Friday, May 14, 2010

One Month left.

Tomorrow is 1 month from the day that we get off the airplane in Colorado. That really gives me mixed emotions. So many things will happen here before we leave and then the missionary training in the states. Loving what I do here each day and loving the children and wanting to be able to talk to the Haitian people. Packing things to leave here and packing things to take home. Grandchildren who we will get to see that we know have grown as we saw them on Skype last week for my birthday. Baileys birthday and she will be 5 the week that we come home.
What a mixed group of feelings.

Time has flown so fast. Glen has spent his days helping with the materials needed to help people rebuild their houses. He hauled 1450 block today and some of them he handled more than once. He is already in bed tonight. He has hauled alot of sand this week and also cement, rebar, doors and other supplies that are needed. Chris and he spent one day trying to get the papers for the dump truck.
He has decided what Haitian traffic is like. He say that it is like being in a big race where all classes of cars are racing at the same time and then you look at the other side of the road and the same thing is happening. All different kinds of cars,trucks, and buses racing down the road as fast as they can go.
Today there was one lane of traffic in Titiyan and a dump truck went thru at full speed thru the market. All they do is honk their horn and expect you to get out of the way.
It has been two weeks since the accident where the little boy died. Glen is missing the children of the village as there is a different attitude in the children. That makes Glen sad and if you are praying for us. Please pray for Glen and the children. He loves being with them and it is hard now.
Tonight I went to a orphanage in Titiyan. It had fallen down in the earthquake. The 30 children there have been sleeping in tents in the yards. They are working hard to get a building finished. A girl from Gill named Abby arrived yesterday and she is here to help.
Yesterday I spent the day working to clean wedding dresses. Gobal here in Haiti has wedding dresses. Beautiful ones that they loan out so that people have a wedding dress. The dresses that we delivered will be driven as far as they can on a car and then will have a 2 hour ride on a horse up the mountain to where there will be 3 weddings on Saturday.
This week I only worked in the Burn Clinic. Other weeks I have gone with a group from North Carolina to different towns, tent cities and up in the mountains to have clinics.
We have a 10 month old that we are treating who reached into a pot of boiling cereal and has third degree burns on arm and fingers. This is about the 5 or 6 one of these burns that we have seen since I have been here. We have seen many people burnt from riding on the back of a Moto. They will have up to 5 people and their supplies on these Motorcycles and legs get burnt. We have treated people after car accidents. This week a man that we had gone out in the rain to get after a car accident came back to see us and asked to pray for us. He prayed in French and quoted the 23rd Psalm. It was a beautiful prayer of thanksgiving.


1 comment:

  1. Thank you for the update. I know it was hard to write. We are looking forward to seeing you and hearing everything the Lord is doing both there and in your hearts. We love you two so much and are so...glad, happy, excited, overjoyed...to see you do what you KNOW you were CREATED to do.

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