Missions Trip to Puerto Rico

C joined ten other students and two teachers for a missions trip to Puerto Rico. The teachers are both Spanish teachers and each have five kids/young adults. They left on March 13th in the evening and returned on March 18th at midnight. 

His group was one of the smallest groups going out from his school that week. The most popular and large groups (and the ones which his friends chose) went to Ireland and Belize.

C was in the role of a leader since he was more mature than the other seniors on the trip. They stayed in a hotel (many boys to a room) and their meals were from local take out places and an occasional sit down restaurant. 

The weather was very warm. They painted a building. 

Here is C in front of his completed work.

The painting must have been done over two day since I notice that C is wearing two different shirts!

They played basketball with some local kids, they did crafts with kids, and they worked in an orphanage.

They tried to minister to homeless but they didn't find many homeless people. A good problem to have! C also said that the orphanage didn't have many kids in it.  They played on the beach when they weren't working.

On the last day they toured the old city of San Juan. 

Here are some other photos that were shared but I don't know much about them.

C has mixed feeling about the trip. He enjoyed going to a new country. He wished that he was with his friends. The teachers loved having C there. They had so many nice things to say about him. They want him to come back next year as a chaperone. The chances of that are slim since the missions trip week will likely not match up with his college spring break. 

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