Saturday, October 13, 2007
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
I got woken up at 5 this morning to be involved in the prayer circle for little Lovely who was not doing so well. She was having a hard time breathing on her own and the doctors could not keep her stable. She was a little fighter though, all the way until 830 when she just could not anymore and unfortunately passed away. After that they slowly started to allow people back into the recovery room and I went down to see Sonel and got to see them change his dressings and his sore’s looked really good today, a little bloody though, but getting better. After that it was about 10 so I headed to the dining hall to meet the people that I was taking to the market. There was a good turn-out, about 9 and 2 interpreters, and Janeil had us take a bed frame and a mattress to Claudette’s new house so we took a back road path. That actually worked out to be a good thing, because it gave everyone the chance to see a little more of the country, and walk through some of the muddy terrain. After we dropped off the bed and chatted with some of her neighbors, we headed down the muddy mess they call a path into town which is where we met the coolest little boy, who Brooke got the chance to lead to Christ while we were walking, I thought that was pretty amazing. When we got to the actual road, we stopped at one of the convenient stores to buy some drinks and snacks and Sinclair, ventured across the street to buy some sugarcane from one of the venders and he did very well with no interpreter. Now it was time to walk and so we headed down the road to the market. We stopped at this store on the way to exchange some American money to Haitian, and the owner did not give them a very good deal and I was mad a Sarmone for allowing that. It happens though, nothing you can do about it. When we got to the market, they were pretty amazed at the size and randomness of the retailers, and we just simply walked around and through the whole market, talking to the venders and taking pictures and gaining more people in our group as the trip went on. We even got harassed by a crazy person until one of the interpreters politely asked him to leave. I bought some Kanab (jelly covered acorns) and Patay’s (meat filled fried bread), and got some of the group to try them but not all of them, because they were too afraid to eat. After about an hour of wondering around the market it was time to head back, so away we went. We stopped to buy more snacks and drinks and then took a different way home. We turned so that we could walk along the beach line so that they could see some of that living area and what the ocean/beach looks like. As we were walking it began to rain so we got wet on our way home, which was ok with most of us because at that point we had been sweating. We got back at about 230, and I went down to visit Sonel and found out the funeral for Lovely was going to be at 4 and we were allowed to go, so I hung in recovery for a little bit and then went to the dining hall to check my email, but did not manage to get to do that because of all the people that want to use the internet from the medical team. So I just hung out chatting sports, the day’s activity, and other miscellaneous things with the computer line until it was time for the service. The service was a twofold new experience for me in that I had never been to a Haitian funeral before and I had never seen an infant casket before. Erin, me and about 20 of the medical team personnel went over to the service and it was quite an interesting experience because in Haiti instead of crying they wail and oh my do they wail. One lady even started to have a seizure. It was about a 40 minute service and then Janeil took the family and the casket to the mission cave, which I am assuming is a Mausoleum that the mission owns for situations like this. After the service it was just about time to get ready for dinner so I went back down to see Sonel and Flobear. After dinner, I had devotions, which I was really nervous about because I am not well versed in scripture nor am I a public speaker. It was ok though, I just read 1 Corinthians 13, and then had Tim close in prayer. After devotions there was another line for my computer usage, so it was chill and chat time for me. This lasted for the rest of the night, so I went to visit recovery again and Heaven’s waiting room for a while. Decided to try and go to bed early tonight, so it is 10 and I am going to bed. Peace
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Don't let him fool you!! He did an amazing job with his devotion!
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