Sunday, October 21, 2007

Today is my last Sunday in Haiti for two months and I got up feeling much better but missing breakfast and went downstairs to help Liz in recovery and check to make sure that Sonel still wanted to go to children’s church today. I did not have any clean Sunday clothes; I hung out outside of the Citadel with the children that are not allowed in because of their clothes. We had a wonderful time listening from the outside and hanging out where we could not get yelled at. After communion I Liz and I went over the get Sonel changed and out of bed and take him to the children’s church location. As I was getting him ready I noticed little Anita in a little pink dress and just chillin eating some bread, so I asked her if she wanted to go to and she lit up like a Christmas tree. So I took that as a yes and the four of us went to children’s church. Today one of the ladies in the new group did the service and she taught the children about Elijah and the prophets of Baal. It was really funny to see her try and get the kids to act out things, and it seemed that Sonel and Anita enjoyed not being in the recovery room for a little bit. After the lesson was over Anita wanted to find daddy because she had some breakfast for him so we walked over to the church and Sonel wheeled behind, and we found everyone coming out to go home and daddy was right there to snag up his little one and eat some bread with her. After church we all just kind of hung around until lunch was ready. Liz and I went down to take care of the patients and get them ready to be moved outside. While we were doing that Erin came down looking for scrubs because there were going to be 25 baptisms and we did not want the people to have to wear wet clothes. After a bit we went upstairs for lunch and then right back downstairs to begin empting the recovery room so that the plumbers could start the work they need to do without getting anything dirty or ruined. Fortunately, we had some volunteers to help because Maureen had a lot for us to do and we found a broken toilet that was overflowing with dirty water and floaters. It was nothing I haven’t seen before and Liz is medical so we quite nicely tackled that obstacle quickly and efficiently. The main reason we did that was because it smelled so bad that we felt bad for the patients that had to sleep in the same vicinity as it. According to the plumbers the clog is in the drain somewhere because a plunger was not doing the job, so we cleaned up best we could fixed the odor issue and told all the patients not to use that bathroom. By that time it was about 430 and we were all done downstairs so, per request, I took a couple of the people on a little hike up the mountain to see some of the land and meet some of the people. We picked up a tour guide that spoke very good English and I let him take over and he led us to a real 11 on 11 soccer game, uniforms, referees, the whole nine yards. It was really cool to see their skill and how many people were gathered to watch. One of the guys and I wanted to see if we could sub in but our guide thought that was a bad idea and the clouds started to roll in so we headed back to camp. When we got back it was almost time for dinner so I jumped in the shower and got ready to eat. After dinner I chatted with some of the women that came in and tried to get a CD player working for Jody before devotions. After devotions, I let Deb use my computer to do some internet stuff and then headed down to Mike and Teresa’s to sleep there again. I did a few emails, chatted with one of my boys and hit the sack. Peace