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It's pretty unbelievable just how happy these people are.

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I've never really seen anyone really upset.

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They've always had smiles on their faces,

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and it's just for what they have,

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like the little shacks that they live in,

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the food source that they have,

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but I would say to someone who might want to come down here,

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is do it.

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I'm thankful God has gave me the opportunity

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to come down here and it's a huge blessing and it's a

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huge eye-opening to

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truly see what real poverty looks like.

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I can definitely say that I've changed

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and I can definitely say I've grown closer to God and there's probably

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some things I'm gonna change when I get back home. I know for one it's like

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these guys really have pretty much nothing and I have way too much of

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everything so I'm definitely going to be getting rid of some stuff. Pray about it

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and if you can don't think about it anymore just come.

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Another highlight would

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probably be me being a balloon artist that I'm not.

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It didn't matter whether it was a

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weird sombrero or a cat which wasn't a cat or a dog or whatever

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just I would

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blow up a balloon tight for the kids and whether it'd be just a snake or if it'd

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just be some random thing that I tied they'd always just laugh and giggle and

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play with it until it popped and I'd blow them up a new one and just to see the

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happiness over a simple balloon it's like the highlight of their day. So get

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up have breakfast have a group devotion you go out and you spend from like

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nine

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about five-ish working whether it be what all did we do we lay down cement

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we put

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in wells we dug wells we played with kids I gotta go fishing

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one day that was kind

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of cool that was a relaxed day and I'm thankful I had a day to just kind of

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chill and enjoy Panama a little bit yeah then come back for dinner and

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watch a

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movie or just hang out and fellowship with everyone and walking up first time

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I'm looking at where we're gonna be for the next week or so.

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You walk into our compound, the house that we stay in,

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and on the sides is where we sleep with our cots

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and our mosquito nets and all of our stuff surrounding it.

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And then as you walk out of our sleeping area, eating area,

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you walk down the path a little bit

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and it'll be our showers and bathroom.

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and the showers is just two knobs and a little

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cold water and you got to not take

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long showers at all you got to use like no water it's pretty much soap up or

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get

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wet a little bit soap up and then rinse a little bit of the soap off and then

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dry the rest of the soap off on your towel and pray that the towel will dry

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be dry but the next time you want to take a shower. And then the sinks are outside

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and

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the bathrooms you gotta throw your TP away instead of throwing it in the toilet. So

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that was interesting but I can say that I didn't throw my TP in the toilet. I was

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proud of that.

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Oh yeah. And by the grace of God there was internet. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there did.

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One of the highlights of my trip, well there's a couple,

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laying down cement

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The way they do it, we just order a big huge truck and pour it down here.

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If they don't have a machine, they do it on the ground and mix it by

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shovels.

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And they make a huge dome kind of thing and pour a bunch of water in the middle.

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And then they're just shoveling and shoveling into the middle and mixing it all up

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and then putting a wheelbarrow and dump it.

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just to see those guys not even really breaking a sweat and doing

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that and the

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the hot heat is just and how determined they were to do it and they did it

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without really complaining or anything like that I know if it was me I'd be

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like dying of thirst and taking breaks every five minutes or whatever but the

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guys down here they're just so determined to get work done I mean like

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sure they have stores but they had to take like an hour boat ride to go get

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there and we can just drive down to the little mini mart or whatever and get our

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groceries

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but and that and they only get like ten dollars a day wage.