Day Three

hello everybody. We have completed the third day of our missions trip. We started the day off with half the team painting the floors of two of the Sunday school rooms in the church and the other half painting another school room. That took most of the morning. After lunch we cleaned up and passed out invitations for the youth rally this week. I went with Mike and Faith. We had a couple of good responses, but most of the people's children were already grown up. I got to go to the grocery store whith Mrs. Pfaunmiller. It was really exciting getting to see the differences between American and Puerto Rican grocery stores.

At 7:00 PM, we went to the church for a teen rally. There were about 45 people there tonight. We had a lot of neat experiences talking with the other young people. Many of them do not speak much English and most of us do not speak much Spanish, so we do lots of charades. It was fun to try to communicate with them and get to know them better. Mike gave a message on sin and we had snacks and played lots of neat games. One of the games we played tonight was having two teams and one person from each team was blindfolded. As they were blindfolded, there were two water guns that were hid on each half of the court. The teams had to call out to their person where to go to find the water gun. The first person to find it could take off the blindfold and go and shoot the other person. It was hard if the gun was placed close to the opposing line as the other team would shout out wrong directions and try to confuse the blindfoldee. It wasn't bad to be the one who got wet though.

Besides it being very warm, we are having an excellent time. We appreciate all your prayers. I love you, mom and dad.

Oh, by the way. Randall brought in a can today and it had a gigantic spider in it— the size of a tarantula. It almost gave Alyssa and me a heart attack. We almost gave the guys heart attacks when we screamed.

Ok, I'll close this epistle for tonight.

Love,
Natalie

P.S. from Alyssa— I love you mom, dad, Michael and Dave.