Haiti, you are missed!

Haiti, as many of us P-Squaders have said, was really not at
all like we expected. The people and love these people had even though they had
just suffered a great earthquake is mind-blowing. To them, having to walk and
collect water every day is no big deal. In Grand Goave at least, they are
almost all related to every person, and they all truly take care of each other.
So much to learn from that community love.

As I sit here in Ireland, I am able to look back on the
month in Haiti and really reflect on some of the memories that I will never
forget [I most likely am spelling 90% of the names wrong 🙂 ]:

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All of the other missionaries we met at the
beach that I spoke about in my last blog, you are missed and loved!

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Woody rolling in mud and also wearing underwear
on her head while attempting to chug water for losing at speed uno

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The 60 plus houses we built or tarped for those
families!

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All of the orphans and other children who
touched my heart- EllyAnn, Tapheal, Aggin, ‘crazy’ Kitsha, Naomi, Chris love,
Macken Love,

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The English family!! Our goodbye party was
amazing, the boy band pictures were my favorite 🙂

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Chris love, and being able to pray over him and
his large hernia in his groan area (he is 2), which he desperately needs life
saving surgery for. I was able to give him an angel beanie baby to play with
and told him the angels were looking over him. Praise God for Word FM, who
donated the money needed to get him surgery!

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The staff at the beach: Nikolas “One
Love”, Marieyve, Carol, Noon noon, Jeffte, Cheriben, Felix “Feo”

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Swimming to the island and having a nice Haitian
letting us get in his boat on the way back before we drown! (we weren’t
literally going to drown mom…it was just getting tiring to swim against the
current :)!)

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Pooch…the dog who barked all throughout the
night, but also ran with me on my beach runs

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The construction/tarping crew: Pepe and how he
always got food everywhere he went, Daniel, Luke, Michelle

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Being able to run out and jump in the ocean
every day after work if we wanted to

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The giant jellyfish we scooped up out of where
we would swim 🙂

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Making juice

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Kenips

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Running out of water, no electricity, praying
for the generator to work at the office for internet

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The amazing other missionaries who left us so
much stuff…just like Christmas!!

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How amazing some people were in donating us some
money, thank you so much! You truly blessed our team.

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Scrambling to grab anything and everything left
out in the open when it would start raining out of no where.

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Sweating from my eyelids…that’s possible?!

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Waking up every morning to read the sweet things
some of my friends wrote on my tent 🙂

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Our prayer morning, where God revealed so much
about our team to me – Thanks God 🙂

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The forever long trip to Jacmel

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Walking through the river and getting so muddy
one time that you could no longer see my feet or tevas

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Watching Woody attempt to balance heavy objects
on her head like the women did

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Shannon stepping on a nail, Craig and I both
falling off a chair while tarping

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How Felix would show up EVERYWHERE. We never did
find his underground tunnels that we are convinced are there

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The crazy truck/bus/van/’machine’ rides

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The breathtaking sunsets and sunrises every day

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The lightning storms that you couldn’t help but
gasp. I have never seen anything spread across the sky like those lightening
strikes

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Many hours of Nerts, Speed uno, Mafia, and
various other card games

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The long treks up the mountain to the houses we
were tarping, but then the AMAZING view that greeted us.