Safely here at Casa Batesada

Hola friends and family! If I mix Spanish and English at times it is because my brain is trying to intrepret and it is rusty. Esta bien = It is well or Okay. Our flights and I emphasize flights, were pretty much on time all day Friday and Sat. morning. The amazing blessing was that our bags made it through all the transfers, Seattle to Dallas, Dallas to Boston, Boston to Miami and finally Miami to Santo Domingo. We entered into some extreme loss and sadness in the Dominican COTN family. Several of the staff have lost loved ones in the last week. Please pray for Juanchi and Pablo, prayers for comfort and peace I know would be appreciated in these times of grief. Carly and I are so fortunate that the first team we are working with here is a team of college students from LaTourneau Univ. in Longview, TX. We just got off the Casa roof, a quaint meeting place, where we spent over an hour in praise and affirmations. Their leader, Daniel is a gifted worship leader. The everyone in the group is so special and came with hearts to serve and love on the families in the bateyes. They will be pouring 3 cement floors this week and I will have pictures to post later in the week. Did you ask how's the weather...needless to say we will be guzzling from our water bottles. It is hot, 85 degrees with that special moisture in the air called, humidity. Loving it right now, really. Thanks again for your thoughts and prayers. There's more to come later in the week. Vic for Carly