J preaching with the teams before the event.
Alfre leading us in prayer.
We use gloves to pick up trash, so here is J requesting a "right handed glove" from Alfre... it only took him half a second to realize what J was doing.
A picture of the "cleaning" in action.
Organizing the teams for some baseball.
And Saturday night, after a hot day outside when all I wanted to do was take a shower and relax, I see something crawling in Aubrey's hair. I am immediately on "high alert" as bugs in general are not my thing, but especially bugs that tend to hide and you cannot easily see (fleas, lice... you probably see where I am going). I pick it off and ask J (with some panic in my voice), "what's this??!" And yes, much to my dislike, Aubrey had lice. I immediately go into overdrive (kinda OCD, crazy overdrive) by googling and sending J to the pharmacy for some medicine. (And of course I am suddenly itching all over the place just like all of you are at this moment!) Seeing that everything online says to simply place the sheets, clothing, stuffed animals, and other items in hot water and the dryer, I am slightly panicked. Because, we don't have hot water... and well we don't have a dryer either. So what am I going to do? So I do like every other person would and stuff Aubrey's baby and 2 stuffed animals in big baggies (something in which God provided from varying places in anticipation of this because we do not buy those here) and put them in the freezer and which are still in there 4 days later. (I read this somewhere to help kill them and if not the freezer then 2 days away from a host.) And I explained to Aubrey that her baby and animals had to go to the doctor in the freezer to get better. She was ok with this.
Our freezer full to the brim with French fries, coffee, ice and frozen stuffed animals. (We even threw J's hat in there for good measure... why not?)
J returns quite promptly with some medicine (as Dominican as can be)...
Who doesn't want to use lice shampoo with super heroes on the front?? I mean, it definitely makes me feel reassured seeing their fighting powers and their motto of "An intergalactic mission to kill the lice of the head". Doesn't that make you feel good and taken care of? And there are no directions anywhere so I follow what I read for the majority of lice shampoos. Now because I am crazy about this, we all get to use the "special shampoo" (which smells very strong of a flower bouquet and in fact has the last ingredient listed as "fragrance") and let it sit in our hair for a solid 10 minutes. Aubrey was ok with this and found shampooing and rinsing with our clothing on pretty fun. We then spent the rest of the evening combing through everyone's hair. Luckily, it appears Aubrey was the only one to have it and we caught it pretty early, but still it gives me the heebie jeebies to the max. And I have to give amazing credit to my husband who deserves a superhero t-shirt for being so calm and collected and willing to go through all of my long hair looking for these things. (And who actually continues to look because again I am crazy and think "oh, I have an itch, it must be lice.") Aubrey is getting better at sitting still as every night we search through her hair looking for nits. I guess you could call it a game to see if you can find one. (Oh and mind you, they don't have lice combs on this island. So we use a flash light, the finest comb we could find and ultimately go through hair by hair on Aubrey's head. I think it took us about 1.5 hours last night.) So we have an exciting date night scheduled again this Saturday for our special shampoo use. Funny how Saturday nights used to be so romantic, but I wouldn't trade these superheroes or the flower fragrance for anything.
The next morning, J, Rafael, the girls, and I drove to Nagua as they were starting a week long tournament in the name of AIM. (This is where we held the first completely Dominican led camp last March.) Our relationships with the coaches and one specific Pastor in the area continue to grow, Praise God!, and it was great to be back. Here are a few pictures of the day. Sorry there aren't many and not too great. I was watching 2 girls and holding 1 while on the field.
During the opening ceremonies. AIM was recognized again and J was asked to say a few words.
Here J is batting the "first pitch". :)
Our drive back from Nagua was much more downcast as we received news that Luis Chingping's wife passed away that afternoon (he is the president of the Christian Sports Association here in Sosua, someone we work very closely with and who actually traveled to the States with our guys a few weeks ago). As it often happens, this was very quick and quite a shock. One of those surreal moments as we had just seen her 1 week before at the airport picking Luis up with the other guys. It's always hard to understand when God takes someone so special away so suddenly especially for the family, so please be lifting up Luis and all their family and friends as they adjust to life without this special lady. There are always the "firsts" when someone passes away and we are quickly approaching the holidays.
We love you guys and your support and prayers. We are blessed to have such a faithful family with us every step of the way.
"I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world." John 16:33
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