Mission: Puerto Rico, 2019

The Puerto Rico Mission Trip in a Nutshell. *laughs* Or, really, a YouTube Video that Karina, one of the people who went, made from all the photographs everyone took. It's lovely, and the lyrics go so well with the pictures. I love that she put John in every time they sang "sweat", his sticking his landing, and Kaleia being the little girl who can do anything.

I'll do more details soon, I promise.

But I loved turning my face up to the rain when it was just pouring while we were replacing the plumbing at the camp.

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