Fill/Compaction has been on hold Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We are respecting a request from the Barranca Barrio who asked that no trucks use the road these three days while the road is surface-treated (by the way, as of yesterday afternoon - ain't no way the whole road will be done by Sunday afternoon...). So if we get a green light Monday the trucks will resume hauling fill material from the mine and we will complete this third lift in a day or two.
What a fun week having my Church Family here - it went by WAY too fast!
After the team left for Santo Domingo Friday morning it suddenly got very quiet around here, and I was bummed.
Sure was great having so many good friends here, fun to catch up and visit. They got a lot accomplished as well!
Being here I have really come to appreciate the sacrifice team members make to come down. They are paying to fly and stay in the DR and most are using their limited vacation days to do so. We all treasure vacation time, so to spend a week of it here is a very meaningful thing to do. I have to point out McClendon Pruette using one of her only two weeks of vacation - how many youngsters would do this? She definitely has a gold star by her name :).
As I have said previously, a benefit of living here is being among a very special group of people - a very spiritually full group of people. The young members of the SRI staff here are just terrific people.
And at the same time, it is also wonderful to sit and visit with the almost 1,000 team members who are devoting their time and money to serve here in the DR.
Wow, I am surrounded by people serving others - just what we as the Body of Christ are all supposed to be doing daily in our lives.
As my great friend Nicole would say ... Blessed.
Here are some pics from the week ...
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| Local Traffic on the road to the mine ... |
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Looking Northeast from the Mine - toward the Clinic Site and San Juan
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| Outfielders - Holden and friend |
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| These guys have stopped by our lagoon - not sure what they are called ... |
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Beautiful sunset at the end of the day
- the grade stakes await their burial |
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| and thats an out at 1st! |
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| Brittany helping out |
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| Thats Dan as catcher and a Dominican future MLB player ... |
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| Not Just Civil Engineering! |
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| Concentrating and Working Hard! |
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| RRRRandy! |
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| Tim, David and George atop the container |
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| Earlier in the week - not much of a stockpile ... |
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| We have a nice stockpile of Fill - Ready to back to hauling Monday! |
Enjoy your week, please keep the project and everyone here in your thoughts and prayers.
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