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We have been trying hard to learn our Spanish but it really doesn't seem to be going very fast! We are like the slowest learners of all time!! So frustrating!

But we study our lessons for meeting in Spanish and English and we prepare Spanish answers AND....Micah and Jude both answered in Spanish last week, and ALL 5 OF THE KIDS ANSWERED IN SPANISH AT WATCHTOWER!!!!! Yeah! We're proud of them, and now they've completely showed us up and we have to pull it together and answer tomorrow night:/

Also, Virginia, in Spanish Bare-he-me-a, has the first return visit of our family. Woman thanked her and told her that her door is always open and she can come back anytime to talk about the bible! Really everyone we talk to acts like this but this is the first one who actually said. So we'll return, especially since Fico, the sp. pioneer here said she doesn't talk to him. So we told Fico it is "parquet Bare-he-me-a es muy Linda que tu" because Virginia is cuter than he is:) he doesn't think she is!!l Lol!

Then at the next door we took the brother spoke and he showed her the video and she said "yes, please come back and study the bible with me, anytime and any day!" She is about 75/80 years old and can't read but loves the bible!!

Can't wait to return. Was a long very treacherous road back to them though!!:/:)

Here is a picture from service today!!

And here is an example of service break. They are called Colmadas. They are everywhere, but not this nice, neat, and clean....and never once has anyone used a bathroom during service! Nunca!!!

And here are my crazy travel partners!!!

And.......

Jehovah has answered all my prayers, and then some:/ :) all the blogs I read, difficulties and hardships always sounded like such a "good experience" We've experienced them all and the blessings and joys do WAY out weigh the difficulties! Plus, you truly feel Jehovah's love and care in situations. What this experience has done for my personal relationship with Jehovah can not be even explained. You must all come here!!

However, it IS difficult and stressful at times and I saw even those things thru rose colored glasses before coming here, but living it doesn't feel like "such a great experience":/ but surviving it does! :)

But I also want to say, when it read about the BUGS, never ever did I think that would be a good experience. In fact I thought that would be more than I could handle. And yet, we are sharing our living quarters with such things and I am surviving, not sure I'll ever think it was ok though;)

But it also helps me appreciate being at home. I didn't know I loved Wisconsin so much!!!:)

But this view makes up for the above view....which by the way, that is the boys bed it's on:0

We are in the house we will be in our house and settling in. It is a beautiful house! A sister from Germany owns it and lives in the unfinished upstairs. It's at the top of the mountain. We are about 30 minutes from Rincon beach which has apparently been written as one of the most beautiful beaches in the world. And it is THE most beautiful beach we have ever been to!

But, we are not in a tourist part of dominican, well, the Dominicians vacation here, and a lot of Europeans have made it home, but it is very very local here. Including this beautiful house. We are at the end of the pinisula and the main water lines to here broke in the middle of the night on Sunday/Monday, (a week and 2 days ago) causing the one and only road to collapse. They got the road opened back up within 24 hours, but the entire town of Las Galeras has not had water since!!!! 

This house has a huge tinakua (water holding tank) for this very reason, and for when the water turns 

off, which it does daily, but we have to be very careful of the use of water! We NEVER leave water on. When we shower we wet, turn it off, soap up, turn it on rinse off and get out. But it's only cold 
water anyways so we are not TO temped to linger in it anyways:) We also don't flush until 2 people have pee-ed and we do not flush ANYTHING down the toilet. Poopy paper goes in garbage next to toilet:/ :) 

Also, they do not spay for bugs here:/ :( This is the campo here, country. Spiders, lizards, cockroaches, wasps, Mosquitos, and MILLIONS OF BILLIONS of ants!!! They all live right in here in the house with us.

We spoke to the bros and sisters in service this morning about it and they laughed and said "yea" and basically not to worry about the spiders, they run away from you, and cockroaches don't bite, snakes and scorpions be afraid of.....we've seen neither of them - yet!!

Also, things I will remember to bring next year! A rain coat or umbrella, it is mostly beautiful but when it rains it pours and it is sudden, in the middle of the service day, and then we step inside wait for it to stop then have to trug the leftover rivers:)

It has been beautiful all day and all of a sudden it started to pour, our whole group was all at the same place at that moment and the old woman whose house we were next to forced us all in her porch and set out as many chairs as she had and we all 7 sat there while she talked with one of the sisters! Just amazing and kind people!