Hello! It's a beautiful Saturday afternoon in Haiti. This morning we got to go to the beach, Chou Chou Bay to be exact. It was awesome! The team is here (13 in all) and doing great. They have jumped right in to projects, playing with kids, helping with laundry, and absorbing all they can and trying to process their experiences in Haiti. It's been fun to get to know them, and to hear their reactions and thoughts about Haiti and their time here. They are gracious to invite us to join them for devotions each evening which has been neat.
So the past few days we have been doing our usual routine plus a bit extra with the team here. Chris has been going to clinic each morning and now and then he will get to go down in the afternoon if someone comes in needing medical care. On Thursday he was able to watch a birth, see two stab wounds sewn, and a little guy's finger stitched up as well. We spent a good amount of Friday scraping paint with some team members and Kris in the hospital rooms at the clinic. After trying a few methods of scraping we resorted to using machetes, which worked great! It was super hot but it felt so good to do some hard work. We were all very thankful to discover that only two of the rooms needed to be scraped before the new paint is applied! Yesterday afternoon we all took a walk to see Gener (Cory's gardner)'s garden across the river. What a beautiful walk. It was fun to let him show off his plants and various plots of land that he owns and plants on.
Talking and playing with kids has been one of the teams' favorite activities so far. It is interesting to get their perspective on the kids we have seen so often the last time we were here and the first two weeks of this trip. It's cool to see each person on their unique, individual journey. You definitely can't take everything in and learn everything God has for you in one day, or even one trip. Even after eight months we couldn't sum it all up easily!
Tomorrow will be the kid's program's big party on the compound. Everyone is pretty excited about it. There will be a parade with instruments, refreshments, a puppet show, and who knows what else. Some big thunder heads seem to be coming our way, which has happened the last few days as well. We haven't had a huge downpour in a while, so we'll see if these clouds are playing tricks on us to. Have a great Sunday, and Happy Father's Day to our wonderful Dads!!! ( a little late :)