Sunday, March 18, 2012
Well, I had told the team that it never gets cold in Haiti,
but I actually got cold while I was sleeping last night! We woke up this morning and were
treated to Sunday breakfast (huevos rancheros) that was actually served to us
at the table by Chef Ernie.
Then we went to church at the Haitian Lifeline church right
next door to the house we are staying in.
They have a worship team with all the instruments and a singer that
sings REALLY loud. Some of the
songs we could pick out the melody and recognize the English version. It was neat to actually have an idea of
what they were singing. One song
was All in All…”You are my strength when I am weak, You are the treasure that I
seek, You are my all in all…Jesus, Lamb of God, worthy is Your Name…” Our good friend Celissa translated the
message for us, which was out of Ephesians 6 and the importance of putting on
the full armor of God in order to fight the devil’s schemes.
After church we went on a tour of the Lifeline facility and
then the village and up to the dam.
Village kids followed us around, climbing all over us the whole
way. For those of you who might remember
the picture of me with the adorable tiny baby from a few months ago (it was my
Facebook profile pic for a while), her mother, Milan, grabbed me when I was out
in the village and took me into her house to see her mother, Monique. When I went in there instead of staying
with the rest of the group on the tour, I noticed I was being followed…Ryan had
sent Corey to be my bodyguard.
Those guys are a bunch of worrywarts down here, ha ha. Monique was in bed, in severe pain and
couldn’t walk. So I went back to
Lifeline (with Corey in tow) to get Janet, the nurse from Kentucky, and Celissa
to interpret. It was determined
that Monique has bad back problems due to her hard life of lifting large
buckets of water in and out of the canal every day, which is her job. So all they could do was give her pain
medicine and a cane.
After lunch the majority of the team went to Barbancourt, to
the orphanage property, and began work.
This group has a lot of various skills, from framing to electrical, so
it is a blessing. They already got
a lot done in just one day. They
are beginning to sort out the pieces of the main large orphanage house that
arrived in the container the last day of our last team’s trip, but we have a
problem. Everything is numbered
and is supposed to be assembled a particular way, but the plans we have don’t
go into that detail. Please pray
that we will be able to get the correct building plans from the company in New
Zealand that we ordered the buildings from 2 years ago.
I stayed back at the mission and worked with Celissa on
understanding the laws applying to the orphanage and filling out our licensing
application. Pastor Tommie (P-Tom)
stayed back to prepare his messages for the revival he will be preaching at
this coming weekend on La Gonave Island.
Ernie stayed back and started his very own missionary
culinary school. He taught Candice
and Michelle how to make homemade refried beans. Then he taught Brittany and Victoria how to make homemade
cinnamon rolls. Victoria really
got into it and even looked up a recipe for cream cheese icing. So we had quite a dessert treat after
dinner tonight!
Apparently, Doug Westmoreland, aka “Gray Squirrel,” has a
tradition of christening every place he travels to with some trick entailing
putting steel wool balls on the end of a wire and spinning it around fast so
that it sparks and looks pretty cool.
So he and “Bald Eagle” Corey Clayton, Ryan and P-Tom went out on the
soccer field tonight to have some fun.
P-Tom, for some reason, has also taken it upon himself to
become my personal trainer, I’m not sure why…I think he is worried because I’m
a wimp or something…so tonight he took me, a girl named Hannah from Kentucky
and Celissa down on the soccer field with his laptop and we did the Insanity
Fast and Furious workout video. It
had rained earlier in the evening so I thought I might get out of it, but it
stopped, so I didn’t. Thankfully,
his battery went dead 5 minutes into the workout. I thought I off the hook again, but then he just took over
leading the class. Three Haitian
guys came to watch and laugh at us and Brittany and Victoria came to be our
cheerleaders. I survived, but I’m
worried about what Trainer P-Tom has in store for tomorrow night.
Our internet has been giving us problems, so if you don’t hear
from us, that is why. Larry is our
hero because he fixed the hot water heater last night. J
We have so much to do on this trip that our heads are
spinning, but it is nice to take a little time out here and there to experience
the people in the village and also to fellowship with each other. There’s truly no fellowship like
mission team fellowship. God has
put together another GREAT team, we are blessed.
Thank you for continuing to lift us up in prayer. You are just as much a part of our team
by doing that.
Blessings,
Nikki
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