Sunday, October 7, 2007

So today since we did not make it to the far west yesterday, we went to La Fordge to listen to Mike preach. The church was really nice and small, only about 45 or 50 people there including the 17 people in our group. The service was about 2 hours and Mike preached a really good message and I found out that Vogley is a really powerful translator. After the service on our way home I got the chance to make a business transaction with one of the local boys who sells necklaces. It was really funny because he was running behind the truck trying to sell this necklace. When we got home, we ate lunch and I got to do more dishes, WOO-HOO, and then the guys got ready to try and go to the far west again. I opted not to go this time because I wanted to stay here and try and get well, so I just passed all the stuff that Miss Pat wanted off to a young man named Jordan. Since I was not going to the far west, I went to Sonel’s with Melissa, Erin, Dr. Dell and two of the other members of the new group. It was really encouraging to have Dr. Dell there, because he knew just what he was going to do to help heal his wounds and it seemed to lift Mel’s spirits a little as well. The visit took a little longer today because of the diagnostic from Dr. Dell, but that is ok because Sonel is the man and since we had 3 new people with us, the trip home took longer as well because of stopping to talk with the locals and the photo opportunities. On the way home Judy, one of the new ladies, asked me if she could go to the class room when the school is in session and observe because she is a teacher, and I handed her off to Erin because I don’t know what is going on in the schools these days. She also wanted to know if she could walk around town and see some of Haiti and what the life of the Haitians is like, because the last time she was here she did not get to leave to compound at all. So, on Wednesday I am going to take a group of people into Port-de-Paix to see the town on market day and we are going to spend the first half of the day seeing some of the city. We got back at about 3 and I went into the kitchen to help Cathy cook dinner and keep the kitchen clean. We had a very good ham, scallop potato, pee salad, and cornbread dinner. After dinner and cleanup it was devotion time, and while they were having devotions almost all of the rest of the luggage showed up, and from 745 to 915 it was mass chaos as the suitcases were unpacked and things were attempted to be organized and sorted and put away. I don’t think they got quite as far as they wanted to and since the generator was scheduled to go off at 10 they bagged everything up and called it a night. I sat up and talked with Erin while she worked on my computer and then I did about half of my journal and went to bed at about 950ish. I got woken up at 1115 by Roland because Melissa wanted to call T-man to check on Lucinda, who has Malaria. After that, I went I made it to my bed and was done for Sunday. Peace.