Well I have almost finished my first week here in the Dominican Republic and things are going great. I arrived safely from Guatemala on Sunday afternoon and had the missionaries waiting for me. So far this week I have been staying at their house as we look for another place to stay. A house opened up on Monday and we have been talking to the owner throughout the week. It looks like the family is going to move out tomorrow and we will be able to move in Saturday. It is a 3 bed 2 bath house and I will be living with another teacher at the school and a Dominican pastor. The rent is very cheap here which is nice, about half the price of what I thought I had to pay.
So far this week we have had training at the school from about 8-12. In the afternoon I am normally home trying to get settled in and get everything taken care of. I got a Dominican cell phone today for $4 and $8 a month for the service. I am looking at buying a small Honda scooter to get around town. It just so happened that a friends sister in law decided to sell hers at about half the price of another, and it is in great condition.
In 4 days here I have been able to make so many connections. The missionaries that I work with know so many people that either run baseball leagues or baseball camps. I have talked to one man that runs the league for the next town over. Today the missionary was on the phone with an ex-mlb player who is now the president of the Arizona Diamondbacks Dominican team. He is coming to La Vega Sunday to meet with him. I have made contact with Ultimate Potential Inc., which is a Christian baseball outreach ministry that has camps in the Dominican Republic. One of the guys here that is around my age was wanting to get a student ministry/bible study going here soon and wondered if I could help. He did it once before and got up to 150 kids attending each week. There are so many different areas that I would love to help, so it is going to be hard to narrow it down so I don't wear myself out.
Thank you all for your continued support and prayers. It has been so encouraging to know people are praying for me in the US and in Guatemala. Right now I could use prayer that everything with the house and scooter work out, and that God would lead me into a ministry that would be meaningful. I don't want to just join 10 different things, and then wear myself out and not be effective. I will keep you informed as things unfold in the next week. And next week is still training at the school. School starts on the 17th.
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