Friday report

Friday morning we ate the French toast that we made on Thursday. It was sort of eggy. (But, I, Mike, think it was excellent and have ordered it again for Sunday morning.)

For work on Friday, the boys straightened up the upstairs of the school room that we have painted all week. Then, all of a sudden, they heard a scream downstairs. It was the girls cleaning the kitchen. Alyssa and Natalie had found the first . . . cockroach. They darted to the door—both the cockroaches and the girls. Joy cautiously approached one of the cabinets and slowly pulled out the tupperware until she found the cockroach. She picked up the first hard object near her and slew the five-inch long beast (Mike here again, it was about 1 1/2 inches if the truth be known). We continued to get out the tupperware pieces until we found two more big ones. The guys finally came to our rescue and Randall was the hero of the day. He helped us and when cleaning out another cabinet down below, he found a gigantic spider (Mike here again—they are not lying. I think it was the biggest spider that I have ever seen—that one may have had a five-inch diameter.) It had an egg sack that broke but fortunately by that time we had gotten it into a garbage can with about five inches of bleach water.

We were interrupted from our cleaning duties by lunch, American tacos. Alyssa and Natalie volunteered to make tacos in the other kitchen to get away from the cockroach kitchen. After lunch, Mr. Schmidt, the other missionary that the Pfaunmillers know here in Puerto Rico, came and made us a second round of Pina Coladas (without alcohol). They were made with pineapple juice, coconuts from his own trees and ice. They are very good. John Wiser used a machete to get the shell of the coconut down to the husk and then opened it to drink the milk and eat the meat.

After lunch we quickly finished cleaning the cockroach kitchen and left. We then travelled to a nearby park. A main attraction of this park is that it has various and sundry types of animals, but mainly iguanas. John tried to feed several of them pieces of his coconut.

After returning home and resting for about an hour, we prepared for the evening youth activity at the church. The games tonight were basketball and volleyball with several different twists. Joy, Zack, Alyssa and Randall beat a team of Puerto Ricans where only the boys could shoot, but they had to stay in one spot the whole game. The girls had to rebound and pass to get the ball to an open guy.

Twelve extra large pizzas were the fare for the refreshment time. Tonight we had 67 people present for the young people's meeting. Mike preached on justification, but because it was in Spanish, I didn't understand it. You'll have to ask him about it. Our group sang our special spanish song, "Solo Hay Paz en el Nombre De Cristo. " After the service, the team and the Puerto Riqueños played volleyball for about an hour. At the end, we had to say goodbye to a lot of new-found friends.

Dictated by the girls on the team and written by Mike (Dad)