Day 6

This is our second day without water, it's not that bad, but our water tank on the roof was having some problems so they took it away and are doing repairs. We can hear the men on the roof banging around early in the morning and the local church started it's sermon early this morning as well. How would I know? Well their sound system is cranked up all the way so the entire hill can hear what they say at 7AM. Actually it was probably 7:30 but I was trying to sleep so I'm not too sure on that.

Emily's pictures of the sunrise in Samana

But coffee makes everything right!

Emily's picture-she makes coffee every morning.

Back out in service today Joanna and I met with the ASL group at the Kingdom Hall. Unfortuantly none of the elders were able to make it out today so we didn't have any territory to do. But Joen and Domingo were out and they had several deaf to visit in the morning so we went with them. The rest joined Spanish, fortunately they were meeting at the Hall too!

The first person we visited was a 12 year old boy named Miguel. Domingo went over the signs he had been learning: girl, boy, man, woman, Jesus, good, bad, future, etc.

This sister is from Norway, she lived there for 10 years. Before that she was in Africa. I'm not sure how long she is in the DR for though. We passed them on our way to another return visit.

The next call wasn't home so we stopped by a small snack stand and talked to an old deaf man. He told us when he was a young boy he had climbed a tree to eat fruit, however while he was up there some bug attacked him and he fell out. That resulted in his loss of hearing.

Using Joen's picture book and the Listen and Learn brochure we taught him man, woman, Adam and Eve. He told us he thought he was dense because he was having a hard time signing and remembering but we encouraged him that he was doing a really good job!

We headed out to the next house but alas, that call wasn't at home either. We parted ways and headed back to our house.

In the afternoon we went downtown for some groceries and shopping. This evening we are going across the street for a surprise going away party for a sister in ASL! Hopefully we will finally get to do some Bachata or Merengue!