Say cheese!!! Well today we went to Stewart Town to do some landscaping at the Methodist church there and we all made a bunch of new friends who loved to take pictures with us!

It was a bit of a drive and we had to make two trips, with Dan, Sara, Ezra, Gary, and some palm trees making the first trip and the rest of the group made the second trip. The first group did a great job of digging holes and planting the palm trees while they waited for the second group of us to make the trip to the work site. Once we all were there, we began to take large rocks from the area and use them to make flower beds. Eventually lunch came around and we were able to take a break for some beef stew, rice and beans, and some fruit bread. We also were all treated with some pop that some of us had been dearly longing for! Afterwards we got back to work on the flowerbeds and shoveled some topsoil into the beds and around the palm trees. But the funnest (yes we are on summer break and in Jamaica so we can say funnest) thing about today were the new friends.

After lunch a couple of younger kids started showing up to watch us work and to hang out with us. They loved our cameras and were taking pictures endlessly with us as they took plenty of funny pictures. They would put on our sunglasses and go around taking pictures of everyone. It was truly a fun experience to be with all these little dudes and dudettes, for they were making us laugh constantly! We are all looking forward to seeing them again tomorrow, and probably more of their friends will show up to hang out.

We got back around 4 or so and we just relaxed and hung out enjoying a great day down here in Jamaica! We see that we have it very nice here with a constant wind that always cools us off, and that it is cooler here than back in the U.S.

Carl

There are a lot of good pictures from today’s time at Stewart Town; so if you haven’t checked out the pictures at the bottom of the page because you did not know they were there, scroll down.  I had been calling it Stewartville and then we drove into town and I show the sign; my bad. Today was like most days I have experienced on service trips to Jamaica; we show up at a church to do some work and all of the sudden church members, kids, and locals start showing up out of curiosity, start visiting and then start working with us. It was a very good day.

Gary