with it. I hate cockroaches!!