We arrived in Haiti yesterday afternoon. Some people from the community picked us up in a bus owned by the church and brought us to Bayonnais along with 4 missionaries from the communities sister church in North Carolina.
The drive through the countryside offered a lot of time to take in Haiti. It was kind of surreal driving through slums, jungle, deforested dry farm land, fertile rice patties, roadside markets, and ocean coast all in the same drive.
The people of the community embraced us whole heartedly when we came in last night. We spent the evening taking with everyone and amusing and being amused by the children. I feel like they all know all of our names already and I'm struggling with the three I can remember. I got to play games with the kids last night, there was one like jacks that the kinds played with rocks that I'm terrible at, but I'll keep practicing :)
This morning we went to church with the community, it was great. I couldn't understand a word of the singing, but I was glad to worship the our Creator with them. One of the American
missionaries preached in English, which was translated in Creole by the pastor here. Kevin spoke on Matthew 25 and giving God all we have, a great way to start the week!
Today we are hiking out to the pipeline to do our first assessment of repairs being done already, I'm excited to finally see the site I've spent a semester designing for!
I got an update from my mom this morning to, Alex and Jake both did great at Wausau, winning the first and third events respectively!! Great job guys, I'm so proud of you!
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