Today is Sunday, what a relief to have some rest. I mean some because we went to church this morning at 9:30, we did have our choice of going to one that started at 6:30 or the one at 9:30. I was disipointed in myself that I forgot to bring my camera to the service. The worship was amazing, Everything was in creole but you could just feel God's presence there. They started out with about an hour of praise and worship, I recognized some of the contemporary music we sing at our church. Then they had preaching and was over at 11:00, I was told that since today was election day they cut the service short it normally goes to after noon. but what a blessing to experience Haitians worshiping.
After church all the Global Outreach staff gathered for lunch since we had so much turkey and fixings left over from Thursday. We don't get together very often, but we did get together last night for cake, Xander turned 7yrs yesterday.
We got settled into the house we are staying in. We had a pretty restful night until about 4:30 when the roosters started to crow. There are so many chickens just roaming around. Yesterday I was hanging out some towels to dry and the kids were chasing a chicken and her chicks, they caught about three of them. They wanted to keep them and I had to make them give them back to their mother. The things they do for entertainment. Next Nicky will have them chasing the goats and trying to ride them..HaHaHa. Neither the chickens or the goats belong to Global. They somehow get through the fence even with necklaces made of sticks to try and keep them from getting out of their home fence.
The kids are so excited about getting to hand out food again tomorrow morning. It is hard to find time to homeschool. There are always things that need to be done, Items that have been donated need to be sorted out so they can get donated to the right people, food trailers need to be cleaned and repaired to try to keep bugs and rats and mice out. Who knew when I would see the day that I sifted the bugs (big and little) out of the cream of wheat and flour that I buy at the grocery store. And lizards are all over the house, but they are good because they eat the mosquitoes and other bugs. Which is great but they leave little presents on my counters in the kitchen. This is all part of being in Haiti. Xander got stung yesterday by a wasp of some sort, the other missionaries down here say that is very common since they build nests everywhere and they are very hard to see until it is too late. He got to go play with his friend Josiah and that made it better. He also got to go swimming on his birthday he loved it. The kids are transitioning well, Nicky stays so busy working on all the machinery here, He says he will nver get caught up. And me well I'm still trying to get settled, I hope it doesn't take the whole three months.
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